[Mo1]

A large-scale military exercise ??? ... sure ok .. sounds good to me ..

[JDGreen123]

Also this from the June 30 Sacramento Bee. This is posetd on their site so I guess it is o.k. to report:

About 3,300 American troops are in Qatar - Freshly paved runways and aircraft parking ramps stretch deep into the desert. Al-Udeid's (airfield) main, 15,000-foot runway is the longest in the region and can handle the largest Air Force transport planes.

Nearly 10,000 U.S. Army soldiers are at Camp Doha in Kuwait

4,200 troops are in Bahrain, headquarters for the Navy's 5th Fleet.

Several thousand are in Saudi Arabia and a few thousand in Oman.

U.S. quietly bolsters forces in Qatar desert

And then there is Turkey: U.S. helps Turkey prepare for offensive against Iraq

And from today's Arab News (Saudi Arabia): US readies for strike, tries to move heavy arms to Red Sea

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

A large-scale military exercise ??? ... sure ok .. sounds good to me ..M

Why not some target practice using Saaaadam's palaces?