insurgent campaign. «We are adamant that we are going to defeat terrorism,» Allawi told reporters. «We intend to confront them and bring them to justice.» Interior Minister Falah Hassan al-Naqib suggested the insurgent attacks could be in response to a government operations against the Adel neighborhood of west Baghdad, an insurgent hotbed. However, the scope of the attacks suggested they had been in preparation for some time. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged that the U.S.-led coalition faces a «difficult time» in Iraq but said the United States has a plan to quash the insurgency and bring those areas under control in time for national elections in January. --More 2252 Local Time 1952 GMT
