WASHINGTON, April 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Bombings against the US-led coalition forces in Iraq and guerrilla attacks in Falluja were organized and often carried out by members of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's secret service, the New York Times reported Thursday.

    The New York Times article, quoting a Pentagon intelligence report, said Saddam's secret service planned for the insurgency even before the fall of Baghdad in April last year.

    Iraqi officers of the "Special Operations and Antiterrorism Branch," known within Saddam's government as M-14, were responsible for planning improvised roadside explosive devices and some of the larger car bombs that had killed Iraqis, Americans and other foreigners, the intelligence report was quoted as saying.

    Suicide bombers had worn explosive-laden vests made before the war under the direction of M-14, said the intelligence report which was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

    The report was based on interrogations of high-ranking M-14 members now in US custody and on documents discovered and translated by the Iraq Survey Group.

    The seven-page "Special Analysis" was written under Defense Intelligence Agency guidance by the Joint Intelligence Task Force which includes officers and analysts from across the civilian and military espionage community. Still unclear is whether the report represents a fully formed consensus or whether there might be dissenting assessments, the New York Times article said.

    The report, completed on March 26, was first mentioned publicly last week during testimony before the Senate and House Armed Services Committees by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Enditem