The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 2, 2001 - 7 U.S. having trouble getting more troops on ground in Afghanistan the michigan daily The Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - More U.S. com- mandos will be sent into Afghanistan to assist anti-Taliban forces and call in American airstrikes, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday, but he conceded that weather and hostile fire have been impediments to putting additional troops on the ground. "We're going to be adding people," Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon. "I'd like to see as soon as humanly pos- sible the numbers of teams go up by three or four times. Rumsfeld said that the harsh weather in northern Afghanistan, the lack of the right equipment and landing zones, as well as hostile fire, have prevented more commandos from heading into the northern part of the country. Fewer than 100 Army commandos are now operating in the country, mili- tary officers said. They refused to be more specific. "We have a number of teams cocked and ready to go," Rumsfeld said, but in one case "the ground fire was simply too heavy to unload the folks. And so they went back and they'll try to do it again in a different landing area." Meanwhile, the Defense secretary forcefully responded to complaints from some lawmakers and retired senior offi- cers that the pace of the military cam- paign is too slow. The United States started its military campaign against the Taliban regime and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror- ist network less than one month after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, Rumsfeld said, reading from a statement. , "Since that time, roughly three weeks, coalition forces have flown over 2,000 sorties, broadcast 300-plus hours of radio transmissions, delivered an amazing 1,030,000 humanitarian rations to starving people," he said. "Today is November 1. And if you think about it, the smoke at this very moment is still rising out of the ruins of the World Trade Center." National Security Adviser Con- doleezza Rice said yesterday that the public and U.S. allies will have to be patient. "The president said this is going to be a long war," she told reporters at the White House. Rice also said more clearly than other administration officials that the U.S.-led military campaign will not be curtailed in deference to Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that begins in mid-Novem- ber. "This is an enemy that has to be taken on, and taken on aggressively, and pressed to the end," she said. "We can't afford to have a pause." Meanwhile, Rumsfeld flatly denied claims that the United States initially had restrained its bombing campaign while trying to fashion a post-Taliban government. He called such statements "absolutely false" But some officials in the Pentagon and the State Department have said pri- vately there was a go-slow approach in regard to supporting the Northern Alliance, which is opposed by Pakistan, the key U.S. ally in the region. 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Turkey announced that it would dispatch 90 special forces troops to help train the Northern Alliance, mak- ing it the third NATO member to commit ground troops to the war. The move came days after Britain announced that it was sending all its aircraft carriers and 4,200 special forces to the region. U.S. Marines lifted off the USS Peleliu yesterday in three helicopters on an undisclosed support mission, according to a media pool report from the amphibious assault ship in the Arabian Sea. The Pentagon has taken reporters to the Peleliu but imposed strict limits on what they can report and released no information come to doubt the wisdom of taking on the strength and power of this nation and the resolve of her peo- ple," Rumsfeld said. "I expect that somewhere in a cave in Afghanistan there is a terrorist leader who is at this moment considering precisely the same thing." Briefing reporters at the Pentagon, Rumsfeld said that the presence of U.S. Special Forces on the ground in a liaison role with the Northern Alliance has greatly enhanced the U.S. military's ability to designate tar- gets and attack Taliban forces from the air. He said 80 percent of all sorties now being flown are in support of opposition forces in the north. Rumsfeld expressed frustration that more U.S. Spe- cial Forces are not already on the ground but said that on more than one occasion heavy Taliban ground fire kept troops from being loaded off their helicopters. "But we have a number of teams cocked and ready to go, it's just a matter of having the right kind of equipment to get them there in the landing zones in places where it's possible to get in and get out, and we expect that to happen - I've expected it to happen every day, and I'm sure it will in the days immediately ahead," Rumsfeld said. The use of B-52 bombers to drop cluster bombs on Taliban forces, Rumsfeld said, is "to try to kill them ... to be perfectly blunt." about specific operations. "In other American wars,E enemy commanders have A senior defense official confirmed that a JSTARS surveillance aircraft- the name stands for Joint Sur- veillance Target Attack Radar System - and an experimental Global Hawk unmanned surveillance drone had been moved to the region and would soon be flying missions over Afghanistan. The deployment of JSTARS signals that a major ground engagement is imminent, defense analysts said. "It basically gives you continuous surveillance of moving ground targets over a wide area," said John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a defense consult- ing company. On the northern plains surrounding the key city of Mazar-e Sharif, he said, "It would make it very diffi- cult for the Taliban to organize counter-attacks." 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