Posted by
Richard on Friday, September 01, 2006 4:13:50 PM
Pentagon Gives Gloomy Iraq Report New York Post
By ROBERT BURNS
AP Military Writer
September 01 2006
"Sectarian violence is spreading in Iraq and the security problems have become more complex than at any time since the U.S. invasion in 2003, the Pentagon said Friday.
In a notably gloomy report to Congress, the Pentagon said illegal militias have become more entrenched, especially in Baghdad neighborhoods where they are seen as providers of both security and basic social services. "
Its almost Ironic that Hizbollah was doing the same thing in Lebanon. Meanwhile all those services were just a screen for what they were really doing, and that was building bases of operations from which to wage war.
It would not surprise me that these "insurgents" were mirroring the works of Hizbollah, and trying to goad the US Military into rushing into a trap.
However I offer a suggestion, and that is learn a lesson from Isreal. Probe, raid, gather intelligence. Then use whatever means is neccessary to root these people out. Start a propoganda campaign in which the terrorists are seen as heartless, cruel thugs that are bent only on destruction and care little as to who gets killed, maimed etc.
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