U.S. troops get deployment orders

WASHINGTON, SEPT. 21. Army troops in New York and Texas received orders today to be deployed as the U.S. preparations for military action against the terrorists who attacked New York and Washington intensified.

The latest deployment orders went to the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York and to units at Fort Hood, Texas, headquarters of the Third Army Corps and home of two heavy army divisions, a senior Defence official said on condition of anonymity.

More Air Force planes were ordered to join a build-up of American firepower in the Gulf area. Fewer than a dozen aircraft, including B-52 bombers and refuelling planes, were covered by the order, which followed the deployment earlier this week of more than 100 combat and support aircraft.

- AFP, AP

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