U.S. Takes Aim at Hussein.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: All right, turning now to the showdown with Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has signed orders for an additional 35,000 troops to be deployed to the Persian Gulf region. Meanwhile the Pentagon is taking cyber shots at Saddam Hussein. It's sending e-mails to Iraqi leaders encouraging them to defect or defy Saddam Hussein. CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has more.</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): CNN has learned that in the last few days the U.S. military has begun a surreptitious e-mail campaign inside Iraq sending disguised e-mails to Iraqi leaders urging them to descent and defect from Saddam Hussein, telling them that they cannot win if the U.S. and its coalition partners go to war against Iraq. The immediate scope of the campaign could not be learned, but officials tell CNN it is the first time the U.S. military has engaged in such an e-mail campaign inside Iraq. Officials tell CNN this is all part of 21st Century warfare, using the Internet, bits and bites, as much as bombs and bullets. Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.