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Foreign Terrorists Use Iraqis to Achieve Their Aims
By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2004 – Terror groups from other countries are going out of
their way to use Iraqi citizens in pursuing their objectives, a coalition military
official said at a Baghdad news conference today.
"They have demonstrated time after time that the foreign terrorists will fight to
the last Iraqi to achieve their aims here in Iraq," said Army Brig. Gen. Mark
Kimmitt, deputy operations director for Combined Joint Task force 7.
The coalition has no indication the foreign fighters are working in concert with
or alongside Iraqi anti-coalition elements, Kimmitt said. Former Iraqi regime
elements and criminals – as well as foreign terrorist groups such as al Qaeda –
still pose a threat and get the same kind of focus and attention from coalition
and Iraqi security forces.
"We just don't necessarily differentiate them into different groups," the general
said. "We see them as threats to the coalition. We see them as threats to the
Iraqi people. As soon as we gain intelligence, we use that for actionable
intelligence and conduct operations to kill or capture."
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, Coalition Provisional Authority administrator,
warned one foreign terror group – the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK
and by other names as well – that there is "no place for terrorism or terrorist
organizations in the new Iraq" in a Jan. 28 statement.
"Ambassador Bremer has said for some time, as has President Bush, that Iraq is now
the central front in the war on terrorism," coalition spokesman Dan Senor said at
today's news conference, "and that we will pursue terrorists in this country with
great intensity."
Senor said PKK and its affiliate organizations have been operating in Iraq, and
Bremer's statement put them on notice that the coalition will continue to pursue
them. "We will continue to capture or kill them," Senor said.
Biography: Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III http://www.cpa-iraq.org/bios/index.html
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