Word: insurgentes
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Three U.S. Army companies currently live on small bases in the neighborhood, and a fourth is setting up shop. Delta Company, 2-12 Cavalry, operates in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of south Ghazaliya, and in recent weeks it has seen the constant drumbeat of sniper fire, roadside bombs and firefights...
As leader of the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), the largest Sunni clerical body, al-Dari is the sect's most prominent figure in Iraq. Many U.S. military commanders and Iraqi government officials believe he is the spiritual head of the insurgency, and accuse his son Muthanna of personally commanding...
In the past, Harith al-Dari and other AMS figures have given at least tacit backing - and occasionally open support - to al-Qaeda, believing the terror group would help the Sunni insurgency achieve its goal of driving American forces from Iraq. But in recent months, many Sunni leaders have grown...
Al-Dari says the "harsh actions" - suicide bombings and attacks on civilian targets - of al-Qaeda's foreign fighters in Iraq are "unacceptable." He also accuses the group of trying to take over sole command of the fight against the Americans, pushing aside home-grown insurgent groups. But there may...
Still, nobody's expecting that taking Dadullah out of the picture is going to end the sting of the Taliban - any more than the killing of Musab al-Zarqawi did in the case of the Iraq insurgency. A Taliban spokesman on Monday hailed Dadullah as a martyr, announcing that his...