NYT: Reports in Iraq Show Attacks in Most Areas

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/29/international/middleeast/29attacks.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1096427816-997CivJhknsqwv6dCnGzyw&pagewanted=print&position=

Over the past 30 days, more than 2,300 attacks by insurgents have been directed against civilians and military targets in Iraq, in a pattern that sprawls over nearly every major population center outside the Kurdish north, according to comprehensive data compiled by a private security company with access to military intelligence reports and its own network of Iraqi informants.

The sweeping geographical reach of the attacks, from Nineveh and Salahuddin Provinces in the northwest to Babylon and Diyala in the center and Basra in the south, suggests a more widespread resistance than the isolated pockets described by Iraqi government officials.

The type of attacks ran the gamut: car bombs, time bombs, rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades, small-arms fire, mortar attacks and land mines.

"If you look at incident data and you put incident data on the map, it's not a few provinces, " said Adam Collins, a security expert and the chief intelligence official in Iraq for Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group Inc., a private security company based in Las Vegas that compiles and analyzes the data as a regular part of its operations in Iraq.

[hatrack]

1. Yes, but freedom's on the march in Iraq!

We toppled a brutal dictator, you hand-wringer, you!!

[Seabiscuit]

8. Wow! Isn't that a rosy picture!

"small pockets of disturbance", you say, eh?

Good grief!

P.S. to Moderator: sorry I started another thread on this topic - I hadn't found this original thread at the time.

[Moderator]

2. Graphic

[Jacobin]

3. But, look!!!

Things are relatively peaceful in the unpopulated desert!!!

[Barrett808]

4. kick

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

5. They look like....

the pedals of roses throuwn at the feet of the liberators....

it had to be said...

[mainer]

6. "We have had zero tactical losses; we have lost no battles,"

"We have had zero tactical losses; we have lost no battles," said one senior American military officer. "The insurgency has had zero tactical victories."

Hey, does anyone remember where we heard THIS before?

The war where we never lost a single battle. But lost the war.

I can't believe this "senior American military officer" said this with a straight face. Does he have no knowledge of the Vietnam war?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Don't worry everything is fine - Bagdhad Bush