Monday, October 04, 2004
Iraq clusterfuck: Know your enemy
Your enemy in Iraq, that is. Here's what the Army thinks:
Wait a minute. There's a name I'd expect to see on that list. Al? Albert? Starts with a Q, maybe? Not Iraq. That ends with a Q. I know it'll come to me...
U.S. military commanders say Iraq's insurgency is roughly made up of four groups:
FORMER REGIME MEMBERS: Iraqi nationalists fighting to rebuild secular power lost when Saddam Hussein was deposed.
ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI ALLIES: Al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group; Ansar al-Islam, militia of Kurdish Islamic radicals; and Ansar al-Sunna, which seems to be Iraqis and others who follow conservative Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia.
SUPPORTERS OF ISLAMIC THEOCRACY: Iraqis who want to install governmental system based on Islamic law, much like in neighboring Iran.
MAHDI ARMY: Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia, only insurgent group based in Shiite Muslim community, Iraq's largest social bloc.
(via AP)
Wait a minute. There's a name I'd expect to see on that list. Al? Albert? Starts with a Q, maybe? Not Iraq. That ends with a Q. I know it'll come to me...