Middle East analyst Juan Cole is reporting a Baqubah mosque leader was arrested by Iraqi police for allegedly urging on the resistance and funding it. The preacher, Shaikh Muhammad Ali Samarra’i, regularly uses his Friday prayers sermons to call for a rejection of U.S. presence in Iraq. Meanwhile the New York Times is reporting that senior Bush administration officials are now admitting privately that Iraq’s resistance has significantly more fighters and far greater financial resources than had been previously estimated.