Chalabi: All the reports about Foreign Extremists are Nonsense. They are only a small part of it. AFP

Chalabi said current resistance in the country was led by clandestine Baathists: All the reports about foreign extremists are nonsense, he said: They are only a small part of it. Agence France Presse July 31, 2004 US Iraq security plan a disaster: Chalabi DATELINE: MADRID Ahmed Chalabi, head

FJ Bing West, The Iraq Insurgency, WSJ, Iraq News note

NB: This account of the Iraqi insurgency, by an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, with its focus on the Sunni tribes, differs from Ahmad Chalabi's (AFP, Jul 31) account, with its emphasis on the Ba'athists. However, they concur on a key point: the core of the insurgency