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After the attack, Abed launched an investigation to gain insights into the nature of the new threat. Most of the attackers, he found, were from Fallujah but were led and guided by a small core of local insurgents. The attackers' objective, he concluded, was not just to inflict casualties but also to seize a high-visibility target. "They knew that even if they got into the station, we would eventually have killed them all," says Abed. "But they wanted to make a political statement: 'If you can take Fallujah, we can take your police stations...
...power is used in cities, despite the best intentions and technological capabilities of those dropping the bombs. That's precisely why the rebels hide out among the civilian population: They know better than to isolate themselves as a target for their enemy's superior firepower, instead forcing him to inflict casualties on the civilian population in order to kill enemy combatants, thereby creating a force multiplier for the insurgency. And it's a relatively safe bet that the extent of civilian casualties in Iraq has reinforced the insurgency...
...that their forces have killed as many as 1,000 enemy fighters and that most of the ravaged city is under U.S. control. If the goal, as a senior U.S. official says, is to "break up the scorpion's nest'' that Fallujah has become, the military is willing to inflict as much punishment as needed to achieve...
...cache of household smoke detectors, which the British suspect the group wanted to cannibalize for their minute quantities of americium-241, a man-made radioactive chemical. Officials tell TIME it's extremely unlikely that enough americium could be harvested from smoke detectors to create a device potent enough to inflict radiation sickness, let alone kill people. But others argue that spewing even a small amount of radioactive material into a crowded stadium or subway station could trigger sensitive radiation sensors, incite panic and cause long-lasting contamination...
...tied to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi--the most wanted terrorist in Iraq--and funded by wealthy Wahhabi donors in gulf states. The insurgents say they are fighting for an Islamic state in Iraq. A veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, Abu Musa'ab exploits the military's reluctance to inflict damage on residential areas. His men barrage Task Force 1/9's base with rockets and mortars every two or three days, knowing that the Americans will rarely fire back. "I can fire from anywhere I like. Go on, pick a spot. I'll show you," Abu Musa'ab told TIME...