Anti-Iraqi Forces

An upsurge in car bomb attacks in Iraq in recent weeks was ordered by al Qaeda's leader in the country, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, at a meeting of insurgents in Syria, a senior U.S. military officer said on Wednesday.

The shift toward more car bomb attacks is part of a wave of violence that has killed more than 400 Iraqis in the past three weeks and marks a change in tactics by an ever adapting insurgency, the officer said.

Zarqawi "wasn't happy with how the insurgency was going," he told reporters, adding that the Jordanian militant had ordered greater use of vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs), the U.S. military acronym for car bombs.

"Zarqawi directed that people start using more VBIEDs and to use them more in everyday operations," the officer said.

Now, how would the "senior U.S. military officer" know this? If the "Multinational Force" had infiltrated Zarqawi's organisation, right? If so, it'd also, presumably, know specific details regarding when and where such attacks would be employed. Yet it was still unable to prevent them?

So, the "Multinational Force" can bomb away at houses containing "suspected terrorists", but it can't prevent known terrorists, with known plans from carrying out acts of terrorism.

It follows either that the "senior U.S. military officer" is lying, or that the U.S. military for some reason wants the attacks to take place. Given the level of incompetence of every single element of the liberators' "Operation", one suspects the former. But the latter wouldn't be all that surprising, either.

Posted by Eddie Tews at May 18, 2005 08:21 AM