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...loyal to Saddam was illustrated last Saturday morning when an Iraqi suicide bomber killed four G.I.s at a checkpoint north of the central Iraqi city of Najaf. A senior intelligence official told TIME that the U.S. believes its forces are also under threat from Mujahidin-e Khalq, a militant Iranian group that operates in southern Iraq opposed to the government in Tehran. "That will be an important thing to watch," says the official. "They've been generously supplied and supported by the [Iraqi] regime...
...Iraqi officials accuse the U.S. of war crimes too--namely dropping bombs on civilians (a Geneva infringement only if intentional). It's hard to take such claims seriously when they come from a regime that has so enthusiastically defied Geneva for years: gassing civilian Kurds and torturing American and Iranian POWs in previous wars are just two examples...
...Another disturbing trend is that the 9,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan are being drawn into battles between warlords who are weakening President Hamid Karzai's government. In December, after an American vehicle was fired upon near the Iranian border, the U.S. sent in warplanes to quiet two sparring militias. More recently, on March 22 in Paktia province, the U.S. called in air strikes against warlord Pacha Khan Zadran, whose men had set up roadblocks and were shaking down travelers. Several militiamen were killed in the air raid, including Zadran's eldest son. Zadran had been considered an ally...
...defense 4,000 ft. high among the peaks. The area, near the town of Halabja, has always been a redoubt: it is full of deep caves and secretive routes for escape and supply (nicknamed "rat-lines") across the rugged frontier with Iran. "They're ex-filling across the Iranian border," says one Special Forces soldier, using commando lingo for "escaping." For despite the acumen of Ansar's snipers, the peshmerga offensive had succeeded and hundreds of Kurdish troops-along with about 100 American commandoes-advanced into the terrorist stronghold. "My perception is that Ansar's delaying action...
...added that Iraq's exotic weapons programs also involved the use of psycho-tropic agents similar to LSD. ?They were not meant to kill, just incapacitate, confuse,? says the inspector. This had been designed, he says, as a means to fight off rag-tag Iranian forces in the late 1980?s during the long war between Baghdad and Tehran. The other WMD weapons Iraq may still have were initially designed to ?fight off Iranian human wave attacks, they really weren't meant against a force like the U.S. military...