The CH-46 Sea Knight was flying over Karma, an Iraqi insurgent base near Falluja.
For the first time, two Iraqi insurgent groups named a spokesman to voice their demands, implying that they might be open to negotiation with the government.
One could go on listing examples of the Taliban's ideological and tactical collaboration with al Qaeda, but the larger point is that separating al Qaeda and the Taliban is not going to be as relatively simple as splintering Iraqi insurgent groups from al Qaeda in Iraq.
Iraqi officials believe the insurgent group is growing stronger and increasingly coordinating with allies fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad across the border.
But the passion of all sides Iraqi, American, ally and insurgent shows that if man can redirect his energies to one of acceptance and not intolerance, we can bring the zealot, the politician, the soldier and the outsider to a place where man is just that: man.
He pointed to success in pacifying an insurgent stronghold in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, near the Syrian border.
His unit continued to endure the constant barrage of attacks and some 35 firefights with insurgent forces over the scorching Iraqi summer.
It happens, of course: In Iraq, for instance, insurgent bombers all too often kill Iraqi civilians.
The agency recently received reports that Iraqi children have been recruited by militia and insurgent groups.
CNN: Kids' lives are nightmares in unstable nations, UNICEF reports
The Americans have hoped in vain that, once the insurgent grip is weakened in any town, the Iraqi police would over time build up the networks of informants they need to nip rebel activity in the bud.
Mr. HUDEFA ASSAM (Insurgent Sympathizer): I can tell you that the Iraqi resistance are improving day by day and getting a very good experience.
So the new government will face colossal challenges: the huge numbers of frustrated, unemployed Iraqi youths are a willing pool of recruits, not just for insurgent groups but also for the armed gangs and criminal underworld that hold sway in many parts of the country.
Still, some insurgent activity continues in Anbar and along the Nineveh province section of the Iraqi-Syrian border.
But optimists note that perhaps a hundred are now seen as ready to some degree, and Iraqi troops took a leading role in a recent offensive in Tel Afar, an insurgent stronghold.
Bush also drew a picture of his war-planning options amid a wave of sectarian and insurgent violence, continued casualties of U.S. forces and an Iraqi government that the report said is struggling to reconcile the fractious nation's many cultural differences.
Top U.S. officials, including President Bush, have said they are disappointed by the Iraqi government's slow rate of progress toward a political resolution of the country's insurgent and sectarian warfare.
Abu Omar, the insurgent leader, says he welcomes al Qaeda fighters, but stresses that the resistance is Iraqi.
But Iraqi commanders say it has also become a haven for insurgents who have fled the capital and the western insurgent hotbeds of Fallujah and Ramadi to carry their jihad northward.
One Iraqi minister today claimed that as many as 100, 000 families have been displaced so far by sectarian and insurgent fighting.
Anbar, once a battleground between al Qaeda in Iraq and U.S. and Iraqi security forces, has seen a drop in violence because many people in the region have joined the anti-insurgent "awakening" movement.
应用推荐