Triple suicide attack raises questions in Iraq

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15107447.htm

Triple suicide attack raises questions in Iraq
15 Jul 2005 16:43:52 GMT

Source: Reuters

By Michael Georgy

BAGHDAD, July 15 (Reuters) - An al Qaeda claim on Friday that Iraqis carried out a triple suicide bomb attack in Baghdad raises troubling questions over whether more locals are joining a deadly campaign dominated by foreign militants.

"The suicide attacks on the Green Zone were conducted by followers from the land of the two rivers (Iraq). May God grant them entry to paradise," said an al Qaeda statement posted on a Web site a day after Thursday's abortive attack.

Three militants attempted a multiple suicide strike on an entrance to Baghdad's Green Zone government compound on Thursday. The attack involved a bomber in a car and two on foot.

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It was not immediately possible to verify the Qaeda claim. An Iraqi Interior Ministry official said the captured man was from another Arab state but did not comment on the other two.

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1. And here's a study of all suicide bombers from 1980 to early 2004

that says it's the occupation of homeland that causes men to become suicide bombers. Please read.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=139771&mesg_id=139771

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2. thank you, I will.

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3. Do they think Al Qaeda is concentrated in the Sunni triangle?

That's where most of the hostilities are.

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4. Yes. n/t

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5. Spy Agencies Warned of Iraq Resistance 9/9/03

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post

Tuesday 09 September 2003

U.S. intelligence agencies warned Bush administration policymakers before the war in Iraq that there would be significant armed opposition to a U.S.-led occupation, according to administration and congressional sources familiar with the reports.

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Among the threats outlined in the intelligence agencies' reporting was that "Iraqis probably would resort to obstruction, resistance and armed opposition if they perceived attempts to keep them dependent on the U.S. and the West," one senior congressional aide said. The general tenor of the reports, according to a senior administration official familiar with the intelligence, was that the postwar period would be more "problematic" than the war to overthrow Hussein.

As U.S. military casualties mount and resistance forces wage a campaign of targeted bombings in Iraq, some administration officials have begun to fault the CIA and other intelligence agencies for being overly optimistic and failing to anticipate such widespread and sustained opposition to a U.S. occupation. But several administration and congressional sources interviewed for this article said the opposite occurred. They said senior policymakers at the White House, Pentagon and elsewhere received classified analyses before the war warning about the dangers of the postwar period.

"Intelligence reports told them at some length about possibilities for unpleasantness," said a senior administration official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity. "The reports were written, but we don't know if they were read."

more:http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/printer_091003D.shtml

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6. From the article...

<snip>There are already signs that suicide bombings, seen by militants as a fast track to heaven, have some appeal to Iraqis, even after decades of secular rule enforced by the iron fist of toppled leader Saddam Hussein.

Before blowing himself up three weeks ago, Yasser Jumaili told his parents to hand out chocolates to celebrate his martyrdom, relatives said.

Jumaili, in his mid 20s, rammed a car packed with explosives into a U.S. military target near Falluja, where a major American offensive in January was designed to pacify the area.

Three Iraqi militants interviewed by Reuters said that they had opposed al Qaeda in the past because of its "extreme" views but were ready to join ranks with it to end the U.S. occupation.

"We did not agree with al Qaeda before. But now I am ready to blow myself up because the Americans killed my brother," said Abdullah, 25, an Iraqi militant from Falluja.