A March 27 program sent to legislators featured a long segment on tensions along the Kuwait-Iraq border.

It included attacks on artillery, a major psychological operations campaign, and the positioning of ground troops along the Kuwait-Iraq border.

Their first encounter was on the Kuwait-Iraq border in the spring of 2003, before the military bombing campaign began.

Q. General, are you going to pursue the Iraqi soldiers into Iraq, or are you going to stop at the Kuwait-Iraq border?

Among the units most heavily attacked were the 120,000-strong Republican Guard formations - Iraq's most effective troops - which were entrenched near the Kuwait-Iraq border.

Among the shattered Iraqi forces only the Republican Guard was reported to be standing firm north of the Kuwait-Iraq border.

The general, accompanied by more than a dozen members of his headquarters staff, will lead a 1,440-member contingent monitoring 120 miles of the Kuwait-Iraq border.

In 1993 the UN demarcated the new Kuwait-Iraq border, awarding a port and a number of oil wells to Kuwait.

The State Department reported that Iraqi troops had taken six American oilfield workers into custody near the Kuwait-Iraq border.

The idea is that it could supervise an Iraqi withdrawal or police the Kuwait-Iraq border if Saddam Hussein ordered a pull-out.