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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (8193)	11/30/2004 8:17:53 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 32591

IMO. Raids should be conducted on the ones in the free world as well. Fallujah's mosques hid arms, militants By Tom Squitieri, USA TODAY Updated 11/29/2004 usatoday.com DOHA, Qatar — The U.S. military captured at least 15 portable surface-to-air missiles capable of shooting down aircraft, dozens of mortar tubes and sophisticated anti-tank weapons among hundreds of weapons caches found in the Iraqi militant stronghold of Fallujah, according to a classified military report. The report said that one out of every two mosques in Fallujah were used to hide fighters or weapons during a recent offensive. Fallujah is called the "city of mosques" because it has at least 100 such houses of worship. The report was presented Friday to senior U.S. military officers, who were also briefed on the capture of a high-ranking Iraqi insurgent in Fallujah on Thursday. The insurgent was carrying a lengthy list of targets planned against coalition facilities and officials, according to three officers briefed on the report. The report was shown to USA TODAY by one of the officers. The three asked not to be identified because the information has not yet been made public. Fallujah had become a refuge for militants in Iraq before a force of 10,000 U.S. and Iraqi government troops retook the city in a weeklong offensive this month. An estimated 2,000 hard-core insurgents had been operating in the city. "There will be no more safe havens in Iraq," said Gen. John Abizaid, the head of U.S. Central Command, which oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Abizaid was at a Central Command base in Qatar over the weekend following a Thanksgiving Day visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Most top leaders of the insurgency, including Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who has claimed responsibility for many car bombings and hostage beheadings, escaped Fallujah before the assault. But the U.S. officers said they believe the Iraqi captured with the target list last week is a top leader. One of the officers said the list — described as part of the "pocket litter" found when the insurgent was searched — contained more than two dozen targets. It's not clear what impact the Fallujah operation will have in other violent parts of Iraq. But the volume of weapons found in the city indicates insurgents used the refuge to support attacks elsewhere in the Sunni Triangle, north and west of Baghdad. "The amount of weapons was in no way just to protect a city," said Maj. James West, a Marine intelligence officer. "There was enough to mount an insurgency across the country." One of the biggest finds was in the Saad Bin Abi Waqas Mosque, where fugitive insurgent leader Abdullah al-Janabi often preached. Documents found in the worship hall detailed interrogations of kidnap victims believed to have been held in Fallujah. U.S. commanders are not letting many of the city's 250,000 residents back to their homes until all weapons caches are found and destroyed or secured.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (8193)	12/8/2004 10:11:26 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

>>>Of the actual populations in the region, the Iranian public was the least anti American of all, but they are almost totally opposed to the US now I have not heard that. Have the young Iranians suddenly learned to love their mullocracy? Not according to Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran: Iranians welcome massively Bush's re-election To be honest, I've been hearing conflicting reports on what the Iranian street really is thinking so I probably shouldn't have said that. There are a lot of Persians here in the Silicon Valley bay area, but they're keeping a low profile and it's not easy to find out what anyone who knows the actual score is really thinking...