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		Iraqi representatives accepted allied terms for a provisional truce on March 3 and a permanent cease-fire on April 6.
		A resolution demanding Iraqi compliance with UN weapons inspections under threat of “serious consequences” won unanimous approval from the Security Council in November 2002; however, the Security Council was not willing to endorse the use of military force four months later.
		Neither the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003 nor the establishment of a sovereign interim Iraqi government in June 2004 appeared to weaken the insurgency.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=219006 (1943 words)

	History of Iraqi insurgency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In May of 2003, after the Iraqi conventional forces had been defeated, the U.S. military noticed a gradually increasing flurry of attacks on U.S. troops in various regions of the so-called "Sunni Triangle", especially in Baghdad and in the regions around Fallujah and Tikrit.
		The insurgency remained quiet, launching small-scale bomb attacks that were, in comparison to the hundreds of dead in each suicide attack in the fall, relatively minor affairs.
		However, on February 22, 2006, rebels dressed as Iraqi police commandos stormed the Al Askari Mosque in Samarra, a mosque particularly holy to the Shi'a majority due to it being the location where several imam are buried.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Iraqi_insurgency (6238 words)

	President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat
		We agree that the Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons.
		If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.
		The Iraqi regime bugged hotel rooms and offices of inspectors to find where they were going next; they forged documents, destroyed evidence, and developed mobile weapons facilities to keep a step ahead of inspectors.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html (3301 words)

	Iraq insurgency complex, 4 Oct 04
		"History is replete with insurgencies that failed," one general said privately during a discussion of Iraq.
		Those cited most often are the disbanding of the Iraqi army and the banning of Saddam's political leaders from public life, both of which are said to have converted potential allies into enemies.
		U.S. and Iraqi troops reclaimed the city of Samarra from insurgents over the weekend, but it's unclear how much fighting was done by the Iraqis.
	www.notinourname.net /war/complex-insurgency-4oct04.htm (1173 words)

	U.S. finds insurgency in Iraq is self-sustaining financially - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
		Iraqi men suspected of engaging in insurgent activity waited to be processed at a jail on a joint U.S.-Iraqi base near Baghdad recently.
		BAGHDAD: The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, connivance by corrupt Islamic charities and other crimes that the Iraqi government and its American patrons have been largely unable to prevent, a classified United States government report has concluded.
		American, Iraqi and other coalition forces are fighting an array of shadowy Sunni and Shiite groups that can draw on huge armories left over from Hussein's days, and benefit from the willingness of many insurgents to fight with little or no pay.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/11/26/africa/web.1026insurgency.php (902 words)

	Iraqi insurgency - SourceWatch
		That the Iraqi insurgency is now self-sustaining was confirmed December 1, 2006, by John D. Negroponte, U.S. national intelligence director.
		In other words, as much as was the case a year or two ago, the Iraqi insurgency is primarily an anti-occupation insurgency."—Fred Kaplan, Slate, February 9, 2006.
		Portraying the Iraqi insurgency as a "monolith" "composed solely of Saddam Hussein's 'ex-loyalists' misses a myriad of groups and ideologies arrayed against U.S. occupation," according to Ahmed S. Hashim, professor of strategic studies at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I., the Pacific News Service reported July 29, 2003.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Iraqi_insurgency (1271 words)

	IslamiCity.com - Morning in Iraq?
		Although the U.S. military believes that the "center of gravity" in the continuing Iraq War is the "hearts and minds" of the Iraqi people, the Iraqi insurgents believe, as did the North Vietnamese almost 40 years ago, that the center of gravity lies with the hearts and minds of the American people.
		The Iraqi insurgents must be pleased that in the age of 24-hour news, the Iraq War became unpopular in the United States much faster than the years needed to drain away American public support for the Vietnam conflict.
		The Iraqi insurgents have patterned their insurgency after the effective Palestinian uprising against the Israelis in the occupied territories.
	www.islamicity.com /Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0407-2380 (951 words)

	The Glittering Eye » Blog Archive » The Iraqi insurgency has no Central Command
		By “Iraqi insurgency” I mean anyone who dischargers a firearm at a member of the Coalition forces, sets carbombs and other IEDs, engages in suicide attacks, and otherwise opposes Coalition forces or the new Iraqi government in Iraq with force.
		GlobalSecurity.org characterizes the Iraqi insurgency as being composed of former regime loyalists on the one hand and Islamic revivalists on the other.
		He recalled that discussions with members of the insurgency were often fruitless given the lack of a formal power structure.
	theglitteringeye.com /?p=2066 (1647 words)

	FRONTLINE: the insurgency: interviews: michael ware \| PBS
		Iraqis who were fighting for a myriad of reasons, by which they self-identified as nationalists, as freedom fighters, were fighting a very immediate thing in a foreign occupation.
		One of them is the formation of an Iraqi insurgent network led by a former senior intelligence officer within the Badr Brigade in the days that it was in Iran.
		This is history unfolding, and for some reason I've been put or thrust into a position where I'm one of the very few who can bear witness to that, for a start.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/interviews/ware.html (8263 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Iraqi charter and the insurgency
		Despite all the attention focused on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and foreign fighters, CENTCOM estimates that 90% of the insurgency is Iraqi and Sunni.
		The history books show that insurgencies are almost always defeated by a combination of military and political strategies and the hope will be to draw into politics and away from violence those providing active or passive support to the Sunni aspect of the insurgency.
		If these opponents of the US presence and current Iraqi government can get two thirds of the population to vote no to the constitution in at least 3 of Iraq's provinces then the constitution - and the entire political process of most of the last year - would fall.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4186766.stm (916 words)

	Iraqi anger grows as insurgency intensifies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Most Iraqi analysts agree that the young men who carry out the majority of the suicide bombings are foreign jihadis.
		Iraqi security officials say one reason why they have been unable to make much headway against the bombers is that the US army does not share much of its intelligence.
		US and Iraqi authorities have tried to counterattack, determined to show they are making headway against the insurgency.
	www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=6862 (785 words)

	Stories Tagged 'insurgency' » Netscape.com
		Politics – The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, connivance by corrupt Islamic charities and other crimes that the Iraqi government and its American patrons have been largely unable to prevent.
		News – The Iraq insurgency has become financially self-sustaining, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, corrupt charities and other crimes, the New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
		The bomb attack is the latest violent incident in a long-running separatist insurgency by the Muslim majority in the south of Thailand.
	www.netscape.com /tag/insurgency (1145 words)

	The Presence of Saudi Nationals in the Iraqi Insurgency
		It is widely recognized that Saudi nationals are currently participating in the Iraqi insurgency and have been involved in operations that have targeted the U.S.-led coalition force, aspects of the nascent Iraqi security forces, and segments of Iraq's majority Shiite population.
		For the first time in recent history, the jihadi movement is centered in the Arab heartland, engaged in what many in the movement interpret as a struggle for a pivotal Arab country.
		A major issue for Iraqi security forces and their Saudi counterparts is that nomadic Bedouin tribes (that have previously been suspected of supporting the insurgency) exist on both sides of the Iraq-Saudi border.
	www.jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369968 (1479 words)

	Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq - SourceWatch
		But it can't sensibly stay when the very presence of its troops is a worsening irritant to the Iraqi public and a rallying point for nationalist opponents—to say nothing of the growing pressure in the United States for withdrawal." --James Fallows, The Atlantic, December 2005.
		Iraqi Intervention Forces: "the highly-trained counter-insurgency element of the Iraqi Army." [6]
		The Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, in charge of internal security, has about 21,000 members and is planned to reach 92,000.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=New_Iraqi_army (2430 words)

	t r u t h o u t - U.S. "Losing the War in Iraq," Knight Ridder Reports
		It's axiomatic among military thinkers that insurgencies are especially hard to defeat because the insurgents' goal isn't to win in a conventional sense but merely to survive until the will of the occupying power is sapped.
		Some Iraqis say these aggressive U.S. military moves are counterproductive because mass destruction and the killing of Iraqis create more recruits for the insurgency.
		In late 2003, Iraqi recruits, many of them young and looking for a paycheck, were pushed through a week or so of training, given guns and uniforms and then declared graduated.
	www.truthout.org /docs_05/012405X.shtml (1643 words)

	20 bodies found in Tigris near Baghdad :: www.rojname.com
		Shiites have suffered the brunt of the attacks, which al-Zarqawi said were in retaliation for the Iraqi-U.S. military operation against the insurgent stronghold of Tal Afar, a northern city near the Syrian border.
		Near the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad, Iraqi soldiers arrested 12 men suspected of involvement in a string of attacks on Saturday against U.S. and Iraqi forces.
		Iraqi police reported that 6 U.S. armored vehicles were either destroyed or damaged in the attacks.
	www.rojname.com /index.kurd?nuce=85057 (844 words)

	Insurgency Through Iraqi Eyes Washingtonpost.com - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As Iraqi insurgents have mounted bloody suicide attacks on civilians in recent weeks, the Iraqi press has become preoccupied with the specter of "sectarian conflict" -- and the difference between U.S. and Iraqi news coverage has become clearer.
		Iraqi news organizations show less interest than their Western counterparts in individual suicide bombings, U.S. casualties, and Bush administration policy.
		We were shy to ask people whether they were Shia or Sunni, because we consider all Iraqis as being part of one nation regardless of their ethnic background.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NTQ/is_2005_June_2/ai_n13795940 (812 words)

	The Iraqi Insurgency and Us - by Robert Dreyfuss and Tom Engelhardt
		First of all, the Sunni-led insurgency, metastasizing continually, is a hydra-headed army of armies representing former Ba'athist military, security, and intelligence officers, assorted nationalists and Islamists, tribal and clan leaders, and city and neighborhood militias.
		But studies of the insurgency show that most of its fighters are loyal to the Ba'ath Party, whose origins were among left-leaning Arab nationalists, or they are loyal to a more specific version of Iraqi nationalism, or they simply oppose the foreign occupation of their country.
		But the fact that a prolonged insurgency followed the invasion and that U.S. casualties mounted is the result of the Iraqi people's unwillingness to submit to an American diktat.
	www.antiwar.com /engelhardt/?articleid=9175 (3583 words)

	Anbar Province and Emerging Trends in the Iraqi Insurgency
		Defiant—and hard to verify—pronouncements by the fledgling Iraqi government notwithstanding, the battles of early May and subsequent joint operations by the U.S. military and Iraqi security forces in Anbar point toward emerging trends in the Iraqi insurgency.
		That the latest trend in the evolution of the Iraqi insurgency is unfolding in the Anbar province is not in the least surprising.
		In any case it is important to put the security assessments and ambitions of the Iraqi authorities in their proper context; recently Laith Kubba, spokesman for Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Ja'afari, predicted that coalition forces would “disappear” from the streets of Iraqi cities within “weeks”.
	jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369743 (2186 words)

	Iraqi Insurgency Still Strong After Vote (phillyBurbs.com) \| Middle East
		For months, U.S. and Iraqi officials have insisted that the insurgency would ease if Sunni Arabs - the favored class under former dictator Saddam Hussein - could be lured back to participate in the political process, now dominated by Shiites and Kurds.
		May was the most violent month for Iraqi civilians since the U.S.-led invasion to remove Saddam in March 2003, said Lt. Gen.
		Although Vines did not provide numbers, Iraqi officials separately have said 434 civilians were killed in May, up from 299 in April, and that another 151 Iraqi police and 85 Iraqi soldiers were killed - both figures also up sharply from April.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/93-07242005-518450.html (851 words)

	Media Matters - AP, Special Report uncritically reported Cheney's claim that Iraqi insurgency was universally ...
		Also, as noted by Think Progress, contrary to Cheney's claim that he was referring to Iraqi political events when he said that the insurgency was in its "last throes," Cheney mentioned, in support of his "last throes" assertion reports that "lead terrorist" Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been injured.
		And the two main requirements are, the Iraqis in a position to be able to govern themselves, and they're well on their way to doing that, and the other is able to defend themselves, and they're well on their way to doing that.
		EMANUEL: The vice president also defended his comment last year that the Iraqi insurgency was, quote, "in its final throes." The vice president said he was referring to the series of events when the Iraqis increasingly took over responsibility for their affairs.
	mediamatters.org /items/200606210006 (2912 words)

	The Belgravia Dispatch: The State of the Iraqi Insurgency
		Although efforts to intimidate and eliminate Iraqis cooperating with the coalition have been on the rise since 2003, the coalition-led operation against Tall ‘Afar in early September 2005 arguably was the turning point.
		The insurgency is built around a loose and flexible network, feeds on deep-seated family, tribal and local loyalties, with allegiance to a cause rather than to specific individuals.
		For the U.S. and its Iraqi allies to prevail on this battlefront, they first of all must establish a monopoly over the legitimate use of violence – which means establishing the legitimacy both of the means being deployed and of the state on whose behalf violence is being exercised.
	www.belgraviadispatch.com /2006/04/the_state_of_the_iraqi_insurge.html (11905 words)

	NO QUARTER: PUNCHING THE IRAQI JELLO BAG
		Neither the illusionary Iraqi security forces nor the United States military have sufficient strength on the ground in Iraq to cover the Jello bag that is the insurgency.
		Consequently, we "crush" the insurgency in Fallujah, displace the population, destroy the infrastructure, then withdraw from the city only to see the insurgents and their supporters return.
		The Iraqi Sunnis are not the only Sunni muslims in the world willing to destroy the Shia and prevent them from taking control of a government.
	noquarter.typepad.com /my_weblog/2005/09/punching_the_ir.html (3932 words)

	Iraqi insurgency could last 12 years, Rumsfeld warns
		The Iraqi insurgency could stretch on for more than a decade, U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said as he played down meetings between American officials and militant leaders.
		If the fighting continues for years, it will be up to the Iraqi security forces to defeat the militants because the U.S. and other foreign forces will be gone, Rumsfeld said on Sunday.
		The Iraqi government has been struggling to include Sunnis, who are believed to represent the core of the insurgency.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2005/06/26/rumsfeld-iraq050626.html (1389 words)

	Dean's World - The Phony Iraqi "Insurgency"
		Daffyd Ab Hugh knocks it out of the park: there is no Iraqi insurgency, just a horrifying death-cult terrorizing and murdering innocent people.
		When the Jarrars have lost faith in the insurgency, I think it means that the end is in sight for it.
		What the Iraqis have learned is that the insurgency largely consists of home-grown professional criminals and foreign jihadis, neither of whom give a damn about the lives of average Iraqis.
	www.deanesmay.com /posts/1116349075.shtml (506 words)

	Donklephant » Blog Archive » A New Doctrine To Handle Iraqi Insurgency? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		However, I am having a hard time getting to the reasons why there is civilian strife between the different ethnic/religious groups.
		Now that the Iraqis do not have a common villian, what are they fighting about?
		It would be highly appreciated if someone was to shed more light on this subject matter instead of the political fall-outs in the US caused by this war.
	donklephant.com /2006/10/05/a-new-doctrine-to-handle-iraqi-insurgency (909 words)

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