=================================================================== The IRAQWAR.RU analytical center was created recently by a group of journalists and military experts from Russia to provide accurate and up-to-date news and analysis of the war against Iraq. The following is the English translation of the IRAQWAR.RU report based on the Russian military intelligence reports =================================================================== The following are excerpts from these reports, english translations can be found at: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news078.htm *According to [Russian military] intelligence Pentagon made a decision to significantly reinforce the coalition. During the next two weeks up to 50,000 troops and no less than 500 tanks will arrive to the combat area from the US military bases in Germany and Albania. By the end of April 120,000 more troops and up to 1,200 additional tanks will be sent to support the war against Iraq. * Over 60% of all available spare parts have been already used and emergency additional supplies are being requested. *The sand is literally "eating up" the equipment. Sand has a particularly serious effect on electronics and transmissions of combat vehicles. Already more than 40 tanks and up to 69 armored personnel carriers have been disabled due to damaged engines; more than 150 armored vehicles have lost the use of their heat-seeking targeting sights and night vision equipment. 3rd Motorized Infantry Division had more than 100 vehicles disabled. *The coalition command has effectively acknowledged its defeat in the information war with the strikes against the television center in Baghdad and now further strikes should be expected against television and ground satellite transmitters *During a meeting at the coalition command headquarters it was reported that up to 20 Iraqi reconnaissance units are active behind the coalition rear. *Aerial bombardment of Baghdad has so far failed to produce the expected results. All targets designated before the war have been hit 3 to 7 times, but this had almost no effect on the combat readiness of the Iraqi army, their air defenses or the command and control structures. *A particular point of concern for the US command is the huge overuse of precision-guided munitions and cruise missiles. Already the supply of heavy cruise missiles like the "Tomahawk" has been reduced by a third and, at the current rate of use, in three weeks the US will be left only with the untouchable strategic supply of these missile

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Hi there, In response to the desperate call of the wild to have a flame, Allow me to raise some points: Being computer science and IT students and professionals, does the 'probelm solving skills' and other skills that we boast about help us in any way to strive for Justice in this world? Does the spirit of debugging systems and applications extend to interest us into debugging the world and finding or at least struggling to an ideal that we might know or not? I was watching a documentry about El Che: Ernesto Che Guevara. The (apparently) famous revolutionary who became aware of the failure of capitalism and the soviet communism to provide real justice. A medical doctor who abandod a life of luxury, same with castro a laywer who abandod the easy life, and finally Bin Laden who, to say the least, is an interesting character in the sense of abandoning the luxury of his wealthy family and the girls of Monaco and Italy he used to visit. Why did they abandon the luxury to pursue hardship for an idea they believed in? I personally disagree with all there they ideas they strived for, But i have to respect the calibre of men and women who are willing to die for their ideas. Karl Marx died spreading a messed ideology that says ur life ends like any cockroach u step on. It doesn't matter what you did in this life, so why did he leave the luxury to hardship? I ask to know, and to answer un-answered quetions i have: Whenever we have lecture at school about justice or kids dying in Iraq there is complete apathy in the eng and cs faculties. I don't remeber a leader who is an Eng or a CS guy, all have some artsie-background or something like that. Why are we so apathetic? Does our field eradicate if not at least isolate our human feelings and desire for a better world to materialize into this life for a search? Or is this all 60's pot talk? Let us know, Geeks especially are requested to step forward and talk :confused: small minds dicuss things and ppl, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas ( or something like that ;)