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Violence in Iraq Reaches 2003 Levels
Summer 2003 was the moment, roughly, when the insurgency in Iraq began to coalesce. (Naturally, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted no such thing was happening.) Five and a half years later, violence in Iraq has dropped down to the levels of … the beginning of the insurgency. Maj. Gen. David Perkins, a top official with [...]
Anbar Re-Awakening: Provincial Elections Edition
The Anbar Awakening — the collection of tribes in Iraq’s Anbar Province that in 2006 broke with Al Qaeda and embraced a partnership with U.S. forces — had extremely high expectations for capturing the province’s government from the entrenched Iraqi Islamic Party in Saturday’s election. But it looks like that didn’t happen, and now the [...]
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