Who believes the Pentagon's finding that Saddam is behind the insurgency?

[BurtWorm]

[MSgt213]

1. I don't understand the question.

[BurtWorm]

7. Front page story in the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/politics/29ENEM.html?hp


April 29, 2004
Hussein's Agents Are Behind Attacks in Iraq, 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 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.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. You mean it's not UBL?

Or John Kerry?
Or Clinton's Rowdy Penis?

Aren't the (Saddam's) Baathists the guys we want to hire back into gov't and law enforcement positions?

[mmonk]

3. No

it's just Clinton's fault. Also, anti-war protesters giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

[wtmusic]

4. Believers PM me re: land for sale in Florida - GREAT DEAL!

:silly:

[Seldona]

5. Saddam?

What, are we giving him daily phone calls or something?

I am sure it has nothing to do with the people of Iraq being under occupation over a year after 'mission accomplished'.

Not to mention that we flat out admit that the soveriegnty we are 'handing over' on June 30th is a farce.

Or the fact that for a supposed democracy, we bring in Iraqi expatriots to run things, and do not ask the Iraqi people ANYTHING about their own government.

Absolutely absurd.

[underpants]

6. The THREE main purposes of this story IMHO

1.The timing can't be missed. They just happened to release this the day of the 9/11 going to the Oval Office (very intimidating setting BTW).

2.This will be used to slowly tie Saddam to alQaeda. Even if it is his old ARMY ( ) the talking heads and spinmeisters will draw out the conclusion that they WERE in cahoots all along. "Well we know that alQaeda has been doing some of the attacks and now we have this report............"

3.This feeds into the ISG's inability to find WMD. This article states that this M-14 has been terrorizing the natives which has been one of the main excuses so far for not finding what they were sure was there. Now when they do *POOF* find the WMD it is because they discovered this operation and took it out (in a VERY manly way).