Iraq's insurgents focus on creating civil strife (Spin spin spin)

[uppityperson]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002827723_insurgency25.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq — This week's surge in sectarian violence in Iraq — shootings, mosque burnings and mob attacks — is a chilling indicator of how successful the Sunni Muslim insurgency and foreign terrorists have been in fomenting unrest.

While U.S. combat deaths have declined in recent months — from 70 in November to 42 in January and 38 in February as of Friday — insurgents are still staging hundreds of attacks a week. Last week, they struck 555 times, according to American military officials.

The insurgency appears to be adjusting its tactics as confidence grows that U.S. troops will withdraw. Rather than killing American soldiers, the insurgents and foreign terrorists are more focused on creating civil strife that could destabilize Iraq's political process and possibly lead to outright ethnic and religious war...

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See, we need to stay there now, to keep those insurgents under control! I don't think this will work this time.

[Voice1]

1. So now it's "civil strife", not civil war? nt

[uppityperson]

2. sectarian problem it is

[Demeter]

3. To Every Thing, Turn, Turn, Turn

To every scam; spin, spin spin,

There is a scandal: spin, spin, spin,

And a time for every purpose under heaven.