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To: GST who wrote (119112)	11/10/2003 10:51:20 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Defining the resistance in Iraq - it's not foreign and it's well prepared _________________________________________________ UN weapons inspector saw 'blueprints' for Monday's insurgency By Scott Ritter Commentary The Christian Science Monitor from the November 10, 2003 edition csmonitor.com <<...DELMAR, N.Y. – In the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib is a compound on an abandoned airstrip that once belonged to a state organization known as M-21, or the Special Operations Directorate of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. As a UN weapons inspector, I inspected this facility in June of 1996. We were looking for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). While I found no evidence of WMD, I did find an organization that specialized in the construction and employment of "improvised explosive devices" - the same IEDs that are now killing Americans daily in Iraq. When we entered the compound, three Iraqis tried to escape over a wall with documents, but they were caught and surrendered the papers. Like reams of other documents stacked inside the buildings, these papers dealt with IEDs. I held in my hands a photocopied primer on how to conduct a roadside ambush using IEDs, and others on how to construct IEDs from conventional high explosives and military munitions. The sophisticated plans - albeit with crude drawings - showed how to take out a convoy by disguising an IED and when and where to detonate it for maximum damage. Because WMD was what we were charged with looking for, we weren't allowed to take notes on this kind of activity. But, when we returned to our cars, we carefully reconstructed everything we saw. What I saw - and passed on to US intelligence agencies - were what might be called the blueprints of the postwar insurgency that the US now faces in Iraq. And they implied two important facts that US authorities must understand: • The tools and tactics killing Americans today in Iraq are those of the former regime, not imported from abroad. • The anti-US resistance in Iraq today is Iraqi in nature, and more broadly based and deeply rooted than acknowledged...>> cont. at: csmonitor.com