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09-26-02, 07:59 AM
One thousand Camp Pendleton Marines began a scheduled monthlong war game yesterday in the Kuwaiti desert while debate intensified over a possible war with Iraq's Saddam Hussein.

The training near Iraq's southern border is routine and one of several U.S. exercises in the area, military officials said.

"It's nothing special, so to speak," said Marine Capt. Rob Riggle, a spokesman for Central Command at headquarters in Tampa, Fla.

The annual war game includes troops from Camp Pendleton's 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Kuwaiti forces who will practice amphibious, ground and air operations, he added.

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