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To: KonKilo who wrote (103286)	6/28/2003 2:42:14 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

Iraq regime prepared for sabotage Posted on Sat, Jun. 28, 2003 WAR NOTEBOOK charlotte.com CAMP DOHA, Kuwait - Documents found in recent days in the southern Iraqi city of Basra indicate the recent string of sabotage incidents in the country might have been planned by Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency before the U.S.-led attack on the country. The sabotage, according to the documents, is designed to challenge the allied forces' occupation. Recent cases of sabotage -- oil pipelines, the Baghdad electrical system, a liquid natural gas plant and other key installations -- have made life more difficult for Iraq's 24 million people and have built resentment against allied forces. Allied officials say they obtained a document prepared by the Iraqi Intelligence Service calling for a sabotage campaign in case of Saddam's ouster. Marked "secret" and dated Jan. 23, the plan calls for 11 types of sabotage. The measures are described in the plan as "steps necessary after the fall of the Iraqi leadership by the American-British-Zionist allies, God forbid." -- NEW YORK TIMES Rumsfeld denies attacks are warfare WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declined Friday to attribute violence against U.S. soldiers in Iraq to guerrilla warfare, instead blaming scattered, disorganized remnants of the ousted Iraqi government. He said thousands of Iraqis had been turned out of prisons, and "they're doing things that are unhelpful to the Iraqi people."His comments came one day after an assailant killed an American soldier in the city of Najaf, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. The soldier was the 20th U.S. or British military member killed since President Bush declared major combat at an end May 1. -- ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. military delays more Iraq elections SAMARRA, Iraq -- U.S. military commanders have ordered a halt to local elections and self-rule in provincial cities and towns across Iraq, choosing instead to install hand-picked mayors and administrators, many of whom are former Iraqi military leaders. The go-slow approach to representative government in at least a dozen provincial cities is especially frustrating to younger, middle-class professionals who say they want to let, as one put it, "Iraqis make decisions for Iraq." The most recent order to stop planning for elections was made by Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, which controls the northern half of Iraq. It follows similar decisions by the 3rd Infantry Division in central Iraq and those of British commanders in the south. U.S. military officials say they do not want to schedule elections until order has been restored to affected areas. -- WASHINGTON POST 11 held on suspicion of plotting terror WASHINGTON -- Federal agents carried out raids in three states early Friday, rounding up 11 men who officials said belonged to an anti-American terror group and were practicing for attacks in other countries. The suspects, arrested in Pennsylvania and Washington suburbs in Maryland and Virginia, were charged in a 41-count federal indictment with conspiring to "prepare for and engage in violent jihad" against targets in the Philippines, Chechnya and the part of Kashmir claimed by both India and Pakistan. The men are accused of membership in an extremist Muslim organization, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, whose goal is driving India out of the disputed Kashmir territory. -- NEW YORK TIMES