London, Mar 30: US-British forces can adjust their tactics to cope with suicide attacks, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, General Richard Myers, said today, aday after the first successful kamikaze attack on soldiers in the Iraq war.
"I think we can adjust our tactics and techniques and the
procedures we use to overcome that threat," Myers said in an
interview with David Frost.
He said suicide attacks were "not a technique that's
unknown".
"Clearly the British are familiar with that, what they've
been dealing with in the last couple of decades in various
parts of the world. We're familiar with that," Myers said.
Yesterday, a taxi driver set off a bomb at a roadblock in
central Iraq, killing four US soldiers in the first successful
suicide attack on troops in the 11-day US and British drive to
topple the regime of President Saddam Hussein.
The attack was directed against members of the US 3rd
Army Division massing around Najaf -- a Shiite Muslim holy
city about 160 km south of Baghdad -- for a decisive push
toward Saddam's seat of power.
It threatened to complicate the already laborious
advance of the US and British troops.
Myers called the attack "a reminder that there are some
very desperate people out there and we have to be on our
toes".
Bureau Report
