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http://www.showmenews.com/2003/Dec/20031213News017.asp
U.S. borrows Israeli tactics in Iraq
Officials on both sides admit to 'cooperation.'
Published Saturday, December 13, 2003
JERUSALEM (AP) - In fighting insurgents in Iraq, the United States is
drawing on some of Israel's methods and experiences in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip, including running checkpoints and tracking militants with drone
aircraft, Israeli officials say.
Israeli and U.S. security experts have met repeatedly in recent months to
discuss urban warfare and Israel's lessons from its grueling three-year
fight against Palestinian militants.
In public comments, Israeli and U.S. officials acknowledge "strategic
cooperation" and confirm high-level meetings, the most recent one last week
in Tel Aviv. However, they play down the contacts as routine, apparently for
fear the Arab world will be outraged.
Recent U.S. methods in Iraq increasingly mimic those Israel uses in the West
Bank and Gaza - setting up impromptu checkpoints, keeping militants on the
defensive with frequent arrest raids and, in at least one case, encircling a
village and distributing travel permits.
An Israeli security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said
Israel has briefed the U.S. military on its frequent use of drones, or
unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, which allow officers at Israeli military
headquarters to watch operations in real time.
Israel uses drones to monitor targeted killings, often helicopter missile
attacks on fugitives' cars. Israel has killed at least 117 terror suspects
and 88 bystanders in targeted attacks.
The Israeli security official said Israel has taught the U.S. military how
to make use of intelligence information within minutes to attack a moving
target. The U.S. military has not formally adopted targeted killings, though
some wanted Iraqis have been killed in arrest raids.
A U.S. Army officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. troops
try to stay clear of methods that look like collective punishment. Israel
routinely demolishes the family homes of Palestinian attackers in hopes of
deterring future attacks.
The British newspaper The Guardian recently reported Israeli advisers are
training U.S. soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Lt. Col. Hans Bush, of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Command, said
there are no Israeli forces "currently teaching Army Special Operations
Command forces at Fort Bragg."
Last week, a large delegation from the Army Training and Doctrine Command in
Fort Monroe, Va., visited Israel. Harvey Perritt, the command's civilian
spokesman, said the meeting was routine, but would not elaborate.
The Israeli army said in a statement it does not comment on "ongoing
strategic cooperation between the U.S. and the Israeli military."
Israel did supply the United States a training video for troops to
illustrate an 11-point code on treating civilians, the rights of
international relief groups and other issues "very tied into ... the daily
dilemmas" of urban warfare, said Lt. Col. Amos Guiora, commander of the
Israeli army's school of military law. The Israeli military recently began
showing the video to its troops, amid persistent Palestinian complaints of
mistreatment by soldiers.
An Israeli security source said U.S. officers have visited a mock-up of an
Arab town used for Israeli training. Earlier this year, Israeli and U.S.
troops held joint exercises in Israel's Negev Desert, focusing on air
defenses.
Brig. Gen. Michael Vane, deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Army's Training
and Doctrine Command, acknowledged in a letter to Army Magazine in July that
"we recently traveled to Israel to glean lessons learned from their
counter-terrorist operations in urban areas."
Martin Van Creveld, an Israeli military expert, warned that just as Israel
has been unsuccessful in eliminating militant groups and suicide bombers,
the United States cannot expect to be victorious in Iraq.
"The Americans are coming here to try to mimic all kinds of techniques, but
it's not going to do them any good."
In Iraq, the Americans have a more difficult task than Israel's in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, Van Creveld said. Iraq is larger, the borders are open
and there is almost unlimited access to arms.
"I don't see how on Earth" the Americans "can win. I think this is going to
end the same way Vietnam did," Van Creveld said. "They are going to flee the
country hanging on the strings of helicopters," he added, referring to the
1973 U.S. departure from Saigon.
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