In the Triangle of Terror

[Kellanved]

Another translated Article by Germany's der Spiegel weekly. If you go there have a look at this interview with Senator Lugar as well.
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/english/


Between Daily Chaos and Bombings - Baghdad's Clueless Occupiers.


Attacks, assassinations, robberies. Baghdad descends into chaos as US troops lose a little more control over the city each day. The attack on UN headquarters has added a new quality to terror on the Tigris, as other Western foreigners join US soldiers as potential targets.

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Whether the attack was the work of supporters of deposed President Saddam Hussein or Islamic extremists, or perhaps both, remains unclear. Last Thursday, a previously unknown group calling itself the "Armed Vanguards of Mohammed's Second Army" claimed responsibility for the murderous attack. Terrorism experts are convinced that this is simply a randomly chosen name for the Iraqi terrorist organization Ansar al-Islam, and that it could quickly change again.
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Whether the attack was the work of supporters of deposed President Saddam Hussein or Islamic extremists, or perhaps both, remains unclear. Last Thursday, a previously unknown group calling itself the "Armed Vanguards of Mohammed's Second Army" claimed responsibility for the murderous attack. Terrorism experts are convinced that this is simply a randomly chosen name for the Iraqi terrorist organization Ansar al-Islam, and that it could quickly change again.

What is clear, however, is that the United States has managed to "transform Iraq into a hotbed of terrorism," as the New York Times wrote after the attack. President Bush' governor in Baghdad, Paul Bremer, visited the site of the catastrophe a few hours after the attack, later issuing the appeasing statement: "We have no chaos here."

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http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/english/0,1518,262769,00.html