VOL. XLV

No 38

23-September-2002

Arab Press Review

(MEES Translation)

30,000 US Troops Already In Iraq

The following article entitled OperationDesert Slices, by SalamahNi 'mat, al-Hayat's formercorrespondent in Jordan, now in London, was published in al-Hayat on 16September:

Around 100US/UK jet fighters10 days ago bombed and destroyed airbases H-3 andal-Baghdadi in western Iraq,close to the Jordanian border. Earlier, on 5 August, the allied forcesdestroyed an air defense base in southwest Iraq,near...