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	Insurgency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An insurgency is an organized rebellion that engages in deliberate actions to cause the downfall of a governmental authority, through destruction and armed actions.
		Some elements of an insurgency may use bombs, kidnappings, hostage-taking, hijackings, shootings and other types of violence to target the establishment's power structure and other facilities with little regard for civilian casualties.
		Iraqi insurgency -- the armed campaign being waged by various irregular forces, both Iraqi and external in origin, against the multinational force and the new Iraqi government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Insurgency (735 words)

	Insurgency: The Unsolved Mystery
		Insurgencies develop organizational and operational patterns from the interaction of all of the factors previously mentioned.
		To begin to understand the nature of an insurgency, we must understand the environment in which that insurgency is born.
		A subversive insurgency is suited to a more permissive political environment which allows the insurgents to use both legal and illegal methods to accomplish their goals.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1991/NEN.htm (3309 words)

	Iraqi insurgency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The insurgency grew during the period between the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and the establishment of a new sovereign Iraqi government.
		Hadi Saleh of the IFTU was assassinated under circumstances that pointed to a Ba'athist insurgency group on the 3rd of January 2005.
		The insurgency is believed to maintain a key supply line stretching from Syria through al-Qaim and along the Euphrates to Baghdad and central Iraq, the Iraqi equivalent of the Ho Chi Minh trail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraqi_insurgency (8493 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. relearning painful lessons in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Insurgencies are more than rebellions by "dead-enders" or final gasps by defeated foes.
		Insurgency is the only form of warfare that has ever defeated a superpower, most notably the United States in Vietnam and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
		They'll indicate whether the political side of the conflict can be won and the masses conclude that the insurgency is bound to fail, or the insurgents will be successful in turning a critical mass of Iraqis against the Americans and whatever government emerges under their protection.
	usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-01-23-insurgency-lessons-gns_x.htm (1014 words)

	Insurgency . Modern Infantry Combat . Half-Life 2 Modification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As Insurgency is now in the "polishing" phase of development, it's time to revamp our player animations.
		Insurgency (INS) is a total conversion mod for Valve Software's Half-Life 2, powered by the Source Engine.
		Set on the modern battlefields, Insurgency simulates infantry combat that encourages the use of teamwork and tactics to close with and destroy the enemy.
	www.insurgencymod.net (418 words)

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		Certainly in terms of intelligence gathering and 'counter insurgency' strategy the lesson learned was that the alienation of a community from the state means that little intelligence will flow from that community.
		Also, by using a 'police force' as the frontline defense against insurgency it may be possible to de-politicize the situation and portray it as something less than a war, a battle between 'police and criminal gangs'.
		Like all phases of 'counter insurgency' strategy already used it will be evolved and refined in the days ahead and it is important to remember this when dealing with counter insurgency/revolutionary strategy.
	www.etext.org /Politics/INAC/british.counterinsurgency (4889 words)

	IRAQ: Quelling the Insurgency - Council on Foreign Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The heart of the insurgency appears to lie in Anbar province, a vast, arid area approximately the size of Wyoming that lies to the north and west of Baghdad.
		Also active in the insurgency are Baathists, who a year ago were believed to be leading the effort, but “are in a subordinate position right now,” Katzman says.
		Overall, the Sunni insurgency appears to be growing in strength and resourcefulness.
	www.cfr.org /background/background_iraq_quell.php (1600 words)

	Maoist Insurgency in Nepal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By the end of December of 2000, the insurgency has taken the life of an estimated 1600 persons (unofficially the figure goes as high as 4,000 dead.) There are four categories of people killed in the process: Maoist guerrillas, police, alleged informers of police, and innocent civilians.
		Geopolitics of Insurgency and Government Policy: The insurgency that began from 3 mid-western mountain districts of Rolpa, Rukum, and Jajarkot, western district of Gorkha and an eastern district of Sindhuli has now spread to 68 of Nepal’s 75 districts.
		That the Maoist insurgency has survived five-year period and continues to enter into news phases is in itself a clear indication that the movement is no longer a temporary phenomenon without social bases.
	www.saag.org /papers2/paper187.htm (2377 words)

	Iraqi Insurgency
		Though some groups had the ability to carry out attacks in regions other than their own, and there may be some degree of cooperation between regions, it is believed that insurgent activities are organized regionally and that no national insurgent network exists.
		Sunni Arabs, dominated by Ba’athist and Former Regime Elements (FRE), comprise the core of the insurgency.
		Foreign fighters are a small component of the insurgency and comprise a very small percentage of all detainees.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/iraq_insurgency.htm (2165 words)

	Explaining the Kashmir insurgency: political mobilization and institutional decay.
		Apologists for the Indian position have contended that the insurgency is the result of Pakistani propaganda and logistical support and training for the insurgents.(6) Pakistani apologists, in turn, argue that the insurgency represents the spontaneous rise of ethno-religious sentiment amongst the oppressed Muslim community of Jammu and Kashmir.(7)
		More scholarly explanations have sought to locate the origins of the insurgency in the clash of competing nationalist visions, rampant electoral malfeasances, the rise of a frustrated middle class, or the breakdown of a composite Kashmiri cultural identity.(8) These explanations, though not without merit, are at best partial.
		However, since the outbreak of the insurgency in 1989 and the flight of large numbers of Hindus from the Kashmir Valley, ethnic stereotypes are now coming to the fore.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/sumit.htm (11493 words)

	Saddam's Capture May Fuel Islamist Insurgency
		Without Hussein and his Baath Party stamp on the insurgency, according to the officials, Iraqis might join the guerrillas in what is seen as a nationalist and Islamic struggle against an occupying power.
		While, in its initial days, the insurgency seemed to consist largely of former Baath loyalists and former Iraqi army and intelligence officers, it has taken on an Islamic stamp in recent months.
		It has never been clear how much influence Hussein had on the insurgency and whether he was coordinating it in any way beyond sending out audiotapes to Arab satellite channels.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/1215-06.htm (967 words)

	Military Action Won't End Insurgency, Growing Number of US Officers Believe
		The message is markedly different from previous statements by U.S. officials who spoke of quashing the insurgency by rounding up or killing "dead enders" loyal to former dictator Saddam Hussein.
		this insurgency is not going to be settled, the terrorists and the terrorism in Iraq is not going to be settled, through military options or military operations," Brig.
		Frederick P. Wellman, who works with the task force overseeing the training of Iraqi security troops, said the insurgency doesn't seem to be running out of new recruits, a dynamic fueled by tribal members seeking revenge for relatives killed in fighting.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0613-01.htm (1491 words)

	Back to Iraq 3.0: Insurgency Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As TIME Magazine reported in February, members of the Ba'athist/nationalist insurgency are open to negotiating an end to their struggle with the U.S. “We are ready,” said a top insurgent negotiator, “to work with you.” The Council is their Sinn Fein.
		What we cannot forget is the responsibility for the continuation of casualties that is borne by a blind insistence on a military solution to the insurgency.
		Losing experienced officers like Abu Laith to the insurgency is not something the Americans want to see, which is why they seem to be more open to talks than the Iraqi government.
	www.back-to-iraq.com /archives/insurgency (4136 words)

	Who Are the Insurgents? Sunni Arab Rebels in Iraq: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace
		The Iraqi government may be able to substantially reduce the insurgency by appealing to the secular, tribal, and non-Salafi Islamist groups through policies that address their primary concern: the status of Sunni Arabs in the new Iraq.
		Whether or not any of the Kharbit's tribal supporters joined the insurgency in retaliation is uncertain, but by the end of 2003, U.S. military officials noted in general terms that some insurgents were attacking coalition forces to avenge the spilled blood of relatives, whether they had been killed by accident or in earlier guerilla attacks.
		While secular/ideological, tribal, and Islamist motivations drive the insurgency, practically speaking, Sunni Arab insurgents may be divided into two categories: those who are candidates for a rapprochement with the Iraqi government, and those who are not.
	www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr134.html (12051 words)

	World Peace Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The high rate of injuries suffered reflects the continuing widespread and formidable nature of the insurgency.
		The number of people killed in MFBs in the almost three weeks to Oct. 19 was, at 204, still significantly down from the 481 killed in all of September but was already far worse than the 170 killed through August.
		These figures clearly document an insurgency that so far has been able to sustain its latest quantum leap in area, intensity and tactical sophistication in terms of the power of the IEDs and the number of car bombs per week it can set off.
	www.wpherald.com /storyview.php?StoryID=20051021-020202-5565r (1008 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Militants' challenge to new Iraq
		While foreign fighters have often been the most visible of those involved in the insurgency due to their extreme methods, the bulk are thought to be former-Baathists and from the Sunni community.
		Along with the political tasks, the other key challenge for Iraq in trying to stymie the insurgency is developing its own security forces.
		The repeated attacks on recruitment centres are clearly an attempt to undermine morale and recruitment as well as the ability of the security forces to combat the insurgency.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/4513215.stm (822 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Iraqi insurgency 'undiminished'
		The US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, said the key to winning the insurgency was ensuring that the political process in Iraq took hold.
		Gen Myers said that just counting the number of attacks was in any case a poor method of measuring the insurgency and pointed out that half of attacks were thwarted.
		Mr Rumsfeld said he did not believe it would be the efforts of US and coalition forces that proved decisive in the battle against the insurgents.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4488099.stm (454 words)

	IRAQ: The Iraqi Insurgency - Council on Foreign Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Violence caused by insurgents has surged as the June 30 handover of sovereignty to the Iraqi Interim Government approaches.
		That act, along with the arrest of Sadr lieutenant Mustafa al-Yacoubi, sparked a bloody insurgency that began in April.
		Most experts say no. "On a scale of one to ten, they're a one," says William L. Nash, the John W. Vessey senior fellow and director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations.
	www.cfr.org /background/background_iraq_insurg.php (1930 words)

	One Hand Clapping » Blog Archive » A look at the Iraqi insurgencies - part one
		I posted five days ago about “drying up the insurgents’ lake” in Iraq, that is, turning the populations in which the terrorists live and operate away from support to neutrality, then away from neutrality to opposition.
		I remarked that Islamism has not proved to be a rallying beacon for any but the fanatical, and al Qaeda’s murderousness in Iraq, coupled with their political ineptitude, has set them at a marked disadvantage in fighting America there or, since Jan. 30’s elections, the new Iraqi government.
		This is the largest organized insurgency in Iraq and the first insurgency to “get its act together” to fight the Americans because Saddam’s regime actually planned for this eventuality.
	www.donaldsensing.com /?p=144 (996 words)

	Iraqi insurgency - SourceWatch
		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 (http://www.slate.com/id/2135859/), 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 (http://www.wbai.org/artman/publish/article_530.php) July 29, 2003.
		"The insurgency in Iraq that is killing American soldiers daily," says Hashim, "has been incorrectly characterized by the Bush administration as acts of violence against American troops by former regime supporters.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Iraqi_insurgency (1194 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.
		He said the number of attacks, bombings and kidnappings is down from November, experienced insurgent leaders are being arrested or killed, U.S. and Iraqi forces remain on the offensive and more Iraqis have been providing intelligence on insurgents.
		In the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad and the southern town of Najaf, the scene of intense fighting last year with Shiite Muslim rebels, millions of dollars are pouring into reconstruction efforts.
	www.truthout.org /docs_05/012405X.shtml (1643 words)

	USATODAY.com - Insurgents showing no sign of letting up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A USA TODAY database, which analyzed unclassified U.S. government security reports, shows attacks against U.S. and allied forces have averaged 49 a day since the hand-over of sovereignty June 28, compared with 52 a day in the four weeks leading up to the transfer.
		While most attention has been focused on the showdown in Najaf between Shiites and the new Iraqi government, data show the insurgency is a stubborn and continuing phenomenon throughout the country.
		His capture sparked hopes that the insurgency was in permanent decline.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-08-22-iraq-cover_x.htm (2425 words)

	CNN.com - Myers: Insurgency same as year ago - Apr 27, 2005
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The insurgency in Iraq is "about where it was a year ago," in terms of attacks, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said but he said American and Iraqi troops are gaining ground in the two-year-old conflict.
		Myers' assessment of the insurgency raised eyebrows in the Pentagon briefing room, but Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said there are "a lot of moving parts" in play in Iraq.
		"If they want to reduce the level of the insurgency, having competent people and avoiding unnecessary turbulence is a high priority," he said.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/04/27/myers.insurgency (595 words)

	Part-Time Pundit: The Insurgency is Over
		They say that the fighting in Iraq is no longer an insurgency but a terrorist action because of the targeting of normal Iraqi men, women, and children.
		They correctly label the fighters as terrorists, but it hasn’t been an insurgency for a long time.
		An insurgency implies that the fight is from within a nation.
	jcb.pentex-net.com /archives/2005/08/the_insurgency.html (499 words)

	Insurgency Not Anticipated
		WASHINGTON - According to the General in command, the U.S. went to war in Iraq without expectation of the violent insurgency that followed or a clear understanding of the psychology of the Iraqi people.
		Initial planning for the war centered on achieving a speedy victory in the major combat phases of the conflict followed by rapid reconstruction of the country, he said.
		Though an insurgency was feared, there was no assumption it would happen, he said.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,FL_franks_080304,00.html (918 words)

	Online NewsHour: Iraq in Transition \| Insurgency \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although the violence had been characterized by the CIA as a "classic insurgency," the enemy shooting at the Americans was not Islamic extremists organized by al-Qaida, but instead Shiite Iraqis who U.S. planners had assumed would welcome the American-led invasion.
		Three soldiers and a Marine who returned recently assess the effectiveness of the insurgency and speak about the frustrations they faced trying to bring peace to a divided and dangerous country.
		A rash of deadly attacks on Iraqi police, a series of foreign kidnapping and the deaths of 53 American soldiers this month are all signs that militants continue their bloody fight to force the United States out of Iraq and to destabilize the interim government.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/iraq/postwar/ud.html (7720 words)

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