Iraq insurgents plan wave of attacks

[FreedomAngel82]

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9013227/

<By Jim Miklaszewski
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:49 p.m. ET Aug. 19, 2005


WASHINGTON - U.S. and foreign intelligence officials tell NBC News
they have credible intelligence that insurgents in Iraq have active
plans to launch a massive offensive early next week — timed to
coincide with the possible draft of an Iraqi constitution on Monday.

According to the officials, terrorists would launch as many as 20
simultaneous suicide bombings, mostly in Baghdad. The plans also
include heavy rocket and mortar attacks against U.S. and Iraqi
government offices inside Baghdad's Green Zone, against the U.S.
military at Baghdad International Airport, and at Abu Ghraib prison.

U.S. officials say the offensive was planned for early this week but
was put on hold when Iraqis failed to come up with a draft
constitution.

At the same time, some Pentagon officials now acknowledge that the
two-and-a-half-year insurgent war has turned Iraq into a terrorist
training camp.

U.S. intelligence indicates Islamic militants from several African
nations — Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan and Somalia — travel
through Syria into Iraq, where they get hands-on training in roadside
and suicide bombings, assassinations and kidnappings as well as
counter-surveillance and counter-intelligence against military
targets, constantly changing their tactics to counter American
defenses.>

[corkhead]

1. can you spell TET? eom

[Larkspur]

2. Or this is a propaganda setup to take advantage of when there is no

massive attack. Then Cheney will say that the insurgency has died. That statement will trigger a "Tet" offensive. :crazy: