Defining the resistance in Iraq - it's not foreign and it's well prepared

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UN weapons inspector saw 'blueprints' for Monday's insurgency

By Scott Ritter

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1110/p09s02-coop.html

DELMAR, N.Y. – In the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib is a compound on an abandoned airstrip that once belonged to a state organization known as M-21, or the Special Operations Directorate of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. As a UN weapons inspector, I inspected this facility in June of 1996. We were looking for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). While I found no evidence of WMD, I did find an organization that specialized in the construction and employment of "improvised explosive devices" - the same IEDs that are now killing Americans daily in Iraq.
When we entered the compound, three Iraqis tried to escape over a wall with documents, but they were caught and surrendered the papers. Like reams of other documents stacked inside the buildings, these papers dealt with IEDs. I held in my hands a photocopied primer on how to conduct a roadside ambush using IEDs, and others on how to construct IEDs from conventional high explosives and military munitions. The sophisticated plans - albeit with crude drawings - showed how to take out a convoy by disguising an IED and when and where to detonate it for maximum damage.

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What I saw - and passed on to US intelligence agencies - were what might be called the blueprints of the postwar insurgency that the US now faces in Iraq. And they implied two important facts that US authorities must understand:

• The tools and tactics killing Americans today in Iraq are those of the former regime, not imported from abroad.

• The anti-US resistance in Iraq today is Iraqi in nature, and more broadly based and deeply rooted than acknowledged.

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Please note, this guy was a WEAPONS INSPECTOR and he PASSED ON WHAT HE SAW TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES. So, what does this mean. It means that we are being governed by the most incompetent administration in the history of this country. Or the most corrupt, an administration who doesn't give a damn about who dies to promote their horrible Plan for a New American Century.

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1. The administration has been saying for months

that the resistance fighters (or aka 'insurgents'). They have been portrayed as dangerous terrorists from other countries such as Syria, or Saudi Arabia or belonging to terrorist groups such as Ansar-Al-Islam or Al-Qaida. Anybody but Iraqis themselves.

Because it really hurts Bush's image as going in with a plan for "democracy" in Iraq. As long as the insurgents are foreigners, they can be portrayed as the 'enemy' and we'll free the Iraqis from them. If they are Iraqis, then that changes the equation considerably.

The fact is, they're Iraqis. We know this because we've seen them on a learning curve. Their attempts were clumsy at first, but with repeated efforts they became more adept, and accurate. Note the two helicopter shootings this weekend.

Bush and his cronies know that Americans do not favor going in and occupying a country. Look at our own history, for God's sake. But if Americans can be convinced that we're there for a good cause, like "rescuing the Iraqis from bad Saddam, or the bad insurgents, then they will support it. That's why he has to keep repeating it.

[Zorba607]

2. like we should beleive scott ritter

I mean, c'mon, we all know he's a pervert who tried to cybersex a 4 year old autistic girl!
Just because he was a UN inspector in Iraq doesn't mean he knows anything about the country. Just look at how incorrect his predictions were before we started this war. Haha scott ritter, you saddam loving pedophile.
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