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To: i-node who wrote (174354)	8/23/2003 9:54:35 AM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1577034

Looks like we have finally managed to prove that Iraq is a terrorists' heaven....unfortunately it's taken billions of dollars and a war to make that claim come true. But where are those WMDs? Looks like the baboon in chief avoids the topic nowadays. Al ============================================================================== Bush Cites 'Foreign Element' in Iraq U.S. Efforts Called a 'Continuing Battle in the War on Terror' By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 23, 2003; Page A16 BURBANK, Wash., Aug. 22 -- President Bush contended today that a "foreign element" of terrorists has moved into Iraq and is carrying out some of the violence that continues to jar that nation nearly four months after the end of major U.S. military operations there. Bush said that U.S. efforts to install a democracy to replace deposed leader Saddam Hussein are "turning out to be a continuing battle in the war on terror." He said the persistent killings, which have included U.S. military personnel, Iraqis and dozens of United Nations relief workers, are the combined work of former Baath Party officials loyal to Hussein and "al Qaeda-type fighters" who are infiltrating the country. The president's remarks, toward the end of a two-day swing through the Pacific Northwest, were his first appraisal of the dynamics in postwar Iraq since shortly after a massive car bomb exploded in Baghdad, demolishing the U.N. headquarters there and killing the head of the U.N. mission and 22 others. In addition to Hussein loyalists, Bush said about the source of resistance in Iraq, "I also believe there's a foreign element that is moving into Iraq, and these will be al Qaeda-type fighters." Bush said these infiltrators "hate the thought of a democracy emerging. And, therefore, they want to violently prevent that from happening." The president's remarks were echoed today in an interview of Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage by al-Jazeera, the influential Arabic-language television network based in Qatar. "The borders are quite porous, as you'd imagine, and the fact that we've captured a certain number of foreign fighters in Baghdad and around Iraq indicates that the ways that these people are getting into the country is from Iran and from Syria and from Saudi Arabia," he said. Armitage said that he could not fix blame on Iran, Syria or Saudi Arabia, "but, at a minimum, I can state that these fighters are not being stopped at the borders, and this is something that causes us a great deal of concern." Armitage said the Saudis had provided better cooperation after the car bombings in a Westerners' housing compound in Riyadh on May 12. Bush also reiterated today his call for more nations to assist the U.S.-led effort to reestablish peace in Iraq and rebuild a country torn by the dictatorial leadership of Hussein and by the war that ousted him. "We do need and welcome more foreign troops into Iraq," Bush said. "What that will do is . . . enable many of those troops to guard the infrastructure." Of the possibility of a larger role for the United Nations, Bush said: "[W]e're discussing . . . resolutions now about how to encourage other nations to participate in the process." In his remarks to reporters at a Seattle airport, given after a private meeting with local business leaders, Bush continued his upbeat appraisal of the efforts to capture the former aides and sympathizers of Hussein. "Every day that goes by, we're getting more solid evidence from Iraqi citizens about the whereabouts of certain . . . thugs of a former regime," he said, citing the capture this week of Ali Hassan Majeed, known as "Chemical Ali." Staff writer Dana Milbank in Washington contributed to this report.