Our UK correspondent reports that, unknown to the UK public, 20000 UK troops are being readied to join in on the up and coming US attack on Saddam Hussein. Tanks are being prepared, and UK military leaders are suggesting they will be involved even heavier than they were in Desert Storm one.
Perhaps someone is not happy about Saddam's claims that the Gulf War was a victory for Iraq? Meanwhile 60000 Taliban forces have dug in for the winter apparently preparing themselves for continuous guerilla type attacks on the US-Afghan force that hold the capital cities.
Military production in the US is set to boom over the next 12 months but there are also going to be a lot of unhappy and desperate people.