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Though US President George W Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been giving the impression that the insurgency situation in Iraq is improving, the American Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), which monitors the situation daily, says it has worsened.
"The insurgency in Iraq has grown in size and complexity over the past year. Attacks numbered approximately 25 per day one year ago," DIA Director Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington.
"Attacks on Iraq’s election day reached approximately 300, almost double the previous one day high of about 160 during last year’s Ramadan. Since the January 30 election, attacks have averaged around 60 per day and in the 1st two weeks dropped to approximately 50 per day," Jacoby said.
The pattern of attacks, he said, remains the same as last year. Approximately 80 per cent of all attacks occur in Sunni-dominated central Iraq.
The vice admiral also pointed out that multiple polls show favourable ratings for the US in the Muslim world "at all-time lows."
"A large majority of Jordanians oppose the War on Terrorism and believe that Iraqis will be ’worse off’ in the long term."
In Pakistan, he noted, a majority of the population holds a "favourable" view of Osama bin Ladin.
"Across the Middle East, surveys report suspicion over US motivation for the War on Terrorism. Overwhelming majorities in Morocco, Jordan and Saudi Arabia believe the US has a negative policy toward the Arab world."
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21 March 2005, 11:32
It’s cliche time -they made the bed.., chickens coming home to roost etc. What are the indigenous people of Iraq supposed to do ? Lie down and watch their fossil fuels being stolen?accept the incineration of their family members ?
They are trying to defend their homeland.
25 March 2005, 22:57
Are you aware that the great patriotic resistance is targeting Iraqi civilians? That one of the leaders is a Jordanian? That roughly 20% of its members are not Iraqis? The Brookings Institute estimates that about 2,500 insurgents are being killed or captured every month, and the Iraqi people are turning against them in larger numbers. They can’t keep replacing these losses.
30 March 2005, 15:48
Iraqi civilians being targeted are those who are helping the foreign occupiers (U. S.).
20% are not Iraqis? Is that multilateralism? That is what the U. S. does not have.
The Iraqi people are against the foreign invaders.
The U. S. will soon start a draft because it is having trouble replacing its losses.