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Sunday, September 26, 2004

So we train them to attack us?

Another problem in Iraq. The guys were training are turning against us .

The leader of the Iraqi Guard arrested for working with the insurgency.

Another fine mess you've gotten us into Mr Bush.

From CBS news.

U.S. Arrests Iraqi Guard
Attackers exploded a pair of car bombs outside an Iraqi National Guard compound west of the capital Sunday, wounding American and Iraqi forces, and the U.S. military announced the arrest of a senior Iraqi commander for alleged ties to the insurgency. The number and scope of attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq suggests a broad and intensifying insurgency, in contrast to White House claims that instability is confined to small regions of the country, the Washington Post reports. A private security firm working for the U.S. government, Kroll Security International, compiled the information on the attacks. The top U.S. military commander for Iraq said Sunday he expected flawed elections and much violence ahead of the voting scheduled for January. Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East, said the elections will be carried out. But he warned that voting may not be possible in parts of Iraq where the violence is too intense. "I don't think we'll ever achieve perfection and when we look for perfection in a combat zone we're going to be sadly disappointed," he said in a broadcast interview. "We're going to have to fight our way all the way through elections," he said, "and there'll be a lot of violence between now and then." He spoke of a major offensive before the election, with U.S. and Iraqi forces doing "whatever's necessary to bring areas in Iraq under Iraqi control." Lt. Gen. Talib al-Lahibi, who previously served as an infantry officer in Saddam Hussein's army, was detained Thursday in the province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, said Lt. Col. Steven Boylan, a spokesman for coalition forces in Iraq. Boylan said Sunday that authorities were trying to clear up confusion over what exact position al-Lahibi held within the Iraqi National Guard. He declined to provide details on the general's suspected ties to militants waging a 17-month insurgency to topple the interim Iraqi authorities and oust coalition forces from the country. The two militants who died in Sunday's suicide attacks tried to ram two cars loaded with explosives into the base in Kharma, a town on the outskirts of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, a U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity. The number of U.S. and Iraqi casualties was not immediately clear. The attack took place at 9 a.m. and caused serious damage to the main building, said Bassem Abbas, a witness. He added that shortly after the attack, U.S. troops cordoned off the area and prevented people from getting close. In Baghdad on Sunday, a rocket slammed into a busy neighborhood, killing at least one person and wounding eight, hospital officials and witnesses said. Hours later, another loud blast shook the area near the Green Zone, site of the U.S. Embassy and the interim Iraqi government. Smoke rose above the zone and alert sirens sounded. It was not clear if anything had been hit. American troops have staged repeated attacks in Fallujah on sites that the U.S. military says are being used by followers of Jordanian-born terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. But U.S. troops have not entered Fallujah since the end of a three-week siege in April that killed hundreds. The twin blasts in Kharma bring to at least 34 the number of suicide car bombings in September, the highest monthly total since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. As many as seven car bombs have been detonated in a single day this month.


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