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Us warns of increased iraq attacks { November 9 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=401040§ion=news http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=401040§ion=news http://www.reuters.co.uk/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=400977 U.S. warns of increased Iraq attacks Sun November 09, 2003 11:41 PM ET By Dean Yates BAGHAD (Reuters) - Iraq's U.S. governor Paul Bremer warns guerrillas will step up attacks to stop reconstruction efforts and says several hundred foreign militants have entered the country. Bremer vowed in an interview with The Times newspaper U.S.-led forces would not be driven out of Iraq by the militants because the price of failure was too high for the country itself and the Middle East. "We're going to have increased attacks and increased terrorism because the terrorist can see the reconstruction dynamic is moving in our direction," said Bremer, adding the foreign fighters were from Sudan, Syria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. "It will be more of a problem in the months ahead unless the intelligence gets better," he said. Washington, which has lost 150 soldiers to hostile fire since President George W. Bush declared major combat over on May 1, blames the attacks on Saddam Hussein supporters and foreign fighters, including al Qaeda members. "Consequences of us not succeeding here would be very grave. They are for the Iraqis fatal, perhaps for the Middle East almost as fatal," Bremer told the Times. He was quoted as saying an Iraqi "special force" to counter rising militancy would probably not include former members of Saddam's intelligence services, but it was "not impossible". Sympathising with the Iraqi people, he said it was "not comfortable being occupied", but added: "And it's not comfortable being an occupying power." BLASTS IN BAGHDAD Several loud explosions echoed across Baghdad on Sunday night and police said a mortar bomb hit a house in the city centre, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. It appeared to be the fourth mortar attack by guerrillas in a week on the capital. Guerrillas have grown increasingly bold in launching mortar attacks on the U.S.-led administration on the west side of the Tigris River. No one has been killed, but several personnel in the U.S.-led coalition have been wounded. U.S. warplanes bombed targets in Iraq on Sunday in air strikes that resumed last week for the first time in more than six months after the recent shooting down of three U.S. helicopters. In the latest air strikes, F-16 fighter-bombers dropped three 500-pound bombs near the flashpoint town of Falluja, in an area west of Baghdad where 16 U.S. soldiers were killed when a U.S. Chinook helicopter was downed. The air strikes followed attacks on U.S. troops, a U.S. military source said. He had no precise details. U.S. troops in Saddam's home town of Tikrit have launched a new operation in the hostile area to hunt down guerrillas. "If necessary, we'll carry out more shows of force," said Major Josslyn Aberle, spokeswoman for the 4th Infantry Division. Saddam remains at large after being toppled from power by U.S.-led forces in April. Iraq's interim Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council would meet a December 15 deadline for setting out a path towards self-rule. The pledge was made amid frustration expressed by occupation officials that Iraqi politicians have not moved more quickly to draw up plans for taking over power. "The ball is now in our court and we must deliver," Zebari said on the issue of creating a new constitution and when to hold elections. Zebari said the December 15 deadline would be met, although implementation of the political plan depended on security. An official of the U.S.-led coalition told Reuters there was "fairly strong frustration" over the Governing Council's slow progress as it had been made clear the constitution should be the top priority when the body was formed in July. "Where are we four months on? We haven't moved yet," the official said.

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