US shifting focus, agents from Kabul to Baghdad

Boston Globe ^ | 8/18/2003 | Bryan Bender

[Lance Romance]

WASHINGTON -- As the hunt for Saddam Hussein grows more urgent and the guerrilla war in Iraq shows little sign of abating, the Bush administration is continuing to shift highly specialized intelligence officers from the hunt for Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan to the Iraq crisis, according to intelligence officials who have been involved in the redeployments.

[Lance Romance]

As the hunt for Saddam Hussein grows more urgent and the guerrilla war in Iraq shows little sign of abating, the Bush administration is continuing to shift highly specialized intelligence officers from the hunt for Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan to the Iraq crisis, according to intelligence officials who have been involved in the redeployments.

Another Globe "Newsitorial" replete with un-named sources. I would hardly call this a guerilla war. More of a nuisance than anything else.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Guerrilla wars usually start small. As guerrilla wars go (e.g. just shutting down an entire pipeline again!) this one is pretty far long.