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Iraq battling more than 200,000 insurgents

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Wednesday January 05, 2005 01:29author by pc Report this post to the editors

more in number then the US army in Iraq

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq's insurgency counts more than 200,000 active fighters and sympathisers, the country's national intelligence chief told AFP, in the bleakest assessment to date of the armed revolt waged by Sunni Muslims.

"I think the resistance is bigger than the US military in Iraq. I think the resistance is more than 200,000 people," Iraqi intelligence service director General Mohammad Abdullah Shahwani said in an interview ahead of the January 30 elections...

bleak,bleaker, bleakest...

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   All out war     pc    Wed Jan 05, 2005 05:07 
   Iraq     ZXBarcalow    Wed Jan 05, 2005 16:26 
   the liberty bomb     kintama    Thu Jan 06, 2005 00:53 
   200,000 sympathisers not all active fighters...     pc    Thu Jan 06, 2005 21:58 
   Question is, how does one create 200,000 insurgents?     redjade    Sat Jan 08, 2005 16:11 
   American Dogs starve in Iraq, Soldiers beg for food     redjade    Sun Jan 09, 2005 14:30 
   Desperation.     redjade    Tue Jan 11, 2005 19:53 
   US ARMY Seargeant Defires Orders other go AWOL     pc    Wed Jan 12, 2005 04:00 
   How Many Troops Would It Take to Defeat the 200,000-strong Guerrilla Insurgency?     Yoshie Furuhashi    Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:30 
 10   Interesting but flawed     Jonah    Fri Jan 14, 2005 13:08 
 11   Technology Is a Double-Edged Sword     Yoshie    Fri Jan 14, 2005 13:25 
 12   Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi on Crack     mise    Fri Jan 14, 2005 13:47 
 13   Analysis is spot on     Ali H.    Fri Jan 14, 2005 13:57 
 14   How much democracy does it take?     Noel    Fri Jan 14, 2005 14:07 
 15   Well, they could always try this tactic....     redjade    Fri Jan 14, 2005 14:59 
 16   CIA Think Tank says: Iraq New Terror Breeding Ground     redjade    Fri Jan 14, 2005 15:27 
 17   The Iraqis     elNo    Fri Jan 14, 2005 15:50 
 18   Whow knew     Noel    Fri Jan 14, 2005 15:58 
 19   Are there REALLY 225K?     Lone Gunman    Fri Jan 14, 2005 19:48 
 20   yes flawed artilce     pc    Fri Jan 14, 2005 19:54 
 21   re: Lone Gunman     ZXBarcalow    Fri Jan 14, 2005 23:57 
 22   Actually...     ZXBarcalow    Sat Jan 15, 2005 00:11 
 23   Yanks---FOAD     Scoite    Sun Jan 16, 2005 00:51 
 24   lonegunman     hs    Sun Jan 16, 2005 00:55 
 25   Culture     Scoite    Sun Jan 16, 2005 01:16 
 26   well Lone Gunman     ZBarcalow    Sun Jan 16, 2005 03:01 
 27   number crunching isn't it.     ping    Wed Jul 20, 2005 16:54 
 28   Muqtada al Sadr accuses US and Britain of creating sectarianism     interesting    Wed Jul 20, 2005 19:45 


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