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...after a week that witnessed the most brutal up-close combat conducted by the U.S. military since Somalia, victory over the insurgency in Iraq isn't necessarily any closer. Many fighters and the majority of the rebel leadership--including Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq--apparently slipped out of the city in the weeks leading up to the assault. A Pentagon official says that at most, 10% of the enemy in Iraq has been killed or captured in Fallujah. As the U.S. fights there, violence is rippling across the center and north of Iraq, engulfing...
...first step toward gradually eroding the insurgents' ability to coordinate activities around the country. Senior U.S. officials say the coming months will be like playing a deadly game of "whack a mole" across the country: attacking insurgents wherever they rise up and trying to take back enough rebel-held areas to hold credible elections in January. The U.S. does not have enough soldiers in Iraq to crush a growing insurgency in multiple locations at the same time. But officials believe they won't actually face that challenge. As messy as the Sunni triangle and Mosul now appear, so long...
According to Corbett, the book will give its reader a real education about how football began, how it developed and how “it got to be the game it is today.” The need of Harvard and Yale men to rebel against rigid campus life through vigorous physical activity, and to prove their superiority against one another in athletic skills developed into the “Boston game” of football...
...pronouncing Fallujah essentially over, U.S. forces were mounting a major offensive in Mosul, aimed at returning Iraqi policemen to police stations throughout the western half of the city that had fallen into insurgent hands. And Ramadi, Samarrah, Baquba, Tal Afar and Baghdad itself have all seen intensified rebel attacks over the past week...
...broadly credible fashion presents a daunting challenge. For the most restive parts of the Sunni triangle, the latest U.S. plan is to entice Sunni rejectionists to join the political process while at the same time fight to eliminate unrelenting jihadis. The U.S. will need to take back 22 rebel-held cities, by force where necessary, if residents there are to have any hope of voting. Then comes the even more hazardous job of maintaining the upper hand in the face of harassment by insurgents. The Administration is counting on newly trained Iraqi forces to take over day-to-day security...