Iraqi insurgency: Articles & Commentary 2003

The following are Articles & Commentary for 2003 related to the Iraqi insurgency.

Also see:
 * Articles & Commentary for 2004; 2005; 2006; and 2007.


 * Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom: Beginnings of a Quagmire.


 * "Saudis, Iran could back insurgency groups in Iraq," WorldTribune.com, May 6, 2003.
 * James T. Quinlivan, "Burden of Victory. The Painful Arithmetic of Stability Operations," RAND Corporation, Summer 2003.
 * Amatzia Baram, "The Iraqi Tribes and the Post-Saddam System," Iraq Memo #18, Brookings Institution, July 8, 2003.
 * "Iraqi Insurgency Shows No Signs of Letting Up Despite Deaths of Saddam Hussein's Sons," radiohc.cu, July 23, 2003.
 * Ahmed Hashim, "Iraqi Insurgency Is No Monolith," Pacific News Service (WBAI.org), July 23, 2003.
 * Louis Farshee, "Invasion and Resistance: The Iraqi Insurgent War," Information Clearing House, August 10, 2003.
 * Ahmed S. Hashim, "The Sunni Insurgency In Iraq," Middle East Institute, August 15, 2003.
 * Graham E. Fuller, "Iraqi Insurgency Enters a New Phase. Escalation of attacks suggests the enemy and strategy are changing," Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2003.
 * Jeffrey B. White and Michael Schmidmayr, "Resistance in Iraq," Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2003.
 * Zaki Chebab, "Inside the resistance. Popular anger is forging an alliance between diverse strands of Iraq's guerrilla movement," Guardian Unlimited (UK), October 13, 2003.
 * Dave Moniz, "Iraqi insurgency growing more effective, deadly," USA TODAY, October 28, 2003: "In the nearly six months since President Bush declared major combat over in Iraq, guerrilla forces have grown bolder, more sophisticated and more deadly."
 * Michael Knights and Jeffrey White, "Iraqi resistance proves resilient. Resistance elements within Iraq are adapting their tactics to the post-conflict environment, undermining coalition efforts to restore the peace," Jane's Intelligence Review (Washington Institute for Near East Policy), November 2003.
 * Ron Jensen, "Iraqi insurgency is waning, general says," Stars & Stripes, European Edition, November 9, 2003.
 * Jonathan S. Landay, "Iraqi insurgency is gaining converts, CIA report warns," Knight Ridder Newspapers, November 12, 2003.
 * Eric Schmitt, "General Says Hussein Loyalists Pose Growing Threat in Iraq," New York Times, November 13, 2003: General John P. Abizaid) said "the American-led occupation in Iraq faced no more than 5,000 guerrilla fighters, but that they were increasingly well organized, well financed and gradually expanding their attacks to the country's relatively calm north and south."
 * Julian Borger and Rory McCarthy, "'We could lose this situation'. CIA says insurgents now 50,000 strong," Guardian Unlimited (UK), November 13, 2003: "'There are thousands in the resistance - not just a core of Ba'athists. They are in the thousands, and growing every day. Not all those people are actually firing, but providing support, shelter and all that.'"
 * Jonathan S. Landay, "No more than 5,000 Iraqis fighting U.S., commander says," Knight Ridder Newspapers, November 13, 2003.
 * SGT Christopher Alexander, CPT Charles Kyle, and MAJ William S. McCallister, "The Iraqi Insurgent Movement," Naval Post Graduate School (Commonwealth Institute), November 14, 2003.
 * Ed Thibodeau, "The size of the Iraqi insurgency," nonplussed, November 14, 2003: CIA said there were 50,000 but General Abizaid said there were "no more than 5,000. That is a huge discrepency, and especially troubling given the well publicized infighting between the intelligence community and the Pentagon."
 * Drew Brown and Jeff Wilkinson, "U.S. forces begin `Iron Hammer' attack against Iraqi insurgency," Knight Ridder Newspapers, November 15, 2003.
 * Luke Baker, "U.S. Tough Tactics Risk Inflaming Iraq Insurgency," Reuters, November 18, 2003.
 * "Fears Iraqi Insurgency Spreading," CBS News, November 24, 2003.
 * Sabah Jerges, "Iraq insurgency highly coordinated," Associated Press, December 1, 2003.
 * Mark Burgess, "Slaying the Iraqi Hydra," Global Beat Syndicate, December 2, 2003.
 * Sabah Jerges, "Latest attack shows deadlier side of Iraqi insurgency. Co-ordinated ambushes signal escalation of guerrilla tactics," Associated Press, December 2, 2003.
 * Jim Krane, "U.S. generals detail Iraqi insurgency. A central leadership pays for attacks and gives broad orders to rebels, officials say," Associated Press, December 2, 2003.
 * Jim Hoagland, "Fighting a Culture of Gangsterism," Washington Post, December 3, 2003.
 * Tony Karon, "Learning the Art of Occupation from Israel. The U.S. military is reportedly turning to Israel for tips on how to manage the insurgency in Iraq. Will it work?" TIME Online, December 9, 2003.
 * Ivan Eland, "How operation 'Iraqi Freedom' becomes operation 'Iraqi Occupation'. Winning Over Arabs Using Israeli Tactics?" AlterNet, December 10, 2003.
 * Jim Lobe, "Future Uncertain as Saddam Unearthed," Inter Press Service (AlterNet), December 14, 2003.
 * "Saddam Not heading Iraqi Insurgency," Indymedia (UK), December 15, 2003.
 * Robert Fisk, "Capture Will Not Stop The Relentless Killings From Insurgents," The Independent (UK), December 15, 2003.
 * Stanley Weintraub, "Humiliating Photos (of Saddam Hussein) Could Backfire in Islamic World," USA Today, December 15, 2003.
 * John Buell, "Capturing the Wicked Witch of Iraq," Bangor Daily News (Maine), December 16, 2003.
 * Jim Lobe and Peyman Pejman, "Saddam is history, but who is the real enemy?" Asia Times, December 16, 2003: "...what should become clearer in the coming weeks and months is whether the insurgency consists largely of Saddam and Ba'ath loyalists, as the US administration insists."
 * Aleksander Vasovic, "Troops Raid Samarra, Iraq, for Militants," Associated Press, December 17, 2003.
 * Matthew Riemer, "Strategic trade-offs in Iraq," Asia Times, December 17, 2003.
 * Niles Lathem, "GIs Draining a Cold Ba'ath," New York Post, December 17, 2003.
 * Dana Priest and Walter Pincus, "Kay Plans to Leave Search for Iraqi Arms. Members of Survey Group He Heads Being Diverted to Fight Against Insurgents," Washington Post, December 18, 2003. *William Pfaff, "Saddam's Capture Bodes Ill for Bush's Re-election," International Tribune (Common Dreams), December 18, 2003.
 * Erin Solaro and Philip Gold, "The War Will Go on for a Battered Army," Seattle Times (Common Dreams), December 18, 2003: "Saddam Hussein is history. Trouble is, he has been history for some time now to the jihadi, the foreign adventurers, the remnant Baathist sociopaths and the rest of the anti-American resistance. They're fighting for their own reasons now. They do not need him. The war will go on."
 * Sam Gardiner, "Revealed -- Saddam's Network or a PSYOPS Campaign?" MediaChannel.org, December 19, 2003.
 * Pepe Escobar, "The Rat Trap, Part 1: How Saddam may still nail Bush," Asia Times, December 19, 2003.
 * Pepe Escobar, "The Rat Trap, Part 2: Why the resistance will increase," Asia Times, December 20, 2003.
 * Michelle Faul, "Iraqi guerrillas kill 2 GIs -- week's death toll rises to 10," Associated Press (Chicago Sun-Times), December 27, 2003: "...violence serving as a reminder that insurgents remain defiant despite the capture of Saddam Hussein."