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U.S. expects long-term access to Iraq bases
New York Times
Apr. 20, 2003 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON - The United States is planning a long-term military relationship with the emerging government of Iraq, one that would grant the Pentagon access to military bases and project U.S. influence into the heart of the unsettled region, senior Bush administration officials say.

U.S. military officials, in interviews last week, spoke of maintaining perhaps four bases in Iraq that could be used in the future: one at the international airport just outside Baghdad; at Tallil, near Nasiriyah in the south; at an isolated airstrip called H-1 in the western desert, along the old oil pipeline that runs to Jordan; and at the Bashur air field in the Kurdish north.

Whether that can be arranged depends on relations between Washington and whoever takes control in Baghdad. If the ties are close enough, the military relationship could become one of the most striking developments in a strategic revolution now playing out across the Middle East and Southwest Asia, from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean.

A military foothold in Iraq would be felt across the border in Syria, and, in combination with the continuing U.S. presence in Afghanistan, it would virtually surround Iran with a new web of U.S. influence.

"There will be some kind of a long-term defense relationship with a new Iraq, similar to Afghanistan," one senior administration official said. "The scope of that has yet to be defined, whether it will be full-up operational bases, smaller forward operating bases or just plain access."

In a particularly important development, officials said the United States was likely to reduce U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia as well.

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