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U.S. ruling out Iraq as attack sponsor in bid for coalition
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Thursday, September 13, 2001
U.S. intelligence sources in the Middle East say the White House has
ruled out
focusing blame on Iraq as the sponsor of the kamikaze attacks in New
York
and Washington and has instead given priority to assembling an
international
coalition against terrorism.
The United States has launched a painstaking search in the Middle East
for the
sponsors of the attacks in which thousands of Americans died, Middle
East
Newsline reported.
A key aim in the U.S. intelligence-gathering effort is to form links
between
various Islamic factions. The sources said the Pentagon and the CIA are
convinced that the hijackers killed in their suicide crashes were
either linked to
an Islamic terrorist network or sent by a government that was concealed
behind an organization front.
Israeli intelligence officials briefed the Cabinet of Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon
on late Tuesday, hours after the catastrophe in New York and
Washington and
were quoted as telling the Cabinet that a Middle East government was
probably the sponsor of the attack. The most likely sponsor for such
an attack,
they said, is Iraq.
"We're talking about an operation that was extremely well-planned and
compartmentalized," a U.S. defense source in the region said. "Such a
case
could take years to complete and we simply don't have that amount of
time."
U.S. officials said the White House has already reached several
conclusions
regarding the sponsor of the attacks. They said the administration has
for now
determined that neither Iraq nor any other country was behind the
hijackings.
Instead, the administration has fingered Bin Laden for the attacks, in
which
President George Bush was a target.
U.S. intelligence officers around the Middle East were ordered to
contact all of
their sources for any leads that might shed light on a regional link
to the suicide
jet crashes. They were also ordered to review open-source material in
the
Arabic, Farsi and Urdu media that could provide a hint as to the plans
to hijack
U.S. airliners and crash them into major population centers.
"The way we see it, there's something out there in the open-source
that we've
missed," a U.S. intelligence source said. "We're trying to go back and
put the
pieces together."
The sources said the U.S. effort depends on the cooperation of
governments in
the region. They said they expect the effort to proceed slowly.
U.S. officials said Egypt and Jordan are being recruited for an
international
coalition against terrorism. They said U.S. Secretary of State Colin
Powell
called his counterparts in Amman and Cairo to discuss such an alliance.
FBI agents have already identified at least 50 Arab infiltrators who
were
allegedly involved in the hijackings and crashes. The FBI has also
identified two
Arab students in a Florida flight school, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al
Shehhi, as allegedly being involved in the suicide crashes. The two
entered the
U.S. from Germany claiming to be Afghan students.
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