- America has just lost the war with Saddam.
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- Its battle fleet in the Gulf was blown out of the water
with Sidewinder missiles. Al-Quaeda terrorists staged suicide attacks on
US carriers. Thirteen thousand crack American troops were decimated.
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- Using what the Pentagon called "surprise and unorthodox
tactics", Saddam won a resounding victory.
- It was the biggest war game in history. But the results
have sent panic bells ringing in the Pentagon.
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- Now the officer who played "Saddam" has blown
the whistle - adding red faces to the panic buttons.
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- General Paul "Saddam" Van Riper - a tough-talking
much-decorated Marine - has now heaped further embarrassment on Bush's
military chiefs by castigating "Exercise Millennium Challenge"
as one that did not "auger well for the future".
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- And - perhaps the worst crime of all in any war game
designed to test the readiness of soldiers, Van Rider accused the US "enemy"
he "well and truly whipped" of cheating.
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- "Saddam" says that in "the most expensive
ever war game - costing $250 million - US ships were "raised from
their watery graves in the Gulf and allowed back in to join the fight against
me"."
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- Dead "troops" wiped out on computers were "ordered
back to life", said Van Rider in Washington.
- "Saddam's" electronic defences were ordered
to be switched off by senior Pentagon officers refereeing the war game.
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- "Then I was told to use cell phones to communicate.
Crazy".
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- Worse was to follow. As the remnants of the US forces
struggled to make amphibious landings - all on computer simulations - "Saddam"
was ordered, he said, to "look the other way so the US troops could
get ashore. If I hadn't obeyed, we would have stopped them dead in their
tracks".
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- "Saddam" had at his disposal a computer generated
fleet of small boats and replicas of Saddam's somewhat outmoded aircraft.
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- He mobilised them to attack the US fleet "by sending
a coded message in Arabic from the minarets of mosques at the call to prayer".
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- Watching from his electronic command console, Van Riper
felt a sense of "astonishment" how his ploy worked.
"Sixteen ships were sunk at once. Thousands of marines died. If this
had really happened, it would have been the worst naval disaster since
Pearl Harbour", said Van Riper.
The exercise ended a month ago. But until yesterday the Pentagon have kept
a tight lid on the outcome.
Admiral Cutler Dawson, the commander of the "computer fleet"
and in real life the man who will help launch the US forthcoming naval
attack on Iraq, admitted yesterday that "some things worked, some
things didn't. That's how you learn from a war game".
But Van Riper has ridiculed the whole war game as "rubbish. My own
concern is that our forces showed they are just not yet ready".
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