There has (long) been empathy among Jordanians for insurgent strikes against military targets in Iraq, particularly against U.S. forces,

Such equipment in the hands of Iraq may pose a direct military threat to U.S. and coalition armed forces. We thus have raised the issue with the Russian government a number of times, including at senior levels, and particularly in the last two weeks.

One of the biggest differences in Baghdad, and throughout Iraq... is that the Iraqi military is doing really well, and they're taking over more pieces of the mission. The second biggest difference that I see [between now and three years ago] is the infrastructure issue.

Iraq began destroying those missiles they don't have over the weekend. See, President Bush may be the smartest military president in history. First, he gets Iraq to destroy all of their own weapons. Then he declares war.

U.S.-France military ties have always been good, except for a brief period when Rumsfeld sought payback over Iraq. And more generally, there's even an effort to mend fences at a political level.

With the military activities in Afghanistan and Iraq, it comes as no surprise that you would have additional assets in play to help with the collection of intelligence for the purpose of military targeting.