It really doesn’t matter how many top Al Quaida leaders are taken out by U.S. and Iraqi troops. The fact is, that the insurgency is a far more efficient attack machine than it was during the beginning of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. All Al Quaida leaders are easily replaced.

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/r...i?ArtNum=96197

Attacks Hit Vital Security In Iraq

Source: Washington Times

Published: May 23, 2005

Author: By Sharon Behn

Iraq's insurgents are conducting increasingly sophisticated and lethal attacks on the private security companies that are crucial to the nation's reconstruction and the eventual departure of U.S. troops, contractors and U.S. officials say.

These contractors and officials point to the surprising level of planning and brutality involved in a May 8 attack on the British security company Hart Security Ltd., which provides protection to convoys, homes and individuals in Iraq.

Twelve out of 18 Iraqi and international guards were killed in the attack, in which insurgents ambushed a convoy escorting cargo for the U.S. forces from Baghdad to a base in al-Asat, about 90 miles west of the city.
Once resistance from the security team ended, the attackers moved in to finish off the wounded, then piled several of the bodies on top of a bomb so they could not be removed without setting off an explosion, sources said.
The terrorists taped the event, presumably to develop a training and recruiting tool and to study to refine their techniques. The six-minute video is available on the Internet with a claim of responsibility from the terrorist group Ansar al-Sunnah Army.

Security specialists said the terrorists appeared to have calibrated mortars in advance of the attack, permitting direct hits on the five-vehicle convoy just as it hit a series of hidden bombs laid out in a "daisy chain" along the road.

The militants then managed to split up the convoy and systematically wipe out members of each smaller component.
Such attacks "have become much more organized and much more complex," said one retired special-operations officer working as a security manager for a firm operating in Iraq.

In 2003, they were random small-arms fire. Then they escalated to roadside bombs — sometimes command-detonated or with tripwires. Then they escalated to car bombs that would run a ramp and pull into a convoy or traffic circle.

"And now they are very well organized, rehearsed, orchestrated, using a combination of rocket-propelled grenades, [roadside bombs] set in a daisy chain to get the wounded as they exit the vehicles, heavy machine guns, small arms and hand-thrown grenades," he said.




Bush commented on the above story by stating that increased terrorist attacks are a sign that they are growing desperate. But in the past, each time the terrorists have stepped up their attacks Bush utters the same nonsense.

Also Chaney has been spouting off recently about how we are breaking the backs of the Terrorists. How many times in the past has the administration said this before? I really wish the administration would stop commenting about how “we’ve broken the backs of the terrorists”. Every time the administration says this, in a matter of months the terrorist attacks become more lethal and more numerous.

Hopefully in this country, THE REAL PATRIOTS, will step up and demand a structured timetable for troop withdrawal.

We’ve seen a massive increase in death since the Iraq elections, not a decrease. But if Bush and his supporters see an increase of terrorist killings as a victory for the U.S. it clearly indicates who the desperate ones truly are.

The American people by ever growing majorities see how useless and senseless this war is. THAT’S NOT GOING TO CHANGE. Let Democracy prevail---in America.