Reply #27: ''They plan to beat us''---ominous article... [View All]

[Gloria]

1//Inter Press Service April 1, 2004

http://www.ips.org/index.htm


from the World Media Watch...About Fallujah, but much of it pertains to all of Iraq

FALLUJAH PUNCTURES WASHINGTON’S OPTIMISM

Analysis by Jim Lobe

1//Inter Press Service, Italy--ANALYSIS: FALLUJAH PUNCTURES WASHINGTON’S OPTIMISM (… Iraq suddenly, if gruesomely, recaptured the headlines with Wednesday's horrific killings of four private U.S. security contractors, whose fiery and grisly end at the hands of an angry mob in the chronically rebellious city of Fallujah was caught on videotape…The pattern of these attacks suggested to T.X. Hammes, a senior military fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies who just returned from a two-month assignment in Iraq, that occupation forces face a real insurgency that will not be defeated in the short term. ''They plan to beat us'', he wrote, adding that the opposition now consists of disparate groups who are loosely allied ''to drive the U.S.-led coalition out of Iraq''. The ''quality'' of the mob's violence in the attack on the four security workers -- all former members of U.S. Special Operations Forces -- also struck Juan Cole, an Iraq specialist at the University of Michigan, as both remarkable and ominous.)