Word: insurgentes
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Some form of election will be held in Iraq on January 30. But Tuesday's admission by interim prime minister Iyad Allawi that voting will be impossible in "pockets" of insurgent violence underscores the likelihood that the legitimacy - and finality - of the results will be questioned by important constituencies inside...
If the assault on Fallujah last November was to have been a model of military action to prepare the way for voting in cities with a strong insurgent presence, its results have been questionable. Only about 8,500 of the city's estimated 250,000 residents have returned to their...
That's the face of democracy in Iraq, as insurgent violence mounts in the days before the Jan. 30 election. Four provinces have been declared not yet safe enough for voting, but Administration officials have not wavered in their insistence that the vote will be held on schedule. "I don...
To be sure, the current levels of violence make an election seem a somewhat hypothetical proposition. No day passes now without a new deluge of reports of dozens of attacks, ranging from car bombings and ambushes of U.S. and government troops to the systematic assassination of government officials and election...
Even the heavily armored humvees, as Rumsfeld inelegantly reminded the troops last week, aren't fail-safe: 120 have been destroyed in combat in Iraq. Unlike M1 tanks, even beefed-up humvees can't always stop a rocket-propelled grenade or .50-cal. machine-gun bullet from killing those inside...