Leni
Wait a minute, this can't be right. There's no connection between the Saddam regime and terrorism. None whatsoever.
General Ricardo Sanchez, the US commander on the ground, told NBC television in an interview Tuesday that the US military has suspected a relationship between former regime loyalists and foreign fighters.
"There are some clear indicators that now they have begun to work together," he said.
In the first direct evidence of possible outside participation in the attacks, a man who was apprehended after one of the suicide bombings failed was carrying a Syrian passport, officials said. Iraqi interim Health Minister Khodair Abbas said Wednesday he was a Yemeni.
General John Abizaid, the head of the US Central Command, meanwhile is pressing for more intelligence resources to deal with the increasingly sophisticated attacks and the Pentagon is considering using a group whose primary mission has been the hunt for weapons of mass destruction, a spokesman said.
Larry DiRita, the acting Pentagon spokesman, told reporters earlier that Abizaid already had moved intelligence people within his theater of operations to counter-terrorism work but was looking for other ways to beef up the effort.
"Abizaid feels very strongly he needs more counter-terrorism resources and he's going to get it," DiRita said(/snip)
Wonder when the Dems frist produced their "no WMD" meme?
Shites...Sunnis...whatever. Let them kill each other off not our soldiers.