Iraqi insurgency: Articles & Commentary 2004

The following are Articles & Commentary for 2004 related to the Iraqi insurgency.

Also see:
 * Articles & Commentary for 2003; 2005; 2006; and 2007.


 * Operation Iraqi Freedom: Year Two


 * Dana Dillon and Melissa Parham, "The Iraqi Mafia: An Evolving Insurgency," Heritage Foundation, January 15, 2004.
 * Nicholas Blanford, "Insurgent and soldier: two views on Iraq fight. The capture and killing of two key insurgent figures this week marks progress for US in the ongoing fighting in Iraq," Christian Science Monitor, February 25, 2004.
 * Hani al-Siba'i, "Terrorism: Jihadist Website Describes Jihadist Movements in Iraq," FBIS Report (Remote Post Blogspot), March 14, 2004.
 * Anne Barnard, "Anger over Fallujah reaches ears of the faithful," Boston Globe, April 11, 2004.
 * Jeffrey White and Ryan Phillips, "Insurgent Operations against the Highways in Iraq," Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 26, 2004.
 * Steven Metz and Raymond Millen, "Insurgency In Iraq And Afghanistan: Change And Continuity," Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA, May 25, 2004.
 * Bruce Hoffman, "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq," RAND Corporation, June 2004.
 * Andrew Krepinevich, "The War In Iraq: The Nature of Insurgency Warfare," Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, June 2, 2004.
 * Jeffrey Gettlemen, "The Re-Baathification of Falluja," New York Times (The Iraq Monitor), June 25, 2004.
 * Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, "Who exactly are the Iraqi resistance?" Guardian Unlimited (UK), June 25, 2004.
 * Edward Wong, "In Anger, Ordinary Iraqis Are Joining the Insurgency," New York Times (Common Dreams), June 28, 2004.
 * Jim Krane, "Military: Iraqi insurgency 20,000 strong," Associated Press (Eagle Tribune), July 9, 2004.
 * Nir Rosen, "Inside the Iraqi Resistance" (7-part series) Asia Times (GlobalPolicy.org), July 15-24, 2004.
 * Pamela Hess, "Analysis: Zen and the art of counterinsurgency," UPI (Washington Times), July 29, 2004.
 * Jeffrey White and Ryan Phillips, "Sadrist revolt provides lessons for counterinsurgency in Iraq," Jane's Intelligence Review (Washington Institute for Near East Policy), August 2004.
 * Dhiya Rassan, "Patchwork of Insurgent Groups Runs Fallujah. Various groups, from foreign fundamentalists to former Saddam loyalists, differ on points of Islamic law but unite to fight Coalition forces," Institute of War and Peace Reporting, September 17, 2004.
 * Ahmed S. Hashim, "Iraq's Chaos. Why the insurgency won’t go away," Boston Review, October/November 2004.
 * Samir Haddad and Mazin Ghazi, "An Inventory of Iraqi Resistance Groups 'Who Kills Hostages in Iraq?'" Al-Zawra (Arabic Weekly published by Iraqi Journalists Association) (U.S. Labor Against War), October 14, 2004.
 * John Diamond, "Prewar intelligence predicted Iraqi insurgency," USA Today, October 24, 2004.
 * Maxim Kniazkov, "Rumsfeld: We had no plans for Iraqi insurgency. US Defense Secretary implicitly admits lack of planning for handling insurgency in Iraq after invading it," Middle East Online, October 27, 2004.
 * Ashraf Fahim, "The eternal circle of the Iraqi insurgency," Asia Times, October 30, 2004.
 * Ashraf Fahim, "Falluja and the Iraqi Insurgency," Middle East International Online, November 4, 2004.
 * John Robb, "Epidemic Insurgency" (Part 1), Global Guerrillas, November 17, 2004.
 * Rowan Scarborough, "U.S. declares insurgency 'broken'," Washington Times, November 19, 2004.
 * Hannah Allen, "Fallujah's real boss: Omar the electrician," Knight Ridder Newspapers (Seattle Times), November 22, 2004.
 * Hamza Hendawi, "Fallujah Leaders Were Local, Not Foreign," Associated Press (truthout.org), November 24, 2004.
 * Anthony Loyd, "Bungling raids by US troops fuel Iraqi anger," Times (London) (Remote Post Blogspot), December 11, 2004.
 * Rory McCarthy, "For faith and country: insurgents fight on. As a US general conceded Iraqi cells are getting more effective," Guardian Unlimited (UK), December 16, 2004.
 * Edward T. Pound, "The Baghdad Files: A trove of secret intelligence reports shows how Saddam Hussein planned the current insurgency in Iraq. Long before the invasion that toppled his regime was even launched," U.S. News & World Report (Remote Post Blogspot), December 20, 2004.
 * "City of ghosts," Guardian Unlimited (UK), December 22, 2004.
 * Steven Metz, "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq," The Washington Quarterly, Winter 2004.