TIME.com: TIME Exclusive: IRAQ INSURGENTS SHOW OFF FIREPOWER TO TIME
TIME Exclusive: IRAQ INSURGENTS SHOW OFF FIREPOWER TO TIME
TIME Interviews Dozens of Insurgents and Disgruntled Iraqis, Attends Resistance Meetings and Views Videotape of Attacks Against Coalition Forces
Guerillas Trying to Drive U.S. Casualties So High That American Public Turns Against The War "
New York -- U.S. intelligence experts now believe the Iraq insurgents are a volatile mix of groups and free-lancers who include loyalists of the former ruling Baath Party, Fedayeen militiamen, former Republican Guard and intelligence agents, foreign jihadis, professional terrorists, paid common criminals and disaffected Iraqis, TIME's Brian Bennett and Michael Ware report from Iraq.
Over the past three months, TIME has interviewed dozens of insurgents and disgruntled Iraqis, attended resistance meetings and viewed videotape of attacks against coalition forces. Often reporters have been required to submit to blindfolds, circuitous drives by night, vehicle switching, meetings that rarely occurred in the same place and, of course, frequent personal searches for phones and tracking devices. (At no time did TIME reporters have prior information about attacks.) As seen from the inside, the insurgency looks as complex and diverse an enemy as the U.S. could possibly face.
TIME Interviews Dozens of Insurgents and Disgruntled Iraqis, Attends Resistance Meetings and Views Videotape of Attacks Against Coalition Forces
: "TIME Exclusive: IRAQ INSURGENTS SHOW OFF FIREPOWER TO TIME
TIME Interviews Dozens of Insurgents and Disgruntled Iraqis, Attends Resistance Meetings and Views Videotape of Attacks Against Coalition Forces
Guerillas Trying to Drive U.S. Casualties So High That American Public Turns Against The War "
New York -- U.S. intelligence experts now believe the Iraq insurgents are a volatile mix of groups and free-lancers who include loyalists of the former ruling Baath Party, Fedayeen militiamen, former Republican Guard and intelligence agents, foreign jihadis, professional terrorists, paid common criminals and disaffected Iraqis, TIME's Brian Bennett and Michael Ware report from Iraq.
Over the past three months, TIME has interviewed dozens of insurgents and disgruntled Iraqis, attended resistance meetings and viewed videotape of attacks against coalition forces. Often reporters have been required to submit to blindfolds, circuitous drives by night, vehicle switching, meetings that rarely occurred in the same place and, of course, frequent personal searches for phones and tracking devices. (At no time did TIME reporters have prior information about attacks.) As seen from the inside, the insurgency looks as complex and diverse an enemy as the U.S. could possibly face.
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