Death, Sabotage and Menace Greet Iraq Economic Plan

[Terran]

Death, Sabotage and Menace Greet Iraq Economic Plan

By Nadim Ladki

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More killings, reports of rising sabotage and a CIA (news - web sites) assessment that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) may be lurking in the shadows greeted an economic reconstruction plan from Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.S. civilian administrator Paul Bremer on Monday.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed and four wounded overnight in a spate of guerrilla attacks which also left at least two Iraqis dead and one wounded, the U.S. military and witnesses said.

The continuing attacks, CIA confirmation that ousted leader Saddam Hussein had probably spoken out on a tape and a plea to help stop rising sabotage have heightened the sense that U.S. and British occupation forces are facing organized resistance in Sunni Muslim central Iraq, once the cradle of Saddam's support.

more--Reuters story

(If this isn't considered breaking, feel free to move--Dirk)

[J B]

1. Soldiers dying? Old news now.

Reconstruction failing? Insurgents rising in numbers and boldness? Yesterday's headlines.

The sad way of the world.

[Barrett808]

2. Suggestions will "be taken seriously"

The 37-member council can only offer suggestions to U.S.-controlled bodies running the chaotic city of five million people. But Bremer pledged their ideas would be taken seriously.

Just like they are here in Bush's America.

[Sick of Bullshit]

3. Which is to say

if the ideas don't emanate from the rich and powerful, they're dismissed as merely coming from "focus groups"