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US reinforces with heavy armour, infantry

AFP, As-Saliyah
The United States is deploying its heaviest and most hi-tech divisions to Iraq amid mounting criticism that the initial attack lacked the shock and power to bring a quick end to the war.
Deployment orders dating back to January, but as recently as early March, should see another 120,000 US troops pour into Iraq in the weeks ahead, in addition to the 90,000 who opened the battle 10 days ago.
The first to arrive in Kuwait will be the 4th Infantry Division (4ID), the US Army's first fully digitised division with the latest versions of Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Apache Longbow attack helicopters.
The 4ID will be followed by the 1st Armoured Division, the 1st Cavalry Division and the 2nd and 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiments -- heavy tank formations which could strike against the Soviet-built tanks of Iraq's Republican Guard defending Baghdad.
The deployments -- which the White House insists were ordered before the conflict began -- come as senior commanders concede the war is not going according to plan and may be longer than expected.
"The enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed against," the army's senior ground commander in Iraq, Lieutenant General William Wallace, told The Washington Post.
Diehard guerrillas and soldiers
disguised as civilians have harassed US supply lines and slowed the advance to Baghdad, and there have been no mass surrenders or popular uprisings as the Pentagon had hoped.
"The Bush administration misread the Iraqis," the New York Times said last week, criticizing what it described as a war plan that counted on the Iraqi defence collapsing everywhere except Baghdad.
The 4ID may not be ready to enter the battle for more than a week, but despite the ominous news from the front the troops said they were eager to prove the combat effectiveness of their new technology.
"The morale here remains quite high. We've been watching events unfold on the news like everybody else and we're eager to get over there and help out our brothers in arms, " said Captain Russell Corwin, an artillery officer.
"There are no warmongers here, but if it's going to happen, we want to be there because we are confident in ourselves, in our equipment, and in our leadership."
The division's task force -amounting to some 30,000 personnel -- was due to invade Iraq from Turkey in the north, but those plans have been shelved by Turkey's anti-war parliament.
A map of northern Iraq, complete with arrows marking proposed lines of advance, hung in the division headquarters at Fort Hood back in the United States only two weeks ago.