[Amelia]

A simple search through the Yahoo! news site shows that we bombed some of these fiber-optic facilities the Chinese were helping to build back in February, and in the past two weeks we've bombed both a communications bunker and an air command & control center.

There might be some truth to this report...and I'd suspect there's LOTS more going on than they are telling us.

[section9]

As if on cue, a story on Saddam's palaces was published in The New York Post today. In its last paragraph, the story went:

U.S. and coalition allies are intensifying preparations. Extensive equipment pre-positioning and expansion projects are under way at bases in Qatar, southern Kuwait and Turkey. Preliminary work also is being be done at an abandoned secret air base inside a Kurdish-controlled region, sources said.

(emphasis added)

Saddam knows this is going on. He has adopted a waiting game, it seems. However, this opens him up to salami tactics.

Be Seeing You,

Chris