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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (13124)	2/18/2003 1:05:20 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

you have been deceived Frequently. and are easily impressed Always. <g> lurqer

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (13124)	2/19/2003 2:23:12 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

"Make Iraq the US's Chechnya!" Battle cry of the muezzin By B Raman Asia Times Online February 19, 2003 "Make Iraq the US's Chechnya!" That was the theme of the sermons in many of the jihadi madrassas of Pakistan last Friday. And there are signs that the message has not gone unheard. Taking advantage of the large-scale movement of Muslims to Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage, from 80 to 120 jihad-hardened cadres of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front (IIF) are reported to have moved to that country under the garb of pilgrims. They intend to infiltrate from there into Iraq. Most of them are said to be Pakistanis, including Yemeni-Balochis (born of mixed Yemeni and Balochi parentage) belonging to the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-Alami (HUM International), the Harkat-ul-Jihad Al-Islami (HUJI) and the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM). Some of them fought against Russian troops in Chechnya. It is said their mission would not be to fight against the US and British troops when they invade Iraq, but to motivate the Iraqi people and organize them into an Iraqi mujahideen movement against the foreign invaders similar to the Afghan mujahideen movement against the Soviet troops in the 1980s. There is so far no evidence indicating the Saddam Hussein government in Baghdad has had anything to do with this movement of IIF cadres to Iraq via Saudi Arabia. The remnants of the IIF and al-Qaeda taking shelter in Pakistan have been discussing their strategy for what they look upon as the next phase of their jihad against the "crusaders" and the Jewish people, which will be Iraq-focused, though not necessarily exclusively in Iraqi territory. It is reported that among the actions under consideration in this connection are intensification of attacks on US troops in Afghanistan, and air-borne and underwater operations directed against US and British naval ships, particularly aircraft carriers. The underwater operations may involve the use of jihadi frogmen. The HUM-International, the HUJI and the JEM have in their ranks a large number of ex-servicemen from the Pakistani army. A drive has now been undertaken to recruit ex-servicemen from the Pakistani air force and navy for possible use against the invaders in Iraq - either directly or indirectly as trainers of the Arab cadres of al-Qaeda. ________________________________________________________ B Raman is Additional Secretary (ret), Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, and presently director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai; former member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India. E-Mail: corde@vsnl.com. He was also head of the counter-terrorism division of the Research & Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency, from 1988 to August, 1994. ©2003 Asia Times Online Co, Ltd. atimes.com