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...them out. A force or group of forces capable of launching 33 attacks a day on American troops remains, for the most part, invisible to the coalition forces. And it's not that they're melting away into the jungle or the mountains; they're melting away into the civilian population. The civilian population of Baghdad and the Sunni triangle has proved sufficiently permissive to these fighters that they've managed to increase the scale of their insurgency. The frequency and intensity of attacks, and the range of munitions and tactics used suggest an insurgency growing in sophistication and confidence...
...focus of the attacks is shifting to soft targets like embassies, police stations, government buildings. As a result, more and more of the dead are Iraqis, although no one seems to be keeping an official tally. An independent group called Iraq Body Count, a team of researchers tracking civilian deaths, estimates that at least 1,500 Iraqis died violently in Baghdad alone from April 14 through Aug. 31. That works out to more than 10 Iraqi fatalities for every coalition death during the same period. The effect has been to renew anxieties among ordinary citizens, especially in the Iraqi capital...
...stanch the political, diplomatic and actual bleeding over Iraq. There are turf wars everywhere. The CIA is at war with the White House; the Pentagon is at war with the State Department and the National Security Council (NSC); some elements of the uniformed military are furious with the civilian leadership of the Pentagon, partly for launching the attack against Iraq in the first place without enough allied support. The fault lines are largely between moderate diplomatic and military traditionalists and more aggressive neoconservatives and nationalists...
...reconstruction efforts in Iraq. He said he hadn't been consulted in advance. He implied that Rice's effort wasn't very important, anyway. Rumors of a Pentagon boycott of the process began to bubble when the political, economic and counterterrorism group meetings were either canceled or held without civilian Pentagon participation. An NSC source offered the plausible argument that these were just logistical problems with a new process. But the instantaneous rumors were typical of the Administration's foreign-policy mess...
...cannot be terrorists, but a terrorist organization cannot operate or exist without the monetary help and political protection of an established state. Nations that fund, support and harbor terrorist groups enable them to carry out their horrific attacks. These nations are directly responsible for the ensuing terrorist acts and civilian deaths. These nations, therefore, are indeed terrorists...