IRAQI RESISTANCE

AP: Insurgency 'Not About Saddam'

SAMARA, Iraq (AP) -- A former Iraqi general who claims to be part of the insurgency against US troops says the guerilla war around this "Sunni Triangle" city is being waged by small groups fighting on their own without direction from Saddam Hussein or others.

He and two other Samara men, who said they are in separate guerilla units, insisted in interviews with The Associated Press that their fight was not aimed at returning Saddam to power. They said it was about ending the US-led occupation and restoring Iraqi rule.

"I am fighting for my country - not Saddam Hussein - to get rid of the infidels. Very few people are fighting for him. They gave up on him at the end of the war," one of the men, an unemployed electrical engineer, said

"Soviel zur Verschwoerung vom boesen Saddam der im Hintergrund die Strippen zieht"