AP: Iraq Insurgency Larger Than Thought

[russian33]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraq (news - web sites) insurgency is far larger than the 5,000 guerrillas previously thought to be at its core, U.S. military officials say, and it's being led by well-armed Iraqi Sunnis angry at being pushed from power alongside Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).

Although U.S. military analysts disagree over the exact size, dozens of regional cells, often led by tribal sheiks and inspired by Sunni Muslim imams, can call upon part-time fighters to boost forces to as high as 20,000 — an estimate reflected in the insurgency's continued strength after U.S. forces killed as many as 4,000 in April alone.

And some insurgents are highly specialized — one Baghdad cell, for instance, has two leaders, one assassin, and two groups of bomb-makers.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040709/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_insurgency&cid=540&ncid=716



Noooo! Really? Get out of town? But the TV and Dear Leader said that it's a handful of Saddam lovers?

[Joanne98]

1. But but but they're dead-enders, losers

They can't win........(sarcasm)

[southernleftylady]

2. no shit! they could have asked me and I could have told them that! n/t

[Kinkistyle]

3. Winning hearts and minds....

... to the other side!! Thanks alot George W. Bush. We can all sleep a lot safer now that I know you've increased Anti-Americanism sentiment worldwide :crazy:

[Jade Fox]

4. How surprising.

:eyes:

[bloom]

5. I was glad to see this artlcle on yahoo

it seemed there was actually some reporting going on.

[teryang]

6. Really?

I thought we could invade a country in the heart of the Islamic world and that we would be welcomed as saviors.

Who would have thought that a country based on national resistance to western imperialism would fight western imperialist occupiers?

[Hanover_Fist]

7. Can you say ...............

Vietnam?