AFRICAN DANCE
Lauren Wimer Photographer
(Top photo) Senior dance major Jillian Kacalek dances to the beat of Glenn Bonney’s drum during
rehearsal for the University's Dance Africa ensemble. (Right photo) Brothers Mawuenyega Mensah (left)
and Maputo Mensah collaborated with the group for the production, which will be performed at 8 tonight in
the Gerlinger Annex. The brothers, originally from the West African nation of Ghana, and the University
ensemble put together the show in one week, requiring three hours of rehearsal every night. The Mensahs
head the Logo Ligi performance troupe in Boulder, Colo. For ticket information, call 346-3386.
Nation & World News
Rumsfeld says Iraqi forces will be relied on more
The Secretary of Defense's
new rotation plan calls for
deploying another 46,700
U.S. reservists to the region
By Richard Whittle
The Dallas Morning News (KRT)
WASHINGTON — Rejecting calls
for more U.S. troops in Iraq, Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld unveiled
a new rotation plan Thursday that
would lower the number there to
105,000 from 130,000 by May.
Freshly minted Iraqi security forces
and U.S. reservists will be relied on
more heavily in the fight against Sad
dam Hussein loyalists and Islamic
militants under the plan.
"The U.S. footprint will depend
on the security situation, which is
continually being reassessed by the
commanders on the ground," Rums
feld told a Pentagon news briefing.
"I have not been told of a single
military commander ... in Iraq who
is recommending additional U.S.
military forces — not one."
The announcement of the new
plan, which includes the deployment
of a division of Marines to ease the
burden on the Army, came a day after
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called on
the administration to add 20,000
troops to the 130,000 there now.
"The simple truth is that we do
not have sufficient forces in Iraq to
meet our military objectives," Mc
Cain asserted. "Prematurely placing
the burden of security on Iraqis is
not the answer."
About 115,700 Iraqis are either on
duty or being trained in one of five
security forces created by the U.S.
led Coalition Provisional Authority,
Pentagon officials said. Those in
clude police, a new Iraqi army, bor
der guards, facility guards and a civil
defense corps.
Iraqi security forces are projected
to grow to 200,000 or more by the
time the U.S. rotation plan is in ef
fect next spring.
"While the number of U.S. forces
may be level or decline slightly, this
much is certain: The overall capabil
ity of the security forces in Iraq will
increase," Rumsfeld declared.
"As other countries consider de
ployments, as they are, the total
number of coalition forces, includ
ing Iraqi security forces, clearly will
grow, as it has been growing every
month for the past three or four
months," he said.
Air Force Lt. Gen. Norton
Schwartz, director for operations on
the Pentagon's Joint Staff, said the
reduction in U.S. forces would
mainly cut support personnel rather
than combat troops.
"We are going from seven bridg
ing companies to two because we're
contracting out some of the bridging
requirements," Lt. Gen. Schwartz
said. "We are going from a larger
number of truck units to a smaller
number because we are contracting
some of that out."
About 85,000 active duty, Re
serves and National Guard troops —
including a division of Marines —
already have been alerted that they
will be sent to Iraq, Rumsfeld said.
Another 46,700 reservists will get
notices soon, with 3,700 of those
slated for tours in Afghanistan and
43,000 in Iraq.
"These figures comprise the ma
jority of the Guard and Reserve
forces, both Army and Marine, that
will be alerted, but we can expect
some additional Army alerts in the
period ahead," Rumsfeld said.
Those scheduled to go to Iraq in
clude about 37,000 Army Reserves
and 6,000 Marine Reserves, Lt. Gen.
Schwartz said.
Reservists and National Guard
troops account for about 28,000 of
the 130,000 U.S. military personnel
in Iraq at the moment, he said. By
May, the total is expected to be
105,000, of whom 66,000 would be
active duty troops and 39,000 Re
servists and National Guard.
Lt. Gen. Schwartz said the in
creased reliance on Reserves and Na
tional Guard troops was necessary
because, "We are at war. This is not
peacetime."
Most personnel sent to Iraq will
serve one-year tours, officials said,
but the Marines will rotate two con
tingents of about 21,000 members
who will serve seven-month tours,
said Marine Corps. Lt. Gen. Jan
Muly, deputy commandant for
plans, policy and operations.
As announced last summer, the
Army's 1st Cavalry Division from
Fort flood, Texas, reinforced by the
39th Army National Guard infantry
brigade from Arkansas, will replace
the 1st Armored Division in Bagh
dad by April.
The 1st Infantry Division, based in
Germany, will replace the Fort Hood
based 4th Infantry Division, whose
Iraq headquarters is in Tikrit, former
dictator Hussein's hometown.
Reinforced by 30th Army Nation
al Guard infantry brigade — with
troops from North Carolina, West
Virginia and New York — and the
3rd Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Di
vision from Washington state, the
1st Infantry also will take over for
the 101st Airborne Division in
northern Iraq.
More than 90 percent of attacks
on U.S. forces in Iraq have occurred
in an area between Baghdad and
Tikrit and to the west known as the
Sunni Triangle.
The Army's original plan had been
for a new division of foreign troops
— possibly from Turkey — to replace
the 101st Airborne, which is head
quartered in the relatively peaceful
northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
But the administration so far has
declined to accept a Turkish offer of
up to 10,000 troops because of ob
jections by some members of the
Iraqi Governing Council who are
leaders of the Kurdish minority in
northern Iraq.
The 1st Marine Division will re
place the Army's 82nd Airborne Di
vision, whose area of responsibility
includes Fallujah — a hotbed of
Hussein loyalists and attacks on U.S.
forces — and areas west.
The division will be reinforced by
elements of the 2nd Marine Divi
sion and Marine Reserves, including
helicopter and C-130 transport air
craft units, Lt. Gen. Huly said.
Senate Armed Services Committee
member lack Reed, D-R.I., a former
Army Ranger who has urged expand
ing the active duty Army, said the ro
tation plan was "not based on long
term planning, but rather another
ad-hoc effort to cobble together
units to send to Iraq."
"The administration is ignoring
the reality of an over-committed
armed forces in order to meet their
own promises to reduce troops in
Iraq by next year," Reed said.
Other critics have warned that the
necessity of calling up Reserves and
National Guard troops for haz
ardous duty is likely to persuade
many to leave the service after their
tours and dissuade others from join
ing. Rumsfeld said there was no evi
dence of that so far.
"At the moment, the latest reports
on recruiting and retention are posi
tive,' he said. "That is to say, we do
not see at the moment that the situa
tion in Iraq or Afghanistan, or the
general level of tempo that's taking
place around the world, is adversely
affecting those indicators."
(c) 2003, The Dallas Morning News.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/
Tribune Information Services.
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