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Not every part of the Pentagon's war plan to topple Saddam Hussein's regime is winning rave reviews, and one target of ridicule these days is the Defense Department's efforts to mold Iraqi exiles into a viable fighting force. In an initiative that morphed into a cross between a Monty Python sketch and the Keystone Kops, the Pentagon worked with two exile groups with maddeningly similar names, the Free Iraqi Freedom Fighters (FIFF) and the Free Iraqi Forces (FIF). The FIF were Iraqis trained in Hungary by the United States before the war. The Pentagon boasted that it would recruit 3,000...

May 14, 2003Release Number: 03-05-46 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COALITION FORCES PROVIDE SECURITY AND STABILITY CAMP DOHA, Kuwait – Coalition Forces continue to actively patrol Iraq to make it safe to conduct Humanitarian Assistance operations. Recent incidents highlight the dangerous nature of their work: Unknown assailants in a vehicle shot at 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division personnel by a power sub-station in Baghdad with AK-47s early this morning. No injuries were reported. Unknown assailants fired two rocket-propelled grenades at a building used by the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment near Fallujah early this morning. Two soldiers received minor injuries. A...