Pentagon officials announced Thursday the US would more than double its ranks inside Iraq, with 120,000 troops ready to join the 90,000 already on the ground.
Both sides were now bracing for the climax of the US-led offensive against Saddam's regime, when allied troops eventually reach Baghdad and decide whether to lay siege to the city or invade it and face the horrors of what some analysts say could be "another Beirut."
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