PUT THEM IN CHARGE

Iraq Governing Council Warned Of Attack (Reuters, 8/20/03)

A member of Iraq's Governing Council says the Council had warned U.S. authorities that Saddam Hussein loyalists and Muslim militants had met to plan a major attack on a "soft target" in Baghdad.

Ahmad Chalabi, one of 25 members of the U.S.-appointed Council, told a news conference on Wednesday that on August 14 the Council received intelligence that a meeting had been held at which Saddam supporters and militants discussed an attack either against the headquarters of an Iraqi political party or the United Nations.

"It specifically said that this attack would take place using a truck to be detonated either through a suicide mechanism or through electronic detonation," Chalabi said, adding that the information had been passed on to the Americans in Iraq.

It's long past time to put Iraqis in charge of Iraq and let them do what must be done. Bring our guys home for some family time before they move on to the next battle. Posted by Orrin Judd at August 20, 2003 2:23 PM