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...lethal rocket strikes against the U.S. occupation army are part of the regular routine. At the modest farmhouse of a fellow member of his network of insurgents one recent evening, Abu Ali--the nom de guerre he has chosen--welcomes seven fighters into a room lined with worn sofas. Despite the steady whoomp-whoomp of circling U.S. helicopters, the insurgents sit back, chain-smoking and chatting about weapons, tactics, the long lines to get gasoline, whose children are starting to crawl. A young man spreads a plastic sheet on the floor and lays out plates of roasted chicken, rice, bean...
Under the apparent leadership of experienced former Saddam loyalists, the resistance network is growing more organized. Leaders of small cells that once acted independently now share intelligence and tactics and divide up targets. On another night in November, Abu Ali held a meeting of eight cell commanders and 17 lieutenants in a kerosene-lit house a good distance from Baghdad. The younger men cradled AK-47s; the senior men, each representing a different resistance cell with at least two dozen foot soldiers apiece, carried sidearms. Abu Ali gestured toward each man, who in turn rattled off his area of operation...
...elusiveness of the quarry. ?I?m dumbfounded when I think about it,? he told Army Major General Raymond Odierno, commander of the 4th Infantry. ?The chances of us using that kind of money to find somebody - to figure out how to invest some time and develop a network and produce the information that would do it - I mean, that ought to be doable...
...last week’s installment, which featured retired General Wesley K. Clark, Matthews seemed much more uncertain that Lieberman’s campaign would resolve its scheduling issues with the network...
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