US wakes up to Iraqi reality
Sunday 26 October 2003, 20:02 Makka Time, 17:02 GMT
Lawlessness is sweeping the Iraq that Bremer administers
Caught in a quagmire in Iraq, the United States has admitted capturing
Saddam Hussein would not necessarily end all resistance attacks.
"It will be helpful, it won't end the attacks," Paul Bremer, the
US-occupation administrator in Baghdad said.
His was the first admission by a leading US official that the
resistance attacks had wider support in Iraq.
The occupation forces have so far preferred to blame all attacks on a
handful of loyalists of the ousted Saddam regime.
Bremer said the capture of Saddam would dash the hopes of those who
still dreamed of the former Iraqi president staging a comeback.
Saddam's location
"I think he is still in Iraq, he is still alive," Bremer said.
"We don’t have any immediate intelligence as to exactly where he is."
Bremer said he had ordered a thorough probe into Sunday's rocket
attacks on the Baghdad hotel where US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz was staying.
"I asked for a complete investigation into this and my security people
are looking into it," he said.
"We have a major terrorist problem in Iraq. We are on front in the war
on terrorism," Bremer claimed.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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