‘Iraq war spawned terrorism, radicals’

[KashifAsrar]

‘Iraq war spawned terrorism, radicals’


US Intelligence Report Puts Blame On Invasion



Washington: A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the September 11 attacks.
The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment. The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by US intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe. An opening section of the report, “Indicators of the Spread of the Global Jihadist Movement,” cites the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jehad ideology.
The report “says that the Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse,” said one American intelligence official.
More than a dozen US officials and experts were interviewed, and all spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were discussing a classified intelligence document. The officials included employees of several government agencies, and both supporters and critics of the Bush administration. All of those interviewed had either seen the final version of the document or participated in the creation of earlier drafts. These officials discussed some of the document’s general conclusions but not details, which remain highly classified.
The report mentions the possibility that Islamic militants who fought in Iraq could return to their home countries, “exacerbating domestic conflicts or fomenting radical ideologies.” The estimate concludes that the radical Islamic movement has expanded from a core of Qaida operatives and affiliated groups to include a new class of “self-generating” cells inspired by Al Qaida’s leadership but without any direct connection to Osama bin Laden or his top lieutenants. NYT NEWS SERVICE

Web video shows US troops being burned

Cairo: An Al Qaida-linked group posted a Web video on Saturday purporting to show the bodies of two American soldiers being dragged behind a truck, then set on fire in apparent retaliation for the alleged rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by US troops from the same unit.
The Mujahedeen Shura Council — an umbrella organisation of insurgent groups, including Al Qaida in Iraq — posted a previous video in June showing the soldiers’ mutilated bodies, and claiming it killed them. It was not clear whether Saturday’s video was a continuation of that footage, or why it was released.
The new footage came hours after the posting of another Qaida video, an apparent re-release of a tape showing the execution of a Turkish hostage — by the man purported to be the new leader of Al Qaida in Iraq. The images would be the first of Abu Ayyub al-Masri to be released since the group announced that he had succeeded al-Zarqawi, who was killed by a US airstrike on June 7. Both videos appeared just as Sunni Arabs began Ramadan. US officials have warned that attacks could intensify during Ramadan. AP

 

[Skeptic786]

i think they simply plagerised this from the british intelligence reports on this topic..which said essentially the same.......actually word for word.