11.   American officials said that the Iraqi troops were bringing ample supplies of ammunition and added that Iraq was imposing rationing in apparent anticipation of a crisis.

12.   American officials here repeated their position on Tuesday that after the Iraqi troop buildup in recent days, President Saddam Hussein has little credibility on any score.

13.   American officials this week repeated their longstanding threat to attack any Iraqi troops south of that line.

14.   And Washington rejected the idea, wanting to separate Iraqi troop withdrawals entirely from the issue of sanctions.

15.   Armed with little more than assault rifles and machine guns, the Kurds rose up against Iraqi troops and for a few days controlled much of the north.

16.   Barzani insisted again Tuesday that no Iraqi troops or equipment had joined in his operations since the assault on Erbil.

17.   Badran said the offices of his group, the Iraqi National Accord, were among the first destroyed by Iraqi troops last weekend.

18.   A plan allowing Iraq to export oil was suspended by the United Nations after Iraqi troops attacked a Kurdish minority group two weeks ago.

19.   Bush and his advisers also worried about the perception, growing by the hour, that U.S. forces were needlessly slaughtering retreating Iraqi troops.

20.   Bush made it clear from the beginning that the mission was to drive Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.