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BRIEF: Meanwhile in El Paso, military personnel ready troops and equipment for an invasion in Iraq. Up to 500 air defense soldiers from Fort Bliss will go to the area later this month. Over 50 thousand U-S soldiers are already positioned in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. Just yesterday, the U-S ramped up its propaganda campaign in Iraq. According to the Associated Press, warplanes dropped nearly half a million leaflets over the city of Basra. They told readers where to tune in to Arabic-language radio broadcasts encouraging soldiers to defect. E-mail Monica Lopez at monicalopez@ziplip.com . This story was broadcast on January 3, 2003.