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interview fr.om N.orway, where'be has unchecked b.orders and the1àck.of a cenp.olitical
asylum.. tral g.overnment - Ira.; is all that," said
. "The resistance is n.ot .only a reacti.on Muhammad Salah, an expert .on mili-
.t.o the American invasi.on, it is part.of tant groups and the Cairo bureau chief
the c.ontinu.ous Islamic struggle since .of Lond.on-based Al-Hayat newspaper.
the c.ollapse .of the caliphate," he said. "It is the perfect envir.onment f.orfunda-
"All Islamic struggles since then are mentalist groups to.operate and gr.ow." .
;part .of .one .organized eff.ort t.o bring U.S. tr.o.opshave arrested tw.o clerics;
back the caliphate." fr.omIslamic Kurdish gr.oups - .once all
Such appeals appear t.obe attracting part.of .onebig .organizati.on - suspeca
wide range .of radicals. The fight. ted.of providing logistics help t.oAnsar
against Al Qaeda and its numerous .off- fighters, Iraqi .officials said.
sh.o.ots w.orldwide .over the past two M.ore than ISO memberS .ofAnsaI' al-
:"yearshas severely disrupted their coor- .Islam are believed t.ohave slipped int.o
dinati.on, but details emerging from the countrY in recent weeks, said a seeither
suspects captured in the past few curity .official in Kurdistan. Smugglers
weeks .or recent surveillance indicates are believed t.o be bringing them .over
that Al Qaeda training meth.ods in ev- daily. .
erything from forgery t.o establishing In additi.on, there are an-estimated
sleeper cells are being applied here. 100,000 f.ormer membel'$ .ofthe Iraqi se-
Al Q.aeda Web sites bear l.ong treat- curity services with.out gainful empl.oyises
.on the need f.or jihad here and ar- ment and all c.oncentrated in the Sunni
gue that theeff.ort sh.ould n.otbe dissip- .triangle n.orth .of Baghdad. Perhaps
ated .in m~aningless activities like 2,000.of them, especially th.ose with n.o
peaceful dem.onstrati.ons. Chat room s.ource .ofinc.ome and n.oh.opes .ofgaindiscussi.ons
.occasi.onally f.ocus .on h.ow ing any kind .of amnesty, w.ould be
t.osneak across the b.orders.
likely recruits f.or the fundamentalists,
Once established in Baghdad .orin the he said.
Sunni triangle n.orth .of the capital, Alth.ough attacks such as the deadly
where much .of the armed resistance car b.omb .outside the J.ordanian Em-
, unr.olls, the Islamic radicals .oftenmake bassy that killed 17pe.ople last Thursday
':c.oInm.on"cause with members .of the are likely the w.ork.ofmilitants, secu rity
f.ormer Baathist regime wh.oare als.ode- .officials say,there are als.o s.ome attacks
.termined t.ofight Ameriçans.
carried .outeither f.orm.oney .orby Iraqis
At least .one Saudi and .one Egyptian wh.o just d.o n.ot want Americans here.
f.ormerly linked to Al Q.aeda helped es- But they anticipate m.ore future attacks
'tablish' an initial training camp three. t.obe the handiw.ork .ofmilitant .organi-
, weeks ag.owhere new ~ecruits are lec- zati.ons.'
,tured .onthe the.ol.ogical'underpinnings The training around Baghdad thus far
.ofjihad, ,orie security official in Bagh~ has been d.onein three stages, a security
dad saicL
.official said. S.omes.ort .ofinitial c.ontact
"Allprevi.ous experiences with the ac- is made - usually after prayers in a
,tivities .of the underground .organiza- m.osque, and then a sec.ond meeting is
ti.ons proved that they fl.ourish in coun- arranged. S.omerecruits are weeded .out
tries with a cha.otic security' situati.on, then, but the third round .oflikely candidates
are the .ones wh.o make it' t.o the
training caml?, the .official said. They
are t.old t.om.oveaway fr.om their families
and n.ot c.ommunicate with any.one.
S.ome .ofthe candidates are believed'
t.o be the men wh.o w.orked f.or
Muhammad Khtair al-Dulaimi in the
Special Operati.ons Direct.orate" the
branch .of the Iraqi secret service that
specialized in rem.ote c.ontr.olb.ombings, .
p.ois.oning and" .other .operati.ons. The
f.ormer chief is .still at large ~and is suspected
.ofputting his empl.oyees t.ow.ork
against the Americans, the s.ource said;
But the main group .organizing an un- .
dergr.ound .r.outé .ofsafe h.ouses and c,p-
.ordinating the vari.ous eff.orts is' ,be"
lieved t.o by Ansàr al-Islam, whose
name means the Islamic Partisans in
English and wh.ose suspected ties t.oAl.
Qaeda were am.ong' the reas.ons the'
B~sh administrati.on used t.ojustify the
war against Iraq. Alth.ough initially a
strictly Kurdish .organizati.on, its ranks
swelled with Arab fighters after the U.S.
attacked Afghanistan in Oct.ober 2001.
Bef.ore the Iraqi war they were believed
t.ohave s.ome850 members, but up
t.o 200 were killed in the attack against
them by Kurdish and U.S. special f.orces
tr.o.opsin March. Several hundred m.ore
were either captured .or turned themselves
in, leaving an estimated 300 t.o350
members wh.o fled int.o Iran.
Their current activities are unclear.
But Web sites believed linked t.o Al
Qaeda are clear en.ough ab.out the envisaged
fight: "The struggle with America
has t.o be carefully managed, the 'electric
sh.ock meth.od' must be applied, relentless
sh.ocks that haunt the Americans
all the time everywhere, with.out
.giving theJDa break t.oregain balance .or
p.ower."
The New York TImes
As violence
escalates,
warin Iraq
.isdefended
By Richard A. Oppel Jr.
, BAGHDAD: An American s.oldier was
killed Wednesday' and an.other was
wounded, c.omp.ounding .one .of the
worst weeks .ofthe f.our-m.onth-l.ong.occupati.on
.ofIraq. The vi.olence f.oll.owed
an impassi.oned defense .ofthe .occupati.onby
the t.opAmerican administrat.or
here, L. Paul Bremer 3rd.
In his ,remarks Tuesday, h.owever,
, Brèmer ackn.owledged that "mistakes"
had led t.othe deaths .ofinn.ocent civilians
and that finding the m.oney t.o repair
Iraq's crumbling infrastructure
was a "substantial pro~lem. "
Bremer's remarb came after a week But .on Tuesday, Bremer f.orcefully
in,which at least 17pe.ople were killed emphasized the pr.ogress that had been
bya car b.omb at the J.ordanian Embassy D:1ades.ofar - including the reopening
.onThursday and fuel sh.ortages pr.omp- .ofh.ospitals, health clinics and sch.o.ols
ted ri.ots .over the weekend in the n.or- - while warning that many .ofthe pr.obmally
peaceful regi.on ar.ound Basra, lems that remained were the result .of40
which is c.ontr.olled by the British. 'years .ofneglect and w.ould take time t.o
In the vi.olence Wednesday, a s.oldier fix. He added that the number .ofdeaths
fr.om .the 4th Infantry Divisi.on died .of inn.ocent civilians was "really very
when the arm.ored pers.onnel carrier he l.ow,"but said he c.ould n.ot give a t.otal.
was riding in struck an expl.osive device Parad.oxically, .one .of the biggest
near Tikrit, the U.S~Central C.ommand challenges facing the American-led cisaid.
On Tuesday, a s.oldier fr.om the 3rd vilian auth.ority is pr.oving t.obe pr.ovid-
Arm.ored Cavalry Regiment was killed ing fuel f.or citizens .of a c.ountry that
and an.other w.ounded whén their c.on- b.oasts s.ome.ofthe w.orld's largest .oilrevoy
struck three impr.ovised expl.osive . serves. Tw.o days .of ri.ots in Basra,
devices near Ramadi, ab.out 100 kil.ome-' spurred by miles-l.ong gas.oline lines
ters, .or60 miles, west .ofBaghdad. and electricity failures, were quelled
The death. Wednesday br.ought t.o at, M.onday after British tr.o.opsdistributed
least 58 the number .of American ser- gas.oline fr.om their .own reserves.
vicemen killed in attacks since the end But fuel sh.ortages may pr.ove c.om.
.ofmaj.or c.ombat .operati.ons May 1. m.on, acc.ording t.o estimates by United
In recent days, the American mili- Nati.ons .officials. They say the c.ountry
~~.y has c.omeunder criticism f.orthree is alm.ost certain t.o endure sh.ortages
s~.o.otings.in Bagh~d in w~ich at least this winter .of kerosene, a critical fuel
mne Iraqls were k1l1ed. One .of those. f.orheating h.omes in n.orthern Iraq and
cases,military .officials c.onfirmed, in-,' liquefied petr.oleum gas, a 'C.o~.oD
v~lved wh:,-t w~ apparently a ~ase.of c.o.okingfuel that has already seen a 16-
~lstaken ldentity that led. s.ol~lers t.o f.oldprice spike in s.ome regi.ons.
kill two members .ofthe Iraql p.ohce Sat- .
urday after a car chase.
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