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Once inside the country, says a Pentagon official in Iraq, "it's not hard for [infiltrators] to link up with fellow travelers." Sources inside the anti-U.S. resistance say foreign fighters have congregated west of Baghdad, in the conservative Sunni strongholds of Fallujah and Ramadi, where they receive shelter, food and weapons from local Islamic militants and members of the Fedayeen Saddam militia--though intelligence officials say there's no evidence of active collaboration between the outsiders and regime loyalists...
...incident report for Wednesday, for example, is typical: One U.S. soldier killed and three wounded by an improvised explosive device in Fallujah; another soldier killed in an ambush on a convoy in Baghdad and two of his colleagues wounded, four soldiers wounded in two separate ambushes in Baqubah and Ramadi. The U.S. is facing a guerrilla insurgency capable of mounting multiple simultaneous attacks in different locations, high profile terror attacks that spread panic in the civilian population and systematic sabotage attacks on oil, water and electricity supplies...
...most pervasive threat emerges from a fierce nationalism and a deep-rooted tribal instinct that interpret every U.S. search or arrest as an insult. That feeling is perhaps strongest in Fallujah and Ramadi, cities west of Baghdad where some of the most deadly attacks on American troops have come. These cities fall within the so-called Sunni triangle, where U.S. officials believe Saddam and most of his followers are hiding. But locals deny that the attacks have any connection with Saddam...
...sitting at the head of the gathering. The cell members said they operate autonomously, selecting their targets and timings without orders from any kind of hierarchy. The morning after the Mosul siege, when a makeshift explosive device detonated under a military convoy as it passed through the town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, killing a U.S. soldier, the cell sent word to TIME...
...have been made by Saddam, saying he is in Iraq and promising "days of hardship and trouble for the infidel invaders." Iraqis seen to be cooperating with Americans are also under fire. In the worst such attack, a bomb exploded at a graduation ceremony for new Iraqi police in Ramadi, killing seven and injuring more than...