Word: nasiriya
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...fought insurgents in Fallujah, then battled Moqtada Sadr's men in Najaf in June. The U.S. returned there in August for a second, inconclusive battle and then, in September, found itself once again bombing Fallujah in preparation for another frontal assault. The Sadrists have also created flashpoints in Basra, Nasiriya, Karbala, Samawa, Kut and elsewhere throughout the Shiite south, while the Sunni insurgents have added Ramadi, Samarra, Baquba and others to the list of no-go areas for U.S. troops. And both Sunnis and Shiites continue to wreak havoc on the streets of Baghdad on a daily basis...
...after all, conduct most of their military actions with a view to sending a message - they can't hope to beat their enemy head-to-head on a battlefield, so they try to sap his will to remain on their turf. The reason they killed 17 Italian carabinieri at Nasiriya on Wednesday was not because they believed the Italians are integral to the coalition's combat capability; it was to send a message that the U.S. and its allies are not safe even in the supposedly tranquil Shiite south of Iraq - and that message appears to have had an instant...
...BASE The first U.S. cargo planes landed at an airfield south of Nasiriya that is expected to become a major point of resupply for coalition forces. Iraqi forces continued to attack coalition positions around the city...
...senior officer also noted that Republican Guard units were moving south, perhaps because "things are getting bad in the south for them and they need to stiffen their defense." He said the local population was very near a "tipping point" toward the coalition in both Basra and Nasiriya. In Najaf, he said locals were helping coalition forces route out the paramilitaries and that locals were even physically attacking regime supporters...
Even as Saddam talked peace, Pentagon officials were worried that his troops were dragging their feet in an apparent retreat from the Kuwaiti border: at least two Iraqi brigades reportedly stopped near the southern city of An Nasiriya. U.S. Marines, meanwhile, staged a practice landing in Kuwait. Defense Secretary William Perry said American troops could head home in a few weeks if all goes well...
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