U.S. Warns of Increased Iraq Attacks (Reuters. Bremer interview w/Times]

[truthisfreedom]

http://www.reuters.co.uk/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=400977

U.S. warns of increased Iraq attacks
Sun November 09, 2003 11:41 PM ET


By Dean Yates

BAGHAD (Reuters) - Iraq's U.S. governor Paul Bremer warns guerrillas will step up attacks to stop reconstruction efforts and says several hundred foreign militants have entered the country.

Bremer vowed in an interview with The Times newspaper U.S.-led forces would not be driven out of Iraq by the militants because the price of failure was too high for the country itself and the Middle East.

"We're going to have increased attacks and increased terrorism because the terrorist can see the reconstruction dynamic is moving in our direction," said Bremer, adding the foreign fighters were from Sudan, Syria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

"It will be more of a problem in the months ahead unless the intelligence gets better," he said.

Washington, which has lost 150 soldiers to hostile fire since President George W. Bush declared major combat over on May 1, blames the attacks on Saddam Hussein supporters and foreign fighters, including al Qaeda members.

"Consequences of us not succeeding here would be very grave. They are for the Iraqis fatal, perhaps for the Middle East almost as fatal," Bremer told the Times.

He was quoted as saying an Iraqi "special force" to counter rising militancy would probably not include former members of Saddam's intelligence services, but it was "not impossible".

Sympathising with the Iraqi people, he said it was "not comfortable being occupied", but added: "And it's not comfortable being an occupying power."

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gee, this is a new tactic. "things are going to get a lot worse before they get better."

are they co-opting the view we all had before the war started?

[RuB]

1. If they know several hundred have entered Iraq, why didn't they stop them

and arrest them at their point of entry? The Bushie cabal is sure doing a lot of cya lately! So I am betting soon we are going to have to put up with a color coded terror level in Iraq being pasted on the Bushie cabal cable news outlets (CnnFauxMsnbc) nightly.

[maggrwaggr]

3. yeah no kidding. these people can't take responsibility for anything

they can't take the blame for anything, even the fact that people hate them.

Oh, it's those foreigners coming over the border who hate us! Not the sweet people we liberated! Nooooo ..... we never make a mistake, noooooo ........ it's the terrorists who hate us, and now the Iraqis, for our "freedoms" ..........

[RuB]

4. And that dancing in the streets (which is not a big deal on cable news)

is just the Iraqi version of the bogiewogie.

[drfemoe]

2. Let's get this straight ..

we had enough intel to support the complete single handed take over of a foreign country using military force... but we don't have the intel to build a school?