The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest

Vol: 31 Issue: 29 - Thursday, April 29, 2004

No Wonder Nobody is Talking
by Jack Kinsella

This morning's headlines are inaccurately reporting that a peace deal had
been negotiated between the Fallujah fighters and the US and that the
Marines were pulling out and being replaced by elements of the Iraqi
military.  Shortly after the story hit the wire services, the Pentagon
denied it, saying that at the moment, the two sides aren't even talking.
Such a deal seems unlikely, in any case.

The uprisings in Fallujah and Najaf were organized and often carried out
by members of Saddam Hussein's secret service, who planned for the
insurgency even before the fall of Baghdad, according to a Pentagon
intelligence report.

The report states that Iraqi officers of the "Special Operations and
Antiterrorism Branch," known within Hussein's government as Force M-14,
are responsible for planning roadway improvised explosive devices and some
of the larger car bombs that have killed Iraqis, Americans and other
foreigners.

Suicide bombers are using explosives-laden vests made before the war under
the direction of of M-14 officers, according to the report, prepared by
the Defense Intelligence Agency. The report also cites evidence that one
such suicide attack last April, which killed three Americans, was carried
out by a pregnant woman who was also an M-14 colonel.

The report's findings were based on interrogations with high-ranking M-14
members who are now in American custody, as well as on documents uncovered
and translated by the Iraq Survey Group.

The seven-page "Special Analysis" was written under Defense Intelligence
Agency guidance by the Joint Intelligence Task Force, which includes
officers and analysts from across the civilian and military espionage
community.

The document says that "cells of former M-14 personnel are organizing and
conducting a terrorist I.E.D. campaign against coalition forces throughout
Iraq. The explosives section of M-14 prepared for the invasion by
constructing hundreds of suicide vests and belts for use by Saddam
Fedayeen against coalition forces." The fedayeen are former government
paramilitary forces that attacked American forces on the initial offensive
toward Baghdad, and are said to be among the insurgents still fighting
today.

The report says that under Saddam, M-14 was responsible for "hijackings,
assassinations and explosives," and that its officers are responsible for
"the majority of attacks" today. In one detailed section, it describes how
M-14 organized "Tiger Groups" of 15 to 20 volunteers trained in explosives
and small-arms who would organize and carry out bombings, including
suicide attacks.
 
 

Assessment:

Much is being made of the breadth and depth of Iraqi resistance to the
US-led occupation, particularly by the press.  They are fond of pointing
out that, far from being greeted as 'liberators', our troops are occupying
conquerors fighting against Iraqi 'resistance'.

Now would be a good time to point out that a significant number of these
alleged 'Iraqi' resistance fighters aren't Iraqis, but members of
al-Qaeda.  According to the Pentagon, one in ten resistance fighters are
foreign, and the rest are members of the Feyadeen Saddam and Force M-14.

So, why would these guys fight for Saddam, even after he was toppled,
arrested and imprisoned as an enemy POW?  It is obvious to even the most
dedicated Ba'athist fighter that Saddam isn't coming back to power.  There
is no reward awaiting them from Saddam's treasure chest -- that's in
custody as well.

To the global press corps eager to give the US a black eye,  it is
evidence that America is an overbearing occupation force that bit off more
than it can chew.  Saddam wasn't REALLY as evil a dictator as Washington
made him out to be.  After all, look at all the loyalists still willing to
die for Saddam.

Unspun, there are, according to military estimates, about 1,500 fighters
out of an Iraqi population of about fifty million people.  These are the
guys who, during Saddam's reign of terror, cut out the tongues of their
fellow citizens.

They ran the prisons and torture chambers, rounded up people in the middle
of the night, participated in public torture and executions, and stood
behind the weapons that mowed down the victims found in all those mass
graves.

They aren't willing to 'die for Saddam' -- they are fighting because they
have no other choice. They can die fighting Americans, or they disarm and
subsequently be torn apart by their Iraqi victims and their surviving
relatives.

Meanwhile, they roam the countryside in heavily armed groups,  threatening
death and destruction to anybody who cooperates with the Americans.
Ordinary Iraqis know Americans won't kill them if they don't talk, but
that the insurgents will if they do.

A similar situation exists with the weapons of mass destruction.  The
media has concluded those weapons don't exist because captured Iraqi
scientists failed to give any up after the fall of Saddam.  Therefore, the
weapons don't exist, since those scientists have no loyalty to Saddam and
Saddam has no power over them anymore.

Wrong.  At least eight Iraqi scientists have been killed in the past few
months by Iraqi terrorists.  No wonder nobody is talking!

An examination of the mainstream news coverage of the situation in Iraq
says little or nothing of any of this.  Instead, the Fallujah and Najaf
uprising are evidence of Iraqi discontent with their American occupiers.
Ambassador Bremer dropped the ball and should be fired.  The Bush
administration went to war without a post-war plan.  The US should have
waited for UN support.  Inspections were working.  Vote for John Kerry!

'Truth' in the 21st century, isn't what is actually true, but is instead
what people BELIEVE to be true.  The world is already preconditioned for
the eventual fulfillment of Paul's prophecy for the last days; "And for
this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a
lie:" (2 Thessalonians  2:11)

And there are no shortage of liars to help move things along.