What I saw - and passed on to US intelligence agencies - were what might be called the blueprints of the postwar insurgency that the US now faces in Iraq. And they implied two important facts that US authorities must understand:


* The tools and tactics killing Americans today in Iraq are those of the former regime, not imported from abroad.

* The anti-US resistance in Iraq today is Iraqi in nature, and more broadly based and deeply rooted than acknowledged... Scott Ritter | Defining the Resistance in Iraq (t r u t h o u t)