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            </table>      <p>WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Wednesday ordered combat aircraft to begin 
        moving to bases in the Persian Gulf area, the first concrete sign of preparations 
        to retaliate for last week's terrorist attacks, a senior defense official 
        said. 
      <p>The combat aircraft will be preceded by teams of Air Force air controllers 
        who will coordinate the refueling of the fighters and bombers as they 
        deploy from the United States to the Gulf region, the official said. 
      <p>The deployment has been dubbed ``Operation Infinite Justice,'' the official 
        said.
      <p> The official said no aircraft have moved yet. 
      <p>First to move would be the air controller teams, which must establish 
        ground communications at various places along the air route in order to 
        coordinate refueling operations.
      <p> Likely to be included in the force of combat aircraft are F-16s, F-15s 
        and possibly B-1 bombers, the official said. 
      <p>The United States already has a sizeable and well-developed military 
        presence in the Persian Gulf, with combat aircraft stationed in Saudi 
        Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and elsewhere.
      <p> It appeared likely that many of the extra combat aircraft to be deployed 
        in the next several days would go to Kuwait and Bahrain, the official 
        said.
      <p> Earlier Wednesday, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that America's 
        war on terrorism must go beyond Osama bin Laden and hunt down associated 
        networks of terrorists in dozens of countries. 
      <p>``We have a lot of evidence about a number of countries harboring terrorists 
        that are working across the globe,'' Rumsfeld told CNN. 
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