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added 2007 Thu Jun 14 19:01:11 by populist
I was shocked to find out tonight that the United States was arming Sunni insurgents in Iraq so long as they promise to use them against the bad guys and not us. I was doubly shocked to find out that they've quietly been doing this for the last few months.
added 2007 Mon Jun 11 6:07:10 by TechnologyExpert
With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight militants linked with Al Qaeda who have been their allies in the past.
added 2007 Tue May 15 7:18:35 by bubba2
Thousands of Iraqis have been fleeing Diyala province over the past week after an increase in attacks by armed groups and a major offensive by US and Iraqi troops. Sunni insurgents have been establishing a Taliban-style rule over the local population in Diyala province and this has caused the death of many residents, including women and children.
added 2007 Mon May 14 13:49:49 by MyWayOnNow
U.S. and Iraqi forces exchanged fire with suspected Sunni insurgents, killing two and wounding four of them during a massive search for three missing American soldiers in a volatile area south of Baghdad, the Iraqi army said.
added 2007 Sat Apr 21 4:00:32 by populist
AN INSURGENT coalition yesterday announced an "Islamic Cabinet" for Iraqi as it attempted to provide an alternative to the country's US-backed administration.
added 2007 Wed Mar 21 17:57:05 by TechnologyExpert
Somali insurgents dragged soldiers' bodies through the streets of Mogadishu before burning them on Wednesday in heavy fighting that killed at least 13 people and injured scores more, witnesses said. The corpses of five soldiers--either from the Somali government army or their Ethiopian allies--were desecrated during some of the worst clashes in
added 2007 Tue Mar 20 23:32:53 by txclimber
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday.
added 2007 Sun Mar 18 7:32:08 by TechnologyExpert
Three Muslim schoolchildren were killed and seven injured in an attack by suspected insurgents at an Islamic school in restive southern Thailand, police said Sunday. The attack occurred late Saturday evening at the Bamrungsart Pohnor school, a Muslim boarding school in Songkhla province, said police Col. Thammasak Wasaksiri.
added 2007 Mon Mar 12 1:36:46 by bubba2
Thousands of Iraqis who risked their lives to help the U.S. in Iraq as translators, office help, and construction workers, are now labeled collaborators by the insurgents. Many want to come to America because their lives are in jeopardy, but they are having a hard time doing so. Major General Paul Eaton says it is a 'morality' issue for the U.S.

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added 2007 Fri Feb 23 22:33:01 by okitech
Northrop Grumman is developing a "biometric" intelligence system to help U.S. troops keep tabs on suspected terrorists and insurgents. The system, which identifies people by their fingerprints, iris patterns or other biological metrics, is meant to meet a need identified by U.S. forces in Iraq
added 2007 Thu Feb 15 12:40:12 by unknown user
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added 2007 Mon Jan 29 9:54:21 by STONERS
U.S.-backed Iraqi troops on Sunday attacked insurgents allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival, and an Iraqi official estimated some 300 militants died in the daylong battle near Najaf. A U.S. helicopter crashed during the fight, killing two American soldiers.
added 2007 Thu Jan 25 9:09:37 by STONERS
U.S. and Iraqi troops battled Sunni insurgents hiding in high-rise buildings on Haifa Street in the heart of Baghdad Wednesday, with snipers on roofs taking aim at gunmen in open windows as Apache attack helicopters hovered overhead.
added 2007 Fri Jan 12 19:12:19 by Mintyfunk
Nato Forces in Afghanistan claimed yesterday to have thwarted a major Taliban border incursion from Pakistan by killing up to 150 insurgents in a night-time operation.