Tuesday, December 02, 2003

This is quite interesting: the Al-Arabi newspaper in Cairo published a study by an Iraqi researcher, `Abdul-Karim Al-`Uluji, in which he details the names and nature of Iraqi resistance organizations. He lists some 27 different names of organizations that have claimed responsibility for attacks against various targets in Iraq (and Arab media cannot publicize their names or proclamations because the royal decree by Paul Bremer bans that) in Iraq. According to his list, the primary element of the resistance is comprised of Islamic fundamentalist groups, followed by different Arab nationalist and Iraqi nationalist groups, and in third place are the groups that are loyal to the deposed Iraqi regime. This of course clashes with the picture that is presented by US media about all these groups being loyal to the previous regime. This proves that Gen. Abizaid was right: Saddam is NOT capable of leading or planning an military campaign of any kind. He is too incompetent. (I have not read the aforementioned report in AlArabi. The website of the paper has been off for a few days. I read about it in an article by Fahmi Al-Huwaydi in As-Safir newspaper today).