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The Black Watch regiment
is to be sent from the relative safety of the area around Basra
in the South of Iraq, up to the more dangerous region west of
Baghdad to provide cover for a much-heralded US army assault
on the rebel stronghold of Falluja. It is widely suspected in
the UK that this military decision has a crude political facet
to it - to present evidence to an amnesiac and news-starved US
electorate that there really is a coalition operating in Iraq,
not just the US army, thereby elevating Dubya's electoral chances
at this sensitive time.
The Guardian; Monday
18/10/04 |
