FBI Challenges in Probe of Iraq Bombings (So many they can't keep up)

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_iraq_bombings&cid=542&ncid=1473

WASHINGTON - The FBI is facing one of the most dangerous, difficult challenges in its history as agents and analysts try to solve a string of deadly bombings in Iraq.

In a telling sign of the peril, FBI agents must be accompanied by American troops whenever they leave their secure compound at the Baghdad airport. Further complicating their job is the lack of a cooperating foreign government to help them and the paucity of high-quality intelligence from either informants or technological surveillance.

"We don't have the intelligence as of yet to keep events from occurring and, postblast, the intelligence to prove who's behind them," FBI counterterrorism chief John Pistole told The Associated Press in a recent interview. "We are making progress, both forensically and in developing sources. It's just a much greater challenge than any place we've been."

The FBI is involved in about a dozen bombing investigations in Iraq, focusing on those that involve civilian or government targets rather than attacks directly on U.S. or coalition military forces.

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[Jazzgirl]

1. What a profound statement!

"We don't have the intelligence as of yet to keep events from occurring and, postblast, the intelligence to prove who's behind them,"

I don't expect they'll ever get the "intelligence" to prove who's behind 'em. They expect people to just run to them and give up their friends and family??!!?? Puh-leez!

Jazzgirl :crazy:

[saigon68]

3. I thought they were for domestic law enforcement.

Wish we had a few of those guys in Nam. Then the draftees could have gone home and these civil servants could have fought the war in the paddys.

[NNN0LHI]

4. These FBI lawyers and CPA's think they are still in Kansas n/t

[Wwagsthedog]

2. "We don't have the intelligence"

That sure explains a lot about our occupation and the governance of the unwilling.