Word: guerrillas
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...Even if a solid plan is negotiated, formidable obstacles to success in Iraq remain. The guerrilla war continues. The hajj - the annual pilgrimage to Mecca - will set large numbers of people moving through the country in January and February and provide wonderful cover for troublemakers. Thousands of U.S. troops will rotate in and out of Iraq in March and April, a process that may be vulnerable to major terrorist strikes. Still, there finally appears to be the outline of a plan to move from the current chaos to a new Iraqi government, recognized and supported by the international community...
...party has to change to meet the new situation," explained Joe Trippi, Dean's campaign manager. "It's been a long time since Democrats were totally shut out of the government. We don't know how to be a true opposition party--to do the sort of guerrilla warfare that Newt Gingrich...
...hard at work, monitoring firing positions for their next assault. Spotters circle the area in taxis; others pose as workmen walking home and flip hand signals to passing colleagues. They all report to Abu Ali, a former officer in the Fedayeen Saddam militia who is well schooled in guerrilla tactics. A tall, sinewy figure with a weathered face, Abu Ali makes no secret of his ambition to attack Americans: "I want to kill all Bush's soldiers until they leave Iraq or it becomes their desert graveyard...
...Abdullah started planning for a guerrilla war when Baghdad fell, back in April. In the ensuing chaos, he and a few colleagues looted several ammunition stores. "For days we carried weapons and ammunition away and put them in hiding places," says Abu Abdullah, a chubby man in a gray robe. "We knew we would continue fighting the Americans." Abu Abdullah's wife encouraged him to fight the "infidels," he says. "If I am killed, she will be proud of me. We will meet in paradise." Abu Abdullah says he fights only for his convictions. "Nobody pays us to fight...
...home by Christmas. Instead, the seventh month following President Bush's May 1 declaration of an end to major combat in Iraq has proved to be the bloodiest yet for U.S. forces - 82 American troops, and a further 35 from coalition allies, were killed in an average of 30 guerrilla attacks a day. The remnants of Saddam's regime that failed to fight for Baghdad had instead scattered and reorganized themselves, and they together with a wider group of Iraqi Islamists and nationalists and a smattering of foreign jihadis began an insurgency that appears to have taken root in many...