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— WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Units of the U.S Marine 1st Expeditionary Force have crossed from Kuwait into southern Iraq to begin securing positions for a thrust northward by U.S. and British troops massed in Kuwait near the border, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

But the officials, who asked not to be identified, cautioned that the troop move and a fresh wave of night bombing and cruise missile strikes on Baghdad did not represent a massive military attack predicted by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

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British Royal Marines practice contact drills arch 20, 2003 outside a British base in the desert of Kuwait. Units of the U.S. Marine 1st Expeditionary Force have crossed from Kuwait into southern Iraq to begin securing positions for a thrust northward by U.S. and British troops massed in Kuwait near the border, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. Photo by Reuters (Handout)

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