Iraq attacks against US troops up, book says
2006-09-29
Source: Boston Globe
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rss feedThe Bush administration is concealing the level of violence against US troops in Iraq and the situation there is growing worse despite White House and Pentagon claims of progress, journalist Bob Woodward said in advance of a new book.
Insurgent attacks against US-led forces in Iraq occurred, on average, every 15 minutes, Woodward said in a CBS "60 Minutes" interview taped for broadcast Sunday.
"It's getting to the point now where there are eight, 900 attacks a week. That's more than a hundred a day.
"That is four an hour attacking our forces," Woodward said in excerpts of the interview released yesterday before the release of his book on the administration, called "State of Denial."
"The assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse and, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon [saying] 'Oh, no, things are going to get better,' " Woodward added.
Parts of a National Intelligence Estimate that President Bush ordered released this week showed an upsurge in Islamic militancy, while a new UN report said the Iraq war was providing Al Qaeda with a training center and recruits.
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