Iraqi Civilians, Army Remnants Behind Resistance

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http://www.islamonline.net/english/In_Depth/Iraq_Aftermath/2003/11/article_08.shtml
This is part 2 with a link to part 1. It discusses Iraqi casualties as well as who is behind the resistance.
There is also a link in this story to the Human Rights Watch report titled Violent Response: The U.S. Army in al-Falluja. It's long, but interesting.


In less than one week of attacks by resistance cells in Iraq, United States forces have had 36 fatalities (22 from two different helicopter downings) and 200 wounded. The British have lost a commando and the Polish contingent (numbering some 2,400) has lost a major. Last week, the Italians lost 18 soldiers and yet another attack on US forces cost 19 lives and two destroyed Black Hawk helicopters.

The level of sophistication and the intensity of hostilities targeting US forces have surged dramatically. It has become a nearly nightly event for mortars to be lobbed into the US compound in central Baghdad, behind what is loosely called “the green line.”

Last week, the Los Angeles Times slapped a ban on the use of “resistance fighters” as a term to describe groups targeting US forces in Iraq. The terms “insurgents” and “guerillas” are to be used instead.

Before examining further just who comprises the Iraqi resistance, it is crucial to gloss over a few reports emerging from Iraq (but receiving little to no airtime in North American press) that paint a disturbing picture of Iraqi civilian deaths and may offer clues as to the nature of the Iraqi resistance

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