Spoetnik
09-10-04, 16:47
U.S. plan for Iraq starts with taming insurgents
Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker NYT
Saturday, October 9, 2004
WASHINGTON Pentagon planners and military commanders have identified roughly 20 to 30 towns and cities in Iraq that must be brought under control before elections can be held there in January, and have devised detailed ways of deciding which ones should be early priorities, according to senior administration and military officials.
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Recent military operations to quell the Iraqi insurgency in Tal Afar, Samarra and south of Baghdad are the first and most visible signs of the new six-pronged strategy for Iraq, approved at the highest levels of the Bush administration, the officials said. While elements of the plan have been discussed in generalities recently, the officials described it in much more detail, calling it a comprehensive guideline to their actions in the next few months. As U.S. military deaths have increased in Iraq and commanders struggle to combat a tenacious insurgency and a deadly spate of bombings, even Bush administration officials involved in creating the plan acknowledge that U.S. forces face a difficult task and that success is far from guaranteed.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/542802.html
Hieruit blijkt wel dat de Iraakse opstand veel groter is dan de VS willen toegeven (die geven immers Zarqawi de schuld van alles). Bovendien, gezien het groot aantal onschuldige slachtoffers in Tal Afar en Samarra betekent dit weinig goeds voor de inwoners van deze steden.
Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker NYT
Saturday, October 9, 2004
WASHINGTON Pentagon planners and military commanders have identified roughly 20 to 30 towns and cities in Iraq that must be brought under control before elections can be held there in January, and have devised detailed ways of deciding which ones should be early priorities, according to senior administration and military officials.
.
Recent military operations to quell the Iraqi insurgency in Tal Afar, Samarra and south of Baghdad are the first and most visible signs of the new six-pronged strategy for Iraq, approved at the highest levels of the Bush administration, the officials said. While elements of the plan have been discussed in generalities recently, the officials described it in much more detail, calling it a comprehensive guideline to their actions in the next few months. As U.S. military deaths have increased in Iraq and commanders struggle to combat a tenacious insurgency and a deadly spate of bombings, even Bush administration officials involved in creating the plan acknowledge that U.S. forces face a difficult task and that success is far from guaranteed.
(....)
http://www.iht.com/articles/542802.html
Hieruit blijkt wel dat de Iraakse opstand veel groter is dan de VS willen toegeven (die geven immers Zarqawi de schuld van alles). Bovendien, gezien het groot aantal onschuldige slachtoffers in Tal Afar en Samarra betekent dit weinig goeds voor de inwoners van deze steden.