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Commander of U.S. forces
wants more troops in Iraq
I wo more brigades ot troops
have been requested to help
put an end to the bloodiest
episode since Baghdad fell
By Matthew Schofield
and Drew Brown
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The com
mander of U.S. forces in the Middle
East said Monday that he'd request
ed two more brigades of troops, per
haps as many as 14,000 soldiers, to
help quell the worst outbreak of
fighting in Iraq since the American
led occupation began more than a
year ago.
Evidence showing that coalition
forces were losing control of the roads
in Iraq mounted Monday as another
supply convoy was set ablaze and offi
cials announced that nine more
Americans were missing.
U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt
said that 70 coalition personnel and
roughly 700 Iraqis had died since
April 1, making the past 12 days the
deadliest since Baghdad fell a year
ago. The military reported Monday
that three Marines near Fallujah and a
soldier in Samarra, 60 miles north of
Baghdad, were killed Sunday, even as
a cease-fire in the embattled city gen
erally held.
In an e-mail, a defense contractor
who asked not to be named said the
situation was getting worse, and that
while the coalition controlled pockets
within Iraq, the rebels "own the
roads."
Gen. John Abizaid, head of U.S. Cen
tral Command, which handles opera
tions in the Middle East refused to say
in a teleconference Monday how many
more troops would be needed in Iraq
or how long they would stay. He said
that he was requesting "a strong,
mobile combat-arms capability of
"two brigades worth of combat power,
if not more." A mechanized combat
brigade generally numbers anywhere
from 5,000 to 7,000 troops.
It wasn't immediately clear whether
the two additional brigades would
come from fresh units in the United
States or forces already in Iraq and
Kuwait but scheduled to come home,
senior defense officials said. Abizaid
said that he was working out the de
tails of the request with the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and he refused to say
which units were under considera
tion.
Seven American contract workers
and two American soldiers were miss
ing after their convoy came under at
tack Friday. Seven Chinese were re
leased Monday after a day of captivity
followed their entry into the country
from Jordan. Three Japanese hostages
captured Thursday weren't released,
contrary to a Japanese news report
Sunday, and their fate remained un
certain throughout the day.
The latest kidnappings raised totals
to more than 40 people from 12 dif
ferent countries taken in the past
week.
Contractor Kellogg, Brown & Root,
a Halliburton subsidiary, confirmed
that seven of its employees were miss
ing, including Thomas Hamill, 42,
who's known to be kidnapped. The
company said that it was continuing
to send several hundred employees
per week to Kuwait and Iraq.
Also on Monday, an Iraqi police car
in Baqouba hit a homemade bomb.
An internal coalition security memo
noted that an Apache helicopter shot
down Sunday was the seventh aircraft
shot down or sustaining "effective
small-arms fire in the last four days,"
including five in Baghdad. Eight con
voy trucks have been destroyed since
Sunday in the capital on the road to
Baghdad International Airport.
Kimmitt noted that the situation in
Iraq wasn't "business as usual."
"There are people out there taking
hostages, kidnapping people," he
said. "But we are restoring a tremen
dous amount of order."
He added that the number of coali
tion engagements with the enemy last
week was two or three times above
normal and that the coalition was
concerned about the enemy's ability
to strike convoys.
Still, President Bush said in a news
conference in Texas that the situation
in Iraq was improving, "after a bad
week."
The cease-fire in Fallujah, the site of
much of the most intense fighting last
week, seemed to hold for a third day.
The Marines added another battalion
of infantry Sunday, and Monday there
were 2,000 Marines in and around
the city, taking occasional drive-by
fire.
Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, com
mander of American forces in Iraq,
said in the teleconference that U.S.
forces had retaken Kut and Nasiriyah
in southern Iraq. He acknowledged
that Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al
Sadr's militia still controlled Najaf
and parts of Karbala — both Shiite
spiritual centers — though he said
that coalition forces had cordoned off
both cities in preparation for moving ’
against Sadr, who is believed to be in
Najaf.
"The mission of the U.S. forces is to i
kill or capture Muqtada al Sadr. That's
our mission," he said.
(c) 2004, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services. Schofield reported
from Baghdad, Brown from Washington.
Knight Ridder Newspapers
correspondents Patrick Peterson in
Camp Fallujah, Iraq, and Seth
Borenstein in Washington contributed to
this report.
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Ban on Ephedra now in effect
A request for a restraining
order was rejected outright
by a federal judge Monday
By Michael O’keeffe
New York Daily News (KRT)
NEW YORK — The nationwide ban
on ephedra went into effect Monday af
ter a federal judge in Newark refused to
grant a temporary restraining order re
quested by two supplement companies.
NVE Pharmaceuticals of New Jersey
and the Alabama-based National In
stitute for Clinical Weight Loss argued
that the FDA has not provided suffi
cient evidence that ephedra poses un
reasonable health risks to consumers.
The companies also said that the FDA
violated federal regulations and their
due process rights by banning the am
phetamine-like product used to boost
energy and lose weight.
But U.S. District Judge Joel Pisano
said that the companies failed to meet
several legal requirements for the re
straining order. The companies failed
to prove that they are likely to win a
court challenge to the ban and that
they would suffer irreparable harm if
the ban took effect.
The Food and Drug Administration
took its first steps toward banning the
herbal stimulant in March 2003, short
ly after Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve
Bechler died. His death — and at least
154 others — has been linked to
ephedra. The FDA announced in De
cember that it would ban the stimulant
"Steve Bechler's death was the turn
ing point," said anti-ephedra activist
Barb Michal, whose petition to inter
vene in the case was denied by Pisano.
Ephedra is the first dietary supple
ment banned by the FDA. The Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act
of 1994 allows manufacturers to sell
supplements without testing them first
for safety. Consumer advocates say that
the law must be revised because the
FDA can't remove a product from retail
shelves unless it can prove that it is dan
gerous. Bitter orange, an ingredient in
many ephedra-free weight loss prod
ucts, has been linked to seven deaths.
Ephedra sales have already plummet
ed because of publicity about the risks,
especially after Bechler's death. Many
companies stopped selling the product
because of skyrodceting insurance costs,
lawsuits and increased government reg
ulation. Three states - New York, Illinois
and California - already prohibit the
stimulant The Illinois ban was prompt
ed in part by the death of Sean Riggins, a
Lincoln, 111. high school student whose
death was linked by a medical examiner
to Yellow Jacket, an ephedra product
sold by NVE Pharmaceuticals.
(c) 2004, New York Daily News.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
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