This week's despatch of the deputy Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) - Maj Gen Moshe Kaplinski - to assume command of operations on the northern front is the clearest signal yet that things have not gone according to plan.

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However, Washington will send a clear signal to Iraq by moving 600 to 1, 000 staff members of the U.S. Central Command from Florida to Qatar to test the feasibility, politically and physically, of permanently relocating the entire headquarters, officials said.

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