Analysts dispute general&#39;s assessment of broken insurgency in ...
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Retaking Fallujah has &quot;broken the back of the insurgency,&quot; the US commander in Iraq said Thursday - an assessment far more optimistic than other analysts&#39; views and even a Marine Corps intelligence report.
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U.S. commanders say they've learned from past mistakes and are trying to lay the foundation for stability as they clear insurgents from this battleground city. But it's a slow process at a time when Congress and the U.S. public are demanding speedy results.
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BAGHDAD -- US troops sweeping through Fallujah yesterday found what appeared to be a command center used by followers of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and a US general expressed confidence the battle for the city has &quot;broken the back of the insurgency.&quot;
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As reflected in CIA classified studies last month, U.S. military and intelligence officials are still trying to understand the various Iraqi insurgency groups that they expect will continue to fight, even after last week's election.
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The Iraqi government&#039;s list of the 41 most wanted fugitives suggests that former members of Saddam Hussein&#039;s regime form the backbone of the insurgency despite attention paid to the role of religious extremists such as al-Qaida in Iraq.
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Iraq's struggling security forces  have had mixed results against a mounting insurgency and the  United States is examining if more funds are needed for this  nascent force, the U.S. government said on Thursday.
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American forces have been confounded by insurgents who have slipped away only to fight another day.
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The attack has highlighted fears that insurgents facing military crackdowns are shifting to remoter regions.
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Many military officers and civilian officials say the Bush administration's miscalculations in Iraq cost the U.S. valuable momentum.
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With the surge assessment just weeks away, U.S. commanders worry about massive insurgent attacks
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The report from a morgue official casts doubt on the effectiveness of an American operation to reduce violence in Baghdad.
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A reassessment by the Central Intelligence Agency has cast doubt on a central piece of evidence used by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq to draw links
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The senior US Marine commander in Iraq said Thursday that the US-led offensive in Fallujah has &#39;&#39;broken the back of the insurgency&#39;&#39; by seizing their main base of operations.
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There&#39;s been much night-vision hype and a lot of huff and puff about this week&#39;s US assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja. But perhaps a more accurate, if accidental, assessment was in the
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The intelligence community's bleak set of judgments about Iraq, made public yesterday, differs significantly from the flawed assessments of that country's alleged weapons programs that the White House released more than four years ago.
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The U.S. intelligence community has failed to provide policymakers with  a clear understanding of the Iraq insurgency, the role of militias or the level of violence in that country, according to the Iraq Study Group.
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Yet it&#39;s clear chaos has escalated and violence is becoming more co-ordinated. Some experts are calling Iraq a potential &quot;super rogue state&quot; and the next Lebanon.