Saturday, December 23, 2006

The elements that want a ceasefire are in control. No doubt in my mind they operate covertly after hours from being legitimate police officers.

It's all there. If they can put forward a ceasefire and then assassinate an Iraqi intelligence officer as a show of strength, then what we are seeing in Baghdad is a movement that cannot be controlled or eliminated. It can't be identified. The name of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi is a AS KNOWN AS. That is a name that indicates he is a leader of the Baghdad resistance/rebellion. It is a character designation. I doubt seriously any of the men he is affiliated with in his resistance movement even know him by this name. If you asked them if they knew of anyone by that name, I sincerely doubt they'd know who you were speaking of and mean it. They would not know him as his PR name. That is my estimation.

Gunmen slay Iraqi intelligence officer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi military intelligence officer was slain in a drive-by shooting on Saturday south of Baghdad, police said.

Gunmen attacked 1st Lt. Hussein Jabir at 7:30 a.m. as he was leaving his home in downtown Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, police said.

Also Saturday, U.S.-led forces killed one person and detained nine other suspects in a raid on a militant hideout in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

"Intelligence reports indicated terrorists with ties to the al-Qaida in Iraq network were operating in the targeted building," the military said in a statement.