Article: ME GEN Iraq Abizaid Interview

ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
AP Worldstream
02-13-2004
Dateline: CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar
One day after coming under attack in Iraq, the U.S. Army general who runs the war said Friday in an Associated Press interview that he believes it was a random assault. He discounted suggestions the insurgents may have been tipped off to his movements.

"I think it was random, sure," Gen. John Abizaid said, speaking in his office at Central Command's Persian Gulf headquarters, where he returned Thursday night after two days of visiting troops in Iraq.

He said he was not convinced that his security had been breached. More likely, he said, the insurgents who fired three rocket-propelled grenades from a ...

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