New York Times
April 29, 2004
Hussein's Agents Behind Attacks, Pentagon Finds
By THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON, April 28 - A Pentagon intelligence report has concluded that
many bombings against Americans and their allies in Iraq, and the more
sophisticated of the guerrilla attacks in Falluja, are organized and often
carried out by members of Saddam Hussein's secret service, who planned for
the insurgency even before the fall of Baghdad.
The report states that Iraqi officers of the "Special Operations and
Antiterrorism Branch," known within Mr. Hussein's government as M-14, are
responsible for planning roadway improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.s,
and some of the larger car bombs that have killed Iraqis, Americans and
other foreigners. The attacks have sown chaos and fear across Iraq.
In addition, suicide bombers have worn explosives-laden vests made before
the war under the direction of of M-14 officers, according to the report,
prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency. The report also cites evidence
that one such suicide attack last April, which killed three Americans, was
carried out by a pregnant woman who was an M-14 colonel.
Its findings were based on interrogations with high-ranking M-14 members who
are now in American custody, as well as on documents uncovered and
translated by the Iraq Survey Group. While the report cites specific
evidence, other important assessments of American intelligence on Iraq have
been challenged and even proven wrong.
The contents of the report were either quoted directly or summarized by five
United States government officials and military officers who had read it. It
provides a more detailed portrait of the insurgency. In the past, American
officials have typically described the insurgents as a rudderless guerrilla
movement of foreign fighters, Islamic jihadists, former Baathists, and
common criminals. The report does not address the question of how
broad-based support for the insurgency is.
The seven-page "Special Analysis" was written under Defense Intelligence
Agency guidance by the Joint Intelligence Task Force, which includes
officers and analysts from across the civilian and military espionage
community. It is not known whether it represents a fully formed consensus or
whether there might be dissenting assessments.
Officials who have read the study said it concludes that in Falluja, which
is currently encircled by the Marines, an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 hard-core
insurgents, including members of the Iraqi Special Republican Guard who
melted away under the American-led offensive, are receiving tactical
guidance and inspiration from these former intelligence operatives. "We know
the M-14 is operating in Falluja and Ramadi," said one senior administration
official, speaking about another rebellious Sunni Muslim city nearby.
The report does not imply that every guerrilla taking up arms against the
Americans is under the command of the M-14, nor that every Iraqi who dances
atop a charred Humvee is inspired by a former Iraqi intelligence agent. But
the assessment helps explain how only a few thousand insurgents, with
professional leadership from small numbers of Mr. Hussein's intelligence
services and seasoned military officer corps, could prove to be such a
challenge to the American occupation. "They carefully laid plans to occupy
the occupiers," said one United States government official who has read the
report. "They were prepared to try and hijack the country. The goal was to
complicate the stabilization mission, and democratization."
The report, completed March 26, was commissioned to answer a simple but
provocative question: in Iraq, who is the adversary?
As the American-led coalition military approached Baghdad last spring, the
M-14 put into place "The Challenge Project," in which Mr. Hussein's
intelligence officers scattered to lead a guerrilla insurgency and plan
bombings and other attacks, the report states. The M-14 officers, according
to the report, were sent "to key cities to assist local authorities in
defending those cities and to carry out attacks."
The operation was designed with little central control, so community cells
could continue to attack American forces and allies even if Mr. Hussein was
toppled, and in the event that local commanders were then captured or
killed.
The intelligence report was first mentioned publicly last week, during
testimony before the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, in
appearances by Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, and Gen.
Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The classified
study was sent to Capitol Hill for scrutiny by lawmakers, and is being
distributed to commanders in Iraq to help focus their planning to quell the
insurgency.
The report also illustrates how Hussein loyalists are manipulating
dissatisfaction with the occupation and cultivating a climate of fear that
did not vanish with Mr. Hussein's capture. Policy makers who have read the
document say it underscores their concerns that a pervasive fear that
allowed Mr. Hussein to rule his nation is, even today, deterring millions of
Iraqis from supporting the American-led occupation. The pacification of Iraq
cannot succeed without the consent and participation of a larger number of
Iraqis, according to officials on Capitol Hill and within the
administration.
The document says that "cells of former M-14 personnel are organizing and
conducting a terrorist I.E.D. campaign against coalition forces throughout
Iraq. The explosives section of M-14 prepared for the invasion by
constructing hundreds of suicide vests and belts for use by Saddam Fedayeen
against coalition forces." The Fedayeen are former government paramilitary
forces that attacked American forces on the initial offensive toward
Baghdad, and are said to be among the insurgents still fighting today.
The report says that under Mr. Hussein, M-14 was responsible for
"hijackings, assassinations and explosives," and that its officers are
responsible for "the majority of attacks" today. In one detailed section, it
describes how M-14 organized "Tiger Groups" of 15 to 20 volunteers trained
in explosives and small-arms who would organize and carry out bombings,
including suicide attacks.
It cites an attack in the first week of April 2003, when a suicide bomber
killed three American Special Operations soldiers near the Haditha Dam. The
dam had been captured to prevent Iraqi forces from blowing it up A civilian
vehicle approached a checkpoint, and a pregnant woman stepped out and began
screaming, the military said in a statement issued after the attack. When
the soldiers approached, the woman and the vehicle detonated. The new
intelligence report quotes captured M-14 officers as saying that the woman
who carried out the suicide attack was a colonel in their organization.
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29 Apr 2004 08:16:33 AM |
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(TonyZ2001) wrote in message news:<20040429063824.27780.00000621@mb-m11.aol.com>...
New York Times
April 29, 2004
Hussein's Agents Behind Attacks, Pentagon Finds
By THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON, April 28 - A Pentagon intelligence report has concluded that
many bombings against Americans and their allies in Iraq, and the more
sophisticated of the guerrilla attacks in Falluja, are organized and often
carried out by members of Saddam Hussein's secret service, who planned for
the insurgency even before the fall of Baghdad.
What...did they have to investigate this? I could've told them that.
So much for your pentagon "intelligence" reports.
Sheesh...
WH
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29 Apr 2004 09:22:29 AM |
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On 29 Apr 2004 06:16:33 -0700, (bollogs) wrote:
tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) wrote in message news:<20040429063824.27780.00000621@mb-m11.aol.com>...
New York Times
April 29, 2004
Hussein's Agents Behind Attacks, Pentagon Finds
By THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON, April 28 - A Pentagon intelligence report has concluded that
many bombings against Americans and their allies in Iraq, and the more
sophisticated of the guerrilla attacks in Falluja, are organized and often
carried out by members of Saddam Hussein's secret service, who planned for
the insurgency even before the fall of Baghdad.
What...did they have to investigate this? I could've told them that.
So much for your pentagon "intelligence" reports.
Sheesh...
WH
he just copies/pastes from www.endtime.com. a super-sleuth.
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29 Apr 2004 02:30:42 PM |
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:22:29 +0200, Cuan <an@nymous.co.za> wrote:
On 29 Apr 2004 06:16:33 -0700, (bollogs) wrote:
tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) wrote in message news:<20040429063824.27780.00000621@mb-m11.aol.com>...
New York Times
April 29, 2004
Hussein's Agents Behind Attacks, Pentagon Finds
By THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON, April 28 - A Pentagon intelligence report has concluded that
many bombings against Americans and their allies in Iraq, and the more
sophisticated of the guerrilla attacks in Falluja, are organized and often
carried out by members of Saddam Hussein's secret service, who planned for
the insurgency even before the fall of Baghdad.
What...did they have to investigate this? I could've told them that.
So much for your pentagon "intelligence" reports.
Sheesh...
he just copies/pastes from www.endtime.com. a super-sleuth.
LOL! Yup - he's our resident "paster" ..Seeing as none of us have
access to television, radio or newspapers - what would we do without
him? .. :) Keep up the good work Tone! We're countin' on ya big guy.
Dani
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30 Apr 2004 09:46:55 AM |
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Dani
wrote:
LOL! Yup - he's our resident "paster" >..Seeing as none of us have
access to television, radio or >newspapers
In your case it very obvious that you do not view or read much news.
Tony
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30 Apr 2004 07:07:57 AM |
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(TonyZ2001) wrote in message news:<20040429063824.27780.00000621@mb-m11.aol.com>...
New York Times
April 29, 2004
Hussein's Agents Behind Attacks, Pentagon Finds
By THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON, April 28 - A Pentagon intelligence report has concluded that
many bombings against Americans and their allies in Iraq, and the more
sophisticated of the guerrilla attacks in Falluja, are organized and often
carried out by members of Saddam Hussein's secret service, who planned for
the insurgency even before the fall of Baghdad.
SNIP
So they must have run out of Al Qaeda suspects to demonise?
Are they playing for CNN? because the rest of the world must be on the
floor laughing at the ineptitude and double standards from the US
administration.
LB
That's my Fallujah!
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30 Apr 2004 08:18:03 AM |
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"Leigh_Bee" <leigh8bee@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:39cd5fe.0404300407.2cd61b41@posting.google.com...
tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) wrote in message
news:<20040429063824.27780.00000621@mb-m11.aol.com>...
New York Times
April 29, 2004
Hussein's Agents Behind Attacks, Pentagon Finds
By THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON, April 28 - A Pentagon intelligence report has concluded that
many bombings against Americans and their allies in Iraq, and the more
sophisticated of the guerrilla attacks in Falluja, are organized and
often
carried out by members of Saddam Hussein's secret service, who planned
for
the insurgency even before the fall of Baghdad.
SNIP
So they must have run out of Al Qaeda suspects to demonise?
Are they playing for CNN? because the rest of the world must be on the
floor laughing at the ineptitude and double standards from the US
administration.
LB
That's my Fallujah!
No ... they've taken the fight to the terrorists and beat them. Now it's
just a 'mop-up' operation against those supporters of Saddamned that the
U.S. hasn't rehired to take back Fallujah ... or I think that's the official
line the White House will take ... gosh it gets confusing .... what WMD's??
We had to remove Saddam to free the Iraqi people ... and now they're loving
us ... to death.
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29 Apr 2004 07:29:47 AM |
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On 29 Apr 2004 10:38:24 GMT, (TonyZ2001) wrote:
New York Times
April 29, 2004
Hussein's Agents Behind Attacks, Pentagon Finds
This could be possible, considering they haven't found Saddam yet, and
won't.
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