Devildogg4ever
08-10-03, 06:01 AM
New York, August 10
Hundreds of terrorists, who fled Iraq during the war, have returned and are planning major terrorist attacks, information received by the American-led administration in Baghdad has revealed.
The top civilian administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer III, said that fighters from Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist organisation that the United States tried to destroy during the war, had escaped to Iran and then slipped back across the border into Iraq.
Hundreds of the terrorists are now in Iraq, where they were preparing to attack the occupation forces or administration, he was quoted by the New York Times as saying.
"The intelligence suggests that Ansar al-Islam is planning large-scale terrorist attacks in New York. So as long as we have, as I think we do, substantial numbers of Ansar terrorists around here I think we have to be pretty alert to the fact that we may see more of this," he said.
The Bush administration, the paper said, has asserted that Ansar has ties to Al-Qaeda. Officials of the occupying authority, including Bremer, said it was possible that Al-Qaeda is in Iraq, but they said there is no conclusive proof of that.
Bremer spoke with the Times a day after a car bomb attack ripped through the Jordanian Embassy in central Baghdad, killing 17 people and wounding scores more. It was the deadliest attack against civilians since the American military took control of Baghdad, and it represented a new type of security problem for the American-led occupation.
"We have seen here a new technique for Iraq that we have never seen before," Bremer said, referring to the car bomb used in the atack.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_334968,00050001.htm
Hundreds of terrorists, who fled Iraq during the war, have returned and are planning major terrorist attacks, information received by the American-led administration in Baghdad has revealed.
The top civilian administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer III, said that fighters from Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist organisation that the United States tried to destroy during the war, had escaped to Iran and then slipped back across the border into Iraq.
Hundreds of the terrorists are now in Iraq, where they were preparing to attack the occupation forces or administration, he was quoted by the New York Times as saying.
"The intelligence suggests that Ansar al-Islam is planning large-scale terrorist attacks in New York. So as long as we have, as I think we do, substantial numbers of Ansar terrorists around here I think we have to be pretty alert to the fact that we may see more of this," he said.
The Bush administration, the paper said, has asserted that Ansar has ties to Al-Qaeda. Officials of the occupying authority, including Bremer, said it was possible that Al-Qaeda is in Iraq, but they said there is no conclusive proof of that.
Bremer spoke with the Times a day after a car bomb attack ripped through the Jordanian Embassy in central Baghdad, killing 17 people and wounding scores more. It was the deadliest attack against civilians since the American military took control of Baghdad, and it represented a new type of security problem for the American-led occupation.
"We have seen here a new technique for Iraq that we have never seen before," Bremer said, referring to the car bomb used in the atack.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_334968,00050001.htm