September 23, 2004
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AN INVENTORY OF IRAQI RESISTANCE GROUPS
The numerous and diverse armed groups that are violently opposing
U.S. forces in Iraq
are itemized and categorized in a September 19 news article published
in Baghdad.
"After the fall of Baghdad into the hands of the Anglo-American
occupation on 9 April 2003, as a natural reaction, several sectors of
Iraqi society confronted the occupation. Resistance cells were
formed, the majority of which were of Islamic Sunni and pan-Arab
tendencies. These cells started in the shape of scattered groups,
without a unifying bond to bind them together."
"These groups and small cells started to grow gradually, until they
matured to some extent and acquired a clear personality that had its
own political and military weight. Then they started to pursue
combining themselves into larger groups."
See "Who
Kills Hostages in Iraq?" by Samir Haddad and Mazin Ghazi in
the Iraqi newspaper Al-Zawra, September 19 (translated by the CIA's
Foreign Broadcast Information Service).
© 2004, Federation of American Scientists.
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