Resistance begins to slow, but attacks are still fierce

[ckramer]

Insurgent attacks are down in Iraq. So are U.S. military casualties--significantly. But as the weekend assault on American forces at Abu Ghraib prison showed, U.S. officials have good reason to temper their optimism.

"People want to draw the conclusion that the insurgency is over," a U.S. military official said last week in Baghdad. "Don't think so."

The attack Saturday night on Abu Ghraib provided compelling evidence of that.

As many as 60 insurgents attacked the prison near Baghdad with two car bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire, the military said. More than 40 U.S. forces were wounded in the 40-minute firefight, officials said Sunday, as well as 13 prisoners.

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[jedr]

1. love the way this was swept under the carpet by msm,

all pope/shiavo, all the time..

[daleo]

3. Yes, we still know very few details of this.

It is hard to believe 40 wounded, 0 dead, though. What kind of weapon acts that way? Lately it seems to me that tasering 40 people would result in at least 1 death.

[davhill]

6. Terry Shavo was only wounded too

If a soldier can be kept "alive" on life support indefinitely it does not count as a combat death.

[MisterP]

2. good thing I saw "Apocalypse Now" last night, otherwise I might

have given this more than two seconds before laughing.

[saigon68]

9. Like every Guerrilla war the ACTION tends to EBB and FLOW

The Resistance needs to refit every now and then


Don't worry too long. They'll be back soon to commit new outrages against the CRUSADERS.


LOL

[Barrett808]

4. The "faltering insurgency" meme certainly is becoming pervasive

And there's almost nothing to support it.

[plcdude]

5. exactl;y

and it would not take much to up the numbers. However, it is quite obvious that the new strategy for the US military in Iraq is to stay out of harms way. They are virtually imprisoned to certain safe areas and are doing little to nothing in helping Iraq's recovery.

[Barrett808]

7. Imprisoned in our fortresses, just like the Crusaders before us

See Robert Fisk's analysis:

The US forces, like the Crusaders before them, are prisoners in their own fortresses
http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg107085.html
The Independent - United Kingdom
Apr 02, 2005
Robert Fisk

I drove Pat and Alice Carey up the coast of Lebanon this week to look
at some castles. Pat is a builder from County Wicklow, brave enough to
take a holiday with his wife in Beirut when all others are thinking of
running away. But I wanted to know what he thought of 12th-century
construction work.

How did he rate a Crusader keep? The most beautiful of Lebanon's
castles is the smallest, a dinky-toy palisade on an outcrop of rock
near the village of Batroun. You have to climb a set of well-polished
steps - no hand-rails, for this is Lebanon - up the sheer side of
Mseilha castle and then clamber over doorsills into the dark, damp
interior.

So we padded around the battlements for half an hour. "Strongly made
or they wouldn't be still here," Pat remarked. "But you wouldn't find
any company ready to put up the insurance. And in winter, it must have
been very, very cold."


And after some minutes, he looked at me with some intensity. "It's
like being in a prison," he said.

...

"You can see why the Crusaders couldn't last here," Pat said as we
walked out of the huge gateway of the Castle of Saint Gilles. "I
wonder if they even knew who they were fighting."

[jedr]

8. " those who don't read history are destine to repeat it"

[Moderator]

10. locking

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