Even Fiji Asked to Send its Troops by the U.S.

U.S. troops become spiteful: U.S. troops launched its second Ivy Cyclone II strategy around the midwestern part of Iraq on November 16.

This operation started after the worst accident occurred when 22 soldiers were killed or wounded from a collision between two Black Hawk helicopters while trying to avoid missile attacks in Mosul, located in the northern part of Iraq. As a signal for the beginning of the operation, the U.S. troops fired its satellite-induced strategic war missile, ATACS, at a place 25 kilometers west of Kirkur, which is assumed to be a center for the rebellion forces. The missile was fired for the first time since the U.S. announced an end to the war back in May.

Iraq’s Supreme Administrator Paul Bremer said determinedly, “We will not run away like chickens.”

Rebellion forces acting like guerillas: However, the second war with the rebellion forces is likely to be elongated. The weekly magazine, Time, reported in its recent edition that the rebellion forces have been reorganizing themselves into an army using guerilla strategies. Their media of attacks has evolved from small guns and portable rocket shooter to bomb guns and remote-controlling bomb shells, and their guerilla warfare, taking and using weapons disposed by the U.S. troops and hiding them in a village to avoid arrests, is making it more difficult for the U.S. troops to round them up.

Meanwhile, the U.S., having difficulties in persuading other nations to send their troops, asked the small island nation of Fiji, located in the South Pacific with some 820,000 population, to send its troops. AFP Network quoted the American ambassador to Fiji, David Ryan, as saying, “The U.S. hopes that Fiji will be able to send its troops to help maintain peace in Iraq.”

Sung-Kyu Kim kimsk@donga.com