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President Bush is counting on men like Aziz and Abbas to halt the escalating violence convulsing post-Saddam Iraq. Just as U.S. forces thought they were getting a handle on security, a series of coordinated, deadly attacks last week raised the Administration's Iraq troubles to an alarming new level. One day after rockets slammed into Baghdad's al-Rashid Hotel, where Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying, the city was hit by four bombings within 45 minutes--three at police stations and one at the headquarters of the Red Cross. Thirty-four Iraqis and one American were killed...
...Coalition Provisional Authority, led by proconsul Paul Bremer, is opening a media center in Baghdad similar to the one set up in Qatar during major combat operations. "We have a story to tell," says a senior official. Part of the story last week was a fresh campaign to unearth Saddam Hussein; if it succeeds, officials hope, the resistance will dissipate...
...hardly surprising that a whiff of desperation hung over the Administration as it tried to assign blame for the 48 harrowing hours of bombing in Baghdad. Some officials continued to insist that most of the insurgents were Saddam loyalists. Others said the sophistication of four nearly simultaneous attacks indicated the work of foreign fighters--Islamic radicals from outside Iraq, perhaps representing al-Qaeda or the related terrorist group Ansar al-Islam. Several Administration officials told TIME that Hizballah, the Lebanese Shi'ite militia, is becoming more active in Iraq. Pentagon officials leaked word that captured insurgents had claimed that Iraqi...
...number of intelligence officials in the U.S. and Iraq who have reviewed summaries of communications intercepts and agent reports told TIME these theories--about foreign fighters, Izzat Ibrahim and Saddam--are based on supposition more than evidence. A man with a Syrian passport who tried to carry out a fifth car bombing last week was captured. Iraqis insist it is not in the psychology of their compatriots to engage in suicide attacks. But the intelligence officials say the U.S. can't really determine if there has been a significant influx of Islamists or terrorists into the country. And if foreigners...
...former deputy to Jay Garner, the first, short-lived civilian administrator in Iraq, says he thought the plan was to employ most of the soldiers in reconstruction tasks after Saddam fell. But civilians at the Pentagon and in the office of the Vice President agreed with Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the former exile opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress, that full de-Baathification of the military was essential. In May, two weeks after Bremer took over as proconsul in Baghdad, he ordered the army completely demobilized. Many U.S. officials involved in post-Saddam Iraq now feel this was a poor...