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...guerrilla-style operations targeting U.S. forces - some of which have used relatively sophisticated explosive devices, mortars and RPGs as well as tactics that bespeak some combat training, are believed to involve elements of the military and security services of the old regime, as well as Iraqi and foreign Arab volunteers. U.S. officials claim that one of the men involved in the latest wave of suicide attacks carried a Syrian passport, suggesting involvement by foreign jihadis. Some analysts suspect the suicide tactics, mass-casualty attacks on "soft" targets and synchronicity of the latest wave of bombings suggests the involvement...
...While some on the IGC, as well as traditional U.S. allies in the Arab world and Europe, have warned that the occupation itself contributes to the security problem, the security problem also suggests that there'll be no early end to the occupation, either. Pentagon plans to begin drawing down the U.S. troop complement in Iraq by next summer, on current indicators, looks more than a little optimistic. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it in a recent memo to colleagues leaked last week to the media, what lies ahead for the U.S. in Iraq is a "long, hard slog...
...there. In early 1995 the French rolled up five CIA officers, including a woman who had been working as a NOC under business cover for about five years. Although the NOC caught in Paris in 1995 was simply sent home, "it might not have been so easy in an Arab country," says a former CIA official familiar with the matter. "[NOCs] have no diplomatic status, so they can end up in slammers...
...totally against the psychology of the Iraqi people" to become willing suicide bombers. In Washington's view, the troublemakers are foreign terrorists, either al-Qaeda operatives or returning members of the al-Qaeda--linked Iraqi group Ansar al-Islam. Many Iraqis blame the big hits on an influx of Arab Islamists bent on holy war. Observers say unknown numbers have slipped into Iraq from Iran, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The declining influence of Saddam's loyalists has apparently emboldened Iraq's Islamist groups to begin coordinating with foreign fighters eager to battle America. "They are coming into Iraq through...
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the other usual suspects denied involvement, saying their quarrel is with Israel alone. A senior Palestinian security source points the finger at a new culprit: the Arab Liberation Front (A.L.F.), a small P.L.O. group once backed by Saddam Hussein. This source tells TIME that the A.L.F. may have paid malcontents in Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction to strike at the U.S. to punish the occupiers of Iraq. A.L.F. officials would not comment. But any such link between Iraq and Palestinian violence would be a disturbing new development...