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July 17, 2005
Jihadists In Iraq: A 'Thinking' And 'Adaptive' Enemy
David Rieff, who covered the war in Iraq for The Guardian and is writing a book about Islam in Europe, opined in a July 16, 2005 column that, On the battlefields of Iraq, American military officials now no longer deny the skill of the home-grown insurgents and foreign jihadists against whom they have been fighting since the fall of Saddam Hussein. In Pentagon language, US forces are fighting a "thinking" and "adapting" enemy.
He said, "The most important conclusion to draw from the July 7 terrorist bombings in London is that part of that enemy's "adaptation" is to continue the strikes against civilian targets in western capitals and western interests and tourist venues throughout the world that began with the attacks of September 11 2001 on New York and Washington, and have continued in such places as Bali, Istanbul, Madrid and now London."
See "Talking with the jihadists" for more of Mr. Rieff's insightful analysis.
Posted by Munir Umrani at July 17, 2005 09:01 PM
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