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...military's credibility as an occupation force requires that those who would mount an armed challenge from a fixed position be quickly eliminated. But in the case of Fallujah, overwhelming force is plainly at odds with the Coalition's broader strategic goal of winning of broad Iraqi acceptance for a stable transition to sovereignty. Fallujah has already become the rallying point of a growing anti-occupation nationalism among Iraqis - a CNN/USA Today poll released Thursday found that almost two thirds of Iraqis now want U.S. troops to leave immediately - and further military action would inevitably deepen their alienation from...
...been struck. Even if it does go through, the proposal to send in a unit cobbled together from recalled elements of Saddam's army (and one that may be more inclined to enforce a cease-fire rather than to actually destroy the insurgents) highlights the strategic dilemma posed by Fallujah...
...Iraqi force, the Fallujah Protective Army, is to comprise some 1,100 Sunni Muslim men recruited by four Iraqi generals from among the ranks of the former army and police forces, and will be under the command of General Jasim Muhammad Saleh, a former Republican Guard division commander. The FPA would report to the local Marine commander, and will be charged with subduing insurgent activity in the city to end attacks from there on Coalition forces. Many of the insurgents fighting in Fallujah are believed to be former members of Saddam's Republican Guard and intelligence services, to whom...
...36th Battalion of Iraqi Civil Defense Corps had held firm. Or at least they had until last week. The Iraqi Defense Minister on Wednesday told Britain's Independent newspaper that a unit of the 36th had, in fact, rebelled last week and opted not to continue fighting in Fallujah. More ominously, perhaps, the split reportedly occurred on ethnic lines, with most of the Arab soldiers quitting while the Kurds agreed to fight...
...Renewed attempts to find a political solution in Fallujah question the core assumptions of Coalition leaders about the nature of the enemy. While Bush administration figures continue to portray the insurgents as a combination of Baathist thugs and foreign terrorists who must be eliminated to allow for political progress in Iraq, the United Nations - on whom the Coalition is now relying to produce a workable political formula for ending the occupation of Iraq - is seeing things quite differently. "The more the occupation is seen as taking steps that harm civilians and the population, the greater the ranks of the resistance...