Iraq War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Iraq War , also known as the Occupation of Iraq or Operation Iraqi Freedom , is an ongoing military campaign which began on March 20, 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force ...
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What the history books should also record, revealed here for the first time, is that the Sunni insurgents had offered to come to terms with the Americans 30 months earlier, in the summer of 2004, during secret talks with senior U.S. officials and military commanders. ... The Sunnis were gathered by an Iraqi named Talal al-Gaaod,
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www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/05/iraqi-insu...
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have become the principal popular support for most of the Sunni Arab and foreign insurgents," says Kenneth Pollack, a Middle East specialist at the Brookings Institution. Like other experts, Mr. Pollack stresses the existence of a popular base of support that is sustaining Iraqi insurgents.
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Jack Keane, a former deputy chief of staff for the Army, said that US and Iraqi forces had killed or captured over 50,000 Iraqi insurgents since the begining of 2005. The Pentagon had been previously stated that 15,000 to 16,000 Iraqis were in custody in Iraq.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, yesterday denied that Iran had supplied weapons to Iraqi insurgents. But on Sunday US officials in Baghdad displayed a range of weapons they claimed had originated in Iran.
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The Ramadi ExperimentWhat do the Iraqi insurgents really want? ... If the Ramadi experiment works, this last group—the simply angry Iraqis—might drop away. The question, then, becomes: What do the citizens of Ramadi want? If the more militant insurgents continue their attacks, though this time around against Iraqi targets,
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In the short term, there is a small but measurable cost to open public debate in the form of higher attacks against Iraqi and American targets. ... This means that insurgents may not be increasing the number of attacks after all but simply changing the days on which they attack in response to media reports...
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www.usnews.com/articles/news/iraq/2008/03/12/are-iraqi-...
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Turner's description of the Iraqi insurgents and terrorists who want to crush any freedom in Iraq as “patriots” is reminiscent of how NBC's Matt Lauer saw them back in 2004. The Wednesday, November 10, 2004 MRC CyberAlert article, “Lauer Equates George Washington's Rag Tag Army to Iraqi Insurgents,” recounted:
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Asked to respond to a report that U.S. military representatives had meetings with several Sunni Iraqi insurgents twice in June, Rumsfeld told Fox News that "there have probably been many more than that" and described the contacts as an effort to "split people off and get some people to be supportive" of the...
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