The US meanwhile continued its military build-up in the Gulf, ordering a further 15,000 troops, specialised in desert warfare, to the region. US and British aircraft on 1 January bombed an Iraqi mobile radar system near al-Qurnah, saying in a statement that the facility posed a threat to allied planes. The Iraqis claimed that a civilian installation had been hit and that one person had been killed.
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