Rumsfeld warns of disruption in US plans
Iraqi insurgents pose potential threat, he says
By Sewell Chan, Washington Post, 2/23/2004
KUWAIT -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld cautioned yesterday that plans to shift the US military presence in Iraqi cities to outlying areas could be disrupted by the continuing insurgency, which he attributed to "terrorist networks" and Al Qaeda guerrillas that he said were trying to fracture Iraqi society.