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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (121650)	4/11/2004 12:43:04 AM
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Iraqi Tension Built as U.S. Miscalculated Fallujah and Shiite Cleric Represent a 2-Front War By Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Anthony Shadid Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 11, 2004; Page A01 Several American and Iraqi officials now regard Bremer's move to close the newspaper as a profound miscalculation based on poor intelligence and inaccurate assumptions. Foremost among the errors, the officials said, was the lack of a military strategy to deal with Sadr if he chose to fight back, as he did. "We punched a big black bear in the eye and got him angry as hell but had no immediate plan to disable him, so of course he struck back in a very vicious way," said Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University who has been serving as a senior adviser to the U.S.-led occupation authority in Baghdad. "Sadr basically implemented plans he had all along to launch a revolutionary campaign to seize power. The mistake we made tactically was in not moving swiftly and all at once against every aspect of his operation." washingtonpost.com

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