41.   Hospitals were placed on alert over the weekend as the U.S. responded to reports of Iraqi troop deployments with its own military movements to the Gulf.

42.   In a statement from its Washington office, the Patriotic Union said Iraqi troops backed by tanks had attacked its Kurdish loyalists.

43.   In the face of a huge Iraqi troop deployment, Clinton had no choice except to act swiftly and decisively.

44.   In the Gulf War, ground troops were needed at the end of weeks of bombing to force Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.

45.   In the months since Iraqi troops stormed into the Kurdish enclave, the United States has been trying to reassert its influence on the ground.

46.   In the Persian Gulf war, the United States had six months to build up a force in Saudi Arabia before driving Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.

47.   Iraqi troops have killed five smugglers and wounded two dozen this year.

48.   Iraqi troops pushed the PUK from the main city of Irbil on Saturday and U.N. officials reported on Monday that all Iraqi units had withdrawn from the city.

49.   Iraqi troops intervened in a dispute between two Kurdish factions in Irbil in Northern Iraq over the weekend.

50.   Iraqi troops were forced to retreat from Kuwait to Baghdad.