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	Iraq Survey Group Final Report
		The insurgents targeted the chemist because of his background in chemistry—albeit limited and with no ties to former regime CW program—and his access to chemicals in Baghdad’s chemical suk district.
		The insurgents appear to have recruited the chemist with financial incentives; however, debriefings of detained al-Abud network members suggest that the chemist was sympathetic to the insurgent’s anti-Coalition cause.
		The al-Abud network first attempted to produce the nerve agent tabun in late December 2003, and the experiment was a self-admitted failure because the insurgents lacked the necessary chemicals.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/report/2004/isg-final-report/isg-final-report_vol3_cw-anx-e.htm (1571 words)

	USATODAY.com - Insurgents kill 26 in new Iraq violence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Sunni-led insurgents killed 26 people in Iraq on the opening day of Saddam Hussein's trial, including six Shiites who were lined up at a factory and gunned down in front of their fellow workers, police said.
		Wednesday's worst insurgent attack occurred in a mostly Sunni region south of Baghdad known as the Triangle of Death because of all its militant groups.
		Insurgents opened fire on a police checkpoint near the Hai Al-Adil highway in a western Baghdad, killing four policemen and wounding 11, said police Capt. Qassim Hassan.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-10-19-iraq-sunni-violence_x.htm (571 words)

	Iraq's Divided Insurgents (February 2006)
		A small network of mostly foreign Salafi jihadists, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is striving to turn Iraq into a springboard for global Islamist struggle, while an array of indigenous Arab Sunni groups with an Islamist-nationalist orientation are fighting to achieve conceivably realizable domestic political goals.
		Once the regime fell, this network of religious institutions became something of a surrogate institutional bond for the community and a protected space for insurgent recruiting and fundraising.
		The heartland of the Islamist-nationalist insurgents is the interior of Anbar, particularly in and around the towns of Fallujah, Ramadi, Habbaniyah, Hadithah and Baghdadi (not to be confused with Baghdad).
	www.mideastmonitor.org /issues/0602/0602_5.htm (3108 words)

	Strikes launched at Iraq rebel hide-out - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Middle East - News
		Marines and Iraqi soldiers battled throughout the day with insurgents in Karabila, and the precision-guided bombs destroyed three buildings from which insurgents were shooting, another Marine statement said.
		After a three-hour fight, the insurgents were driven off, and the Marines controlled the town, witnesses said.
		Qaim was the scene of a concerted insurgent assault on a US Marine post in April, and on June 11, the Marines launched airstrikes outside Karabila against insurgents who had erected illegal checkpoints along local roads and were menacing civilians.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/06/18/strikes_launched_at_iraq_rebel_hide_out (847 words)

	Marines targeting Fallujah insurgent support network: official
		US marines have launched operations targeting Iraqis providing weapons, money and recruits for insurgents in Fallujah even as coalition officials moved to ease access to the embattled Sunni town, a defense official said Monday.
		The operations have focused on locales along the border with Syria and in small towns surrounding Fallujah that are part of a clandestine network of support for fighters locked in a bloody, two week standoff with marines, the official said.
		"There are a lot of small towns around Fallujah that also have been providing support for the insurgents," he said.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040419212549.gunt0nww.html (400 words)

	Evolution of attack / As the insurgency in Iraq shifts its strategy, the U.S. military must become more nimble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The insurgents have done this through coordination rather than command -- sharing information, strategy and tactics widely among their dispersed cells, often by means of the Internet.
		From the beginning, the insurgent network in Iraq has articulated a clever strategy and modified it skillfully during the past two years to adapt to changing conditions.
		The insurgents' attritional strategy is working, as it steadily wears down support for the occupation among average Americans, putting pressure on our political leaders to withdraw.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/21/INGQEEA81G1.DTL&type=printable (1770 words)

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		When foreign fighters and the network of a Jordanian militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, are counted with home-grown insurgents, the hardcore resistance numbers between 8,000 and 12,000 people, a tally that grows to more than 20,000 when active sympathizers or covert accomplices are included, accord ing to the American officials.
		Even as American attacks are killing dozens of fighters and some leadership figures every week, officials said, insurgents in many parts of Iraq have been able to promote lieutenants into higher leadership roles and are able to attract a steady stream of recruits.
		And Pentagon officials say that some members of the Zarqawi network have fled Fallujah, and that those still inside are setting up military-style defenses in anticipation of a ground attack.
	www.insidebayarea.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2431458 (1549 words)

	International and Regional Implications of the Sri Lankan Tamil Insurgency
		Although Tamil insurgents benefited from this natural external base from the early 1970s, it was not until the riots of July 1983 that India became an active base for the Tamil groups to grow in number, strength and operational capability and capacity.
		Modern insurgent groups are developing the ability to raise funds in one theater, operate in another and fight in a third theater.
		As insurgent group develop their structures to raise funds in one location, operate from another location and fight in a third location, law enforcement agencies of governments are constrained from conducting extra-territorial operations.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=57 (15726 words)

	USATODAY.com - Pressure-triggered bombs worry U.S. forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		For insurgents, the advantage to a pressure switch is that no one has to risk capture by remaining nearby to trigger the explosion.
		In the Baqouba area north of Baghdad, insurgents had abandoned the use of pressure-triggered bombs this spring after U.S. and Iraqi forces discovered eight of the devices before they could be detonated.
		The main insurgent network in the Baqouba area is also the one with the most sophisticated bomb builders: the Islamic extremist group known as the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, made up of Iraqi Kurds, Sunnis and foreign jihadists.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-10-24-roadside-bombs-inside_x.htm (700 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		But he also confirmed that insurgents remain in northern parts of the city that were seized by U.S. troops a week ago.
		A number of insurgents have slipped away from the city to continue the battle elsewhere in Iraq," Kemp said.
		Clashes were reported today between insurgents and U.S. troops in the cities of Ramadi, Mosul, and Baquba.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/11/mil-041115-rferl03.htm (887 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Hunting 'Z' on Iraq's Ho Chi Minh trail
		Like the bane of U.S. commanders in Vietnam, the 300-mile stretch of river is not so much a single route as a multi-stranded network of passages, some hewing close to the lush silted landscape of palms and reeds that run along the banks, others crossing vast reaches of stony desert on either side.
		For their part, the insurgents have access to a resource network of their own — Sunni Arab mosques sympathetic to the insurgency in almost every village and town from Damascus to Baghdad.
		In numbers, the foreign Arab recruits account for a fraction of the insurgents operating across Iraq, whose total is estimated by the U.S. command to range from 12,000 to 20,000.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600139179,00.html (1544 words)

	U.S. Marines Discover Bunkers Used by Iraqi Insurgents - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The bunkers were fashioned from an old rock quarry north of the town of Karma, an insurgent stronghold in hostile Anbar Province that lies near the city of Falluja, just 35 miles west of Baghdad.
		The quarry measures about 546 feet by 883 feet, and the series of bunkers is the largest underground insurgent hideout to be discovered in at least the last year, if not during entire guerilla war, said Capt. Jeffrey S. Pool, a spokesman for the Second Marine Division, charged with controlling western Iraq.
		The underground lair was not new and was one of several smaller subdivisions that formed the rock quarry, the captain said.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/06/04/international/middleeast/04cnd-iraq.html?ei=5090&en=b70302e0a04a382d&ex=1275537600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all (1391 words)

	Air Force Magazine
		A variety of insurgent groups sought to tip the political balance through violence aimed at the coalition and the interim Iraqi government.
		Insurgent forces often were unaware of how closely they were being watched by airborne sensors.
		Many of the estimated 2,000 insurgents in the city were killed and their sanctuary eliminated.
	www.afa.org /magazine/feb2005/0205fallujah.asp (3617 words)

	The Threat Matrix: Conceptualizing al Qaeda and its Role in the Wider Islamist Threat Environment
		To add to the complexity and the cohesion of the vast Islamist network are the bonds of blood and marriage that cement the political/military relations between leadership figures.
		His position allowed him to be able to fund and give cover to individuals from the ASG and MILF while en route to radical religious training in Pakistan or to the terrorist training camps of Afghanistan.
		In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and the crackdowns on the Islamist networks, Islamist-supporting organizations began a campaign where they tried to claim that ethnic profiling was taking place by law enforcement agencies in the West and that a climate of fear existed within the Muslim communities.
	www.mackenzieinstitute.com /2003/al_qaeda_network3.htm (3968 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Strength of Iraqi insurgency is upgraded
		When foreign fighters and the network of a Jordanian militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, are counted with home-grown insurgents, the hard-core resistance numbers between 8,000 and 12,000 people, a tally that grows to more than 20,000 when active sympathizers or covert accomplices are included, according to the American officials.
		Earlier estimates of the number of insurgents had varied from as few as 2,000 to a maximum of 7,000 fighters.
		These officials said that, in many places, secular Sunni insurgent leaders — mostly Saddam-era loyalists — are being challenged and even surpassed in authority by militant Islamic activists from within Iraq.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595100038,00.html (1801 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		A sparse network of air, ocean, river, and land routes circumscribes the Arctic Ocean.
		A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part by funds from the drug trade.
		An anti-insurgent army of paramilitaries has grown to be several thousand strong in recent years, challenging the insurgents for control of territory and illicit industries such as the drug trade and the government's ability to exert its dominion over rural areas.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html (15472 words)

	Estimates by U.S. See More Rebels With More Funds
		When foreign fighters and the network of a Jordanian militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, are counted with home-grown insurgents, the hard-core resistance numbers between 8,000 and 12,000 people, a tally that swells to more than 20,000 when active sympathizers or covert accomplices are included, according to the American officials.
		And Pentagon officials say that some members of the Zarqawi network have fled Falluja, and that those still inside are setting up military-style defenses in anticipation of a ground attack.
		Marine intelligence officers responsible for operations in western Iraq said there were at least five major insurgent leaders of the groups operating in Falluja, whose aim is to undermine the fledgling Iraqi government, drive out the American troops and make money through smuggling and extortion rackets.
	www.wadinet.de /news/iraq/newsarticle.php?id=337 (1601 words)

	Coalition Beats Back Afghan Insurgent Attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Combined Forces Command Afghanistan officials reported that coalition aircraft and ground forces were used to suppress insurgent mortar, rocket and small-arms fire.
		Insurgents also "fired indiscriminately" at Afghan villagers, according to a press release.
		One insurgent killed himself with a grenade, injuring seven Afghan children in the process.
	www.ncopd.com /Articles/387.html (251 words)

	Iraq Town Yields Arms, Not Men
		In one incident, insurgents in two vehicles drove to an area near a Marine position, got out and began to attack with small-arms fire, said Capt. Jeffrey S. Pool, a spokesman for the Marines in Ramadi.
		Four insurgents were killed in a subsequent gun battle, and a fifth man surrendered to the Marines.
		At a hospital in the border town of Qaim, Ali Rawi, a doctor, said 12 civilians were killed in an airstrike on Sadah at the start of a U.S. military operation.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/02/AR2005100200479_pf.html (717 words)

	Iraq - It's Happening Forums
		The insurgents "are losing the Iraqi people," the US and its allies are "making steady progress," and political developments inside Iraq point to "a strategic breakthrough," she said.
		Professor Cole says that Secretary Rice was correct to point out over the weekend that the key goal is to drain popular support for the insurgency within the Sunni Arab communities in the center of the country, but he disagrees that there's evidence this is happening.
		In the city of Tal Afar in the north, violence still rages, despite three major US offensives there in the past two years; and while the once notorious Haifa Street in central Baghdad was pacified by joint US and Iraqi military efforts this spring, suicide attacks continue in other parts of the city.
	www.wincoast.com /forum/showthread.php?t=271 (5298 words)

	CNN.com - U.S., Iraqi forces launch anti-insurgent campaign - Mar 16, 2006
		Samarra, about 75 miles (121 kilometers) north of Baghdad, was the scene of the bombing February 22 of a revered Shiite Muslim shrine that triggered a surge in sectarian violence and brought the country to the brink of civil war.
		Zebari said the area has been a transit point for insurgents looking to carry out attacks and "create another Falluja," referring to an insurgent command center in that western Iraqi city that was scene of a bloody offensive in 2004.
		The suspected insurgents being targeted are believed to be responsible for lootings and killings, including the deaths of three Al-Arabiya television journalists killed in Samarra when they were reporting on the shrine bombing.
	edition.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/meast/03/16/iraq.main/index.html (1132 words)

	Iraqi insurgent leader may be wounded, ill - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Al-Zarqawi is believed by U.S. officials to lead a network of insurgent cells that has been behind many violent attacks in Iraq.
		Riyadh Abu Dhiba, an insurgent in an Iraqi militant group, said April 28 that al-Zarqawi had been visiting his top aide, who was hurt in an unspecified clash.
		The insurgent said al-Zarqawi at times has brought doctors to his hiding places to care for the injured.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/mostread/s_331186.html (822 words)

	"Iraqi, Coalition Forces Rack up Successes Against Insurgents" - The Military Family Network
		Two suspected insurgents were captured during a synchronized joint raid led by Iraqi army troops.
		The raid's objective was to capture insurgents known to be living in the area, prevent them from conducting further attacks on Iraqi and coalition Forces, and to gather intelligence.
		Troops detained the military-aged males for suspected insurgent activities during the course of conducting security patrols in the area.
	www.emilitary.org /article.php?aid=6109 (638 words)

	Failed Attack Leaves One Insurgent Dead, Seven Captured (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		When one of the vehicles was fired upon, another pick-up truck approached at high speed, drove through a chain-link gate marking the outer perimeter, and immediately came under fire from the Marines securing the compound.
		While under direct fire, the vehicle exploded before reaching the main security wall of the complex, killing one insurgent who appears to have been the lone occupant driving the pick-up truck.
		A number of 155 mm artillery rounds were found strewn among the debris of the vehicle, indicating it was intended to be used as an improvised explosive device to kill MNF troops or destroy a section of the main security wall, officials said.
	www.armedforces.net /Detailed/2259.html (388 words)

	Iraq: Commanders Say Crackdown On Insurgents Successful In Al-Fallujah, Mosul - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		U.S.-led forces are also said to be closing in on remaining insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
		Sattler said the attack on Al-Fallujah had disrupted the insurgent network, but he predicted that those who had escaped the city will try to stage attacks in other areas of Iraq.
		Sattler said some 1,200 insurgents were killed in the Al-Fallujah operation and more than 1,000 captured.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/11/23ffa210-e5db-4852-926f-6932da49bc1a.html (741 words)

	Terror Watch: Who’s Really Behind Insurgency? - Newsweek The War in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		But terror attacks by a far larger—and more ominous—insurgent network organized by remnants of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime may be having an even more disruptive impact on U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq before nationwide elections scheduled for the end of January, according to U.S. and British intelligence officials.
		But a much larger network of former Saddam loyalists—directed by former leaders of Saddam's feared intelligence service, the Mukhabarat—may be playing an equal, if not even larger role in the Iraq insurgency.
		According to U.S. and British intelligence sources, the insurgent network of former Baathists consists of as many as 8,000 to 10,000 active fighters—a hard core 40 to 50 times the size of Zarqawi's coterie—and at least that number of tacit sympathizers or logistical supporters.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6346471/site/newsweek (1101 words)

	The Spectrum, St. George - www.thespectrum.com -
		Zarqawi's deadly jihadist network is active there, as are the homegrown Saddamist/Baathist insurgent groups fighting for Sunni supremacy.
		It's also clear from military statements that coalition forces have accelerated the "ops-tempo" around Ramadi in the last couple of months, mounting a series of local operations to destroy the insurgent network and clean out the toughest sections of the city.
		In addition, coalition civil affairs units have had key successes restoring telephone and Internet service to the city (the insurgents had cut the lines), and re-opening a glass factory that was one of Ramadi's major employers and is now again providing 2,300 jobs.
	www.thespectrum.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051130/OPINION02/511300322/1014 (674 words)

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