  Al-Qaida terrorists and the remains of Saddam Hussein's regime have developed an organized plan to retake control of Baghdad, according to Iraqi government sources, reports Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service. The sources told the Al-Taakhi newspaper last week that "coordination and cooperation" exists between al-Qaida and former regime elements, including Baath Party members, Republican Guard soldiers, former security service officers, the Fedayeen Saddam paramilitary forces and the northern Iraqi group Ansar al-Islam. Director of Iraqi Intelligence Muhammad al-Shahwani is worried by the continuous infiltration into Iraq of Afghan Arabs coming in from Iran and Syria, the sources said. Iraqi Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib recently traveled to Damascus to meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad to discuss Syria's role in the infiltration. The sources also said large numbers of Iranian intelligence operatives have entered southern Iraq and have successfully blocked establishment of an Iraqi intelligence service office in Basra. The former regime fighters and al-Qaida terrorists have set up cells in the Baghdad suburbs and in Fallujah. The terrorists plan to coordinate bombing and suicide attacks in several Iraqi cities to produce "security anarchy," the sources said. Bombings are to be followed by armed attacks on police. The plans call for strikes from northern Baghdad and Diyala, then moving to attacks on the regions of Rashidiyah, Tarmiyah and extending to Abu Ghraib regions and then to the Al-Rashid administrative subdistrict and Al-Nasr administrative subdistrict, Yousifiyah, Al-Mahmudiyah and Al-Latifiyah in the south.
The objective is to surround Baghdad on all sides with insurgents and attempt to retake the city. The plan has begun with the series of 18 bombings two weeks ago. However, the plan was thwarted when word of it leaked out to Iraqi authorities. Currently, Iraqi and U.S. authorities are conducting mopping up operations in Baqubah, Al-Dhulu'iyah, Balad, Fallujah and Karmah in addition to sections of Beji and some areas of Mosul.
In a break from the past, the car bombs in Mosul were believed to be the work of the Islamist Kurd group Ansar al-Islam, not the Zarqawi network. Zarqawi terrorists have conducted operations in Baqubah. --Terrorist scum!!! Andrew B. 
