Report: CIA warned US government of post-war Iraqi resistance

From: Al Bawaba | Date: September 9, 2003 | Copyright information

The CIA and other US intelligence agencies warned Bush administration policymakers prior to the war against Iraq that the post-war period would pose more problems than the war itself, and that there would be significant resistance to a US-led occupation, The Washington Post reported. In its Tuesday edition, the Post, citing congressional and administration officials said that the post- war scenarios presented by the CIA and its counterpart agencies in the Pentagon and State Department were more "pessimistic" than top Pentagon officials expressed before the war, but their views generally ...

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