Word: insurgentes
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Since April 1, an average of five U.S. troops has been killed in Iraq every day. A year after Baghdad first fell, the insurgency is stronger than ever, and U.S. forces require intelligence to help defend themselves from insurgent attack. But the ideological assumption of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" is that...
The only answer to the violence in Iraq is to speed up the timetable for elections. That would be a way to take the insurgent Iraqis' minds off violent protest and channel their energy into a scramble for votes. Then Iraqis can blame their elected officials if things don't...
Plan C - or is it plan D? - for Fallujah involves the Marines withdrawing from their siege lines around the insurgent-held town and allowing one of Saddam Hussein's top former generals to lead a newly constituted Iraqi military unit to go in and restore calm. The new initiative, announced...
The new Iraqi force, the Fallujah Protective Army, is to comprise some 1,100 Sunni Muslim men recruited by four Iraqi generals from among the ranks of the former army and police forces, and will be under the command of General Jasim Muhammad Saleh, a former Republican Guard division commander...
With the planned hand-over of symbolic "sovereignty" to an Iraqi government only 10 weeks away, the U.S. "to-do" list in Iraq seems impossibly vast. The occupation authority has to find an Iraqi government; determine where its own authority will end and the Iraqis' will begin; win international backing...