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Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 04:16 AM
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The risk of a 'Tet' in Iraq?
http://msnbc.com/news/974395.asp?0cv=CB20

ANALYSIS
By Michael Moran
MSNBC

Oct. 2 —  Somewhere in Iraq right now, right this very moment, a scheme to deliver a knockout blow to the American-led force occupying the country is almost certainly being planned. Like all such plans devised by guerrillas fighting a vastly superior force, this one aims to make up for what the Iraqi resistance lacks in firepower with sheer, unadulterated bloodshed.

U.S. MILITARY AND intelligence officials remain uncertain about the degree of coordination behind the continuing attacks on American forces in Iraq, which still average about 16 a day. There is disagreement between military intelligence officers in Iraq, and among intelligence analysts generally, whether Saddam Hussein is playing a direct part in these attacks, the amount of support for them among Iraqis and what percentage can be laid to non-Iraqi extremist groups attracted to the country solely as a way to strike out at America.

One thing all of them agree upon, however, is the likelihood that some group will attempt to mount a catastrophic attack of some kind in an effort to rock not only the American military in Iraq but, more importantly, support for the deployment at home.

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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 05:11 AM
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1. Anybody who knows Iraqi history
will realize that this is not a posibilty, but a
matter of time... sadly.

They revolted against the Brits why not against us?

Tonny Blair forgot that part of Imperial history or so
it seems
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