[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l digest, Vol 1 #236 - 14 msgs

[Ray Saintonge]

Zoe wrote:

> The UN inspectors were closely followed by Iraqi handlers.  The 
> American trooops have none, and also have the cooperation of the 
> locals, which the inspectors did not, because the locals were afraid 
> of Hussein's backlash.
>
> Zoe
>
This was not the case of the inspectors who went in because of 
resolution 1441.  The co-operation of the locals has been significantly 
less than expected, notably in the Shia south where there has typically 
been an anti-Saddam tradition.  The capture of Umm-Qasr has been more 
difficult than expected, and troops have not gone into Basra at all. 
 For many Iraqis the issue has become less a matter of preserving 
Saddam's regime than of protecting the integrity of the country.  

Ec