Saddam Not heading Iraqi Insurgency
Reader | 15.12.2003 02:06
Aljazeera report that Saddam could not have been coordinating the Iraqi resistance.
A US official has conceded that the manner and circumstances of Saddam Hussein's arrest makes it unlikely he was directing resistance forces in Iraq.
It sounds like he fell in a hole and got stuck ;)
A US official has conceded that the manner and circumstances of Saddam Hussein's arrest makes it unlikely he was directing resistance forces in Iraq.
It sounds like he fell in a hole and got stuck ;)
Saddam not heading insurgency
Monday 15 December 2003 12:56 AM GMT
US says there is little evidence Saddam controlled resistance
A US official has conceded that the manner and circumstances of Saddam Hussein's arrest was arrested makes it unlikely he was directing resistance forces in Iraq.
US forces who captured a haggard on Saturday 13 December Saddam found no communications equipment, maps or other evidence of a guerrilla command center at Saddam's hiding place.
"Given the location and circumstances of his capture, it makes it clear that Saddam was not managing the insurgency, and that he had very little control or influence.
"That is significant and disturbing because it means the insurgents are not fighting for Saddam, they're fighting against the United States," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
US intelligence officials have previously said they believe Saddam was too concerned with survival and staying hidden to provide much more than symbolic leadership.
from http://english.Aljazeera.net
Monday 15 December 2003 12:56 AM GMT
US says there is little evidence Saddam controlled resistance
A US official has conceded that the manner and circumstances of Saddam Hussein's arrest was arrested makes it unlikely he was directing resistance forces in Iraq.
US forces who captured a haggard on Saturday 13 December Saddam found no communications equipment, maps or other evidence of a guerrilla command center at Saddam's hiding place.
"Given the location and circumstances of his capture, it makes it clear that Saddam was not managing the insurgency, and that he had very little control or influence.
"That is significant and disturbing because it means the insurgents are not fighting for Saddam, they're fighting against the United States," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
US intelligence officials have previously said they believe Saddam was too concerned with survival and staying hidden to provide much more than symbolic leadership.
from http://english.Aljazeera.net
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It was still ex Baathists who were spearheading the resistance
15.12.2003 10:24
speaker of the truth
How do you know?
15.12.2003 14:18
And please explain about this "Fayeden clothing": is that like in Mohammed al-Fayed? They bought it from Harrods, is that what you're saying? :-)
Mike
Saddam's Capture Will Not Stop The Relentless Killings From Insurgents
16.12.2003 10:58
The capture of Saddam will give a massive boost to the resistance because
a) It removes the fear that supporting the resistance could restore Saddam to power.
b) It removes one more American justification for staying in Iraq.
c) The bulk of the resistance are Iraq's who opposed Saddam.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5376.htm
Yet the repeated assertions of US infantry commanders, especially those based around Mosul and Tikrit, that most of their attackers are Iraqi rather than foreign, show that the American military command in Iraq - at least at the divisional level - knows the truth.
Yesterday, for example, a sergeant in the 1st Armoured Division on checkpoint duty in Baghdad explained the situation to The Independent in remarkably blunt words. "We're not going to go home any sooner because of Saddam's getting caught," he said. "We all came to search for weapons of mass destruction and attention has now been diverted from that. The arrest of Saddam is meaningless. We still don't know why we came here."
There are groups aplenty with enthusiasm to attack the Americans but who never had any love for Saddam. One example is the Unification Front for the Liberation of Iraq, which was anti-Saddam but has now called on its supporters to fight the American occupation. In all, The Independent has identified 12 separate guerrilla groups, all loosely in touch with each other through tribal connections, but only one could be identified as comprising Saddam loyalists or Baathists.
In many areas, men identifying themselves as resistors have openly boasted that they are joining the new American-paid police forces in order to earn money, gain experience with weapons and gather intelligence on their American military "allies".
Richard