FWD: Secret CIA report notes loss of Iraqi faith in U.S.
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Sun Nov 16 10:24:30 CST 2003
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Secret CIA report notes loss of Iraqi faith in U.S.
Douglas Jehl NYT Friday, November 14, 2003
WASHINGTON A bleak top-secret report by the Central Intelligence Agency
suggests that the situation in Iraq is approaching a crucial turning point,
with ordinary Iraqis losing faith in American-led occupation forces and in
the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council.
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The report, sent to Washington on Monday by the CIA's Baghdad station chief,
suggests that the situation is creating a more fertile environment for the
anti-American insurgency.
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Officials said the report was adding to the sense of urgency behind the
administration's reappraisal of its policies in Iraq.
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The officials said that the report, dated Nov. 10, had been explicitly
endorsed by L. Paul Bremer 3rd, the top American official in Iraq, and that
the warnings it spelled out had been a factor behind Bremer's abrupt return
to Washington for consultations this week.
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The CIA and the White House refused even to confirm the existence of the
report, which was first disclosed by The Philadelphia Inquirer. But
government officials outside those agencies said that its conclusions were
among the darkest intelligence assessments distributed since the
American-led invasion of Iraq in March.
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