Post by sciwriter on Dec 7, 2005 13:05:23 GMT -7
In recent history multiple insurgent groups fought occupiers. Carl:
Communist or Nationalist or Country Occupiers
Leftist rightist
Partisans UPA (Ukrainian) Soviet Union Nazis WW2
Partisans Chetniks Yugoslavia Nazis WW2
Armya
Ludova Home Army Poland Nazis WW2
National
Liberation
Army Balli Albania Nazis WW2
Kombetar
Haganah Irgun Israel Britain
Post-WW2
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www.vor.ru/English/Urgent_Issues/program.phtml?act=345
U.S. AND ALLIES FACING MULTIPLE REBEL GROUPS IN IRAQ
By Yuri Reshetnikov
Voice of Russia on shortwave radio
US and allied troops in Iraq are faced with multiple insurgent groups in the country rather than a united opposition. This is the uncomforting truth that the allies have to deal with in that country.
American and allied officials have long been wondering about the identity of those ruthless and fearless men and women who oppose the allied forces in Iraq and try to disrupt stabilization in that country. The disquieting truth thus far uncovered is that there is a profusion of insurgent groups that helps them survive despite all efforts to weed them out.
The Bush administration has long maintained, and Mr. Bush reiterated in his speech as late as last week that the insurgency comprises merely three elements: disaffected Sunni Arabs, or "rejectionists", former Hussein government loyalists, who feel disenfranchised and thus bitter, and finally, foreign-born terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda.
But Iraqi and American officials on the ground in Iraq maintain that the single most important fact about the insurgency is that it consists not of a few groups but dozens, possibly as many as 100. And it is not, as often claimed in Washington, a unified organization whose members merely carry out order from their terrorist masterminds from up above. There's obviously a collection of smaller groups that frequently act out their own terrorist attacks and sometimes come together for a single attack. Each of them has his own leaders who are sometimes not even on speaking terms with each other.
The most notorious groups like Al Qaeda in Iraq appear to act as fronts, providing money, and expertise to smaller groups but they often claim responsibility for the goriest attacks, like suicide bombings, the majority of which are carried out by foreigners. As it now appears, foreigners involved in such attacks are no longer Arabs, or fundamentalist Muslims. One recent suicide attack in Iraq against American troops was carried out by a full-blood European - a Belgian Muslim convert. And that is truly a nightmarish scenario come true for the allies in Iraq. Any European-born Muslim is now open for conversion to violence tactics, as the summer bombings in London showed. There's no question that such groups our unified and inspired in spirit and attitudes, which are mostly anti-Western and anti-American but otherwise independent and hard to flush out, because they prefer to lie low and generally enjoy the support of the Iraqi population. Otherwise it is hard to imagine how they succeed to plant road-side bombs in broad light without being detected or pinpointed by Iraqi civilians who have no business with terrorism.
Despite the awesome US and allied military presence and their superior and more powerful weapons, the insurgents' sheer numbers and their survival instincts present the most difficult long-term challenge for the Iraqi government and American commanders. US officials do not concur on the approximate number of Iraq's insurgents, but they are believed to number anywhere between 20 and 40 thousand of active gunmen, whose ranks are regularly replenished as some are knocked out. In short, the allies in Iraq are faced with a regular hydra come true: as one head is severed, it is quickly replaced by another. It would take a Hercules to deal with it successfully.
12/05/2005
Communist or Nationalist or Country Occupiers
Leftist rightist
Partisans UPA (Ukrainian) Soviet Union Nazis WW2
Partisans Chetniks Yugoslavia Nazis WW2
Armya
Ludova Home Army Poland Nazis WW2
National
Liberation
Army Balli Albania Nazis WW2
Kombetar
Haganah Irgun Israel Britain
Post-WW2
_____________________________________________________
www.vor.ru/English/Urgent_Issues/program.phtml?act=345
U.S. AND ALLIES FACING MULTIPLE REBEL GROUPS IN IRAQ
By Yuri Reshetnikov
Voice of Russia on shortwave radio
US and allied troops in Iraq are faced with multiple insurgent groups in the country rather than a united opposition. This is the uncomforting truth that the allies have to deal with in that country.
American and allied officials have long been wondering about the identity of those ruthless and fearless men and women who oppose the allied forces in Iraq and try to disrupt stabilization in that country. The disquieting truth thus far uncovered is that there is a profusion of insurgent groups that helps them survive despite all efforts to weed them out.
The Bush administration has long maintained, and Mr. Bush reiterated in his speech as late as last week that the insurgency comprises merely three elements: disaffected Sunni Arabs, or "rejectionists", former Hussein government loyalists, who feel disenfranchised and thus bitter, and finally, foreign-born terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda.
But Iraqi and American officials on the ground in Iraq maintain that the single most important fact about the insurgency is that it consists not of a few groups but dozens, possibly as many as 100. And it is not, as often claimed in Washington, a unified organization whose members merely carry out order from their terrorist masterminds from up above. There's obviously a collection of smaller groups that frequently act out their own terrorist attacks and sometimes come together for a single attack. Each of them has his own leaders who are sometimes not even on speaking terms with each other.
The most notorious groups like Al Qaeda in Iraq appear to act as fronts, providing money, and expertise to smaller groups but they often claim responsibility for the goriest attacks, like suicide bombings, the majority of which are carried out by foreigners. As it now appears, foreigners involved in such attacks are no longer Arabs, or fundamentalist Muslims. One recent suicide attack in Iraq against American troops was carried out by a full-blood European - a Belgian Muslim convert. And that is truly a nightmarish scenario come true for the allies in Iraq. Any European-born Muslim is now open for conversion to violence tactics, as the summer bombings in London showed. There's no question that such groups our unified and inspired in spirit and attitudes, which are mostly anti-Western and anti-American but otherwise independent and hard to flush out, because they prefer to lie low and generally enjoy the support of the Iraqi population. Otherwise it is hard to imagine how they succeed to plant road-side bombs in broad light without being detected or pinpointed by Iraqi civilians who have no business with terrorism.
Despite the awesome US and allied military presence and their superior and more powerful weapons, the insurgents' sheer numbers and their survival instincts present the most difficult long-term challenge for the Iraqi government and American commanders. US officials do not concur on the approximate number of Iraq's insurgents, but they are believed to number anywhere between 20 and 40 thousand of active gunmen, whose ranks are regularly replenished as some are knocked out. In short, the allies in Iraq are faced with a regular hydra come true: as one head is severed, it is quickly replaced by another. It would take a Hercules to deal with it successfully.
12/05/2005
