Inside the resistance

[Robbien]

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Ahmed begins: "Yesterday we were told about the new movement of convoys, so we used a special car to take our RPG and guns up there. We struck at sunset, in an area surrounded by farms.

"We positioned ourselves as locals, just standing around. But as the convoy came into view we picked up the weapons which we had lying on the ground. There were 19 soldiers. I could see their faces. I fired three grenades - two at a truck and one at a Humvee. Then we escaped across the fields to a car that was waiting for us. It took just a few seconds because God makes it easy for us."

This is the third mission for Ahmed, a 32-year-old who has inherited family wealth, including a factory and a farm, and the fourth for Haqi, a 25-year-old Baghdad taxi-driver who defers to Ahmed as "my instructor". Their claim to success is in keeping with exaggerated local accounts of the hundreds of hit-and-miss resistance attacks on the US.

I checked. At Al Meshahda, near Tarmiya, which is 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, the road is scorched and gouged. Two local farmers, brothers Muhammad and Ibrahim Al Mishadani, insist three US soldiers died when the tail-end vehicles in a convoy were hit.

But the Americans reported no deaths from Tarmiya on Tuesday.

Much More

[Barrett808]

1. Chilling

"If the accounts of the resistance given to the Herald in interviews in the past 10 days are accurate, US intelligence is way behind understanding that what is emerging in Iraq is a centrally controlled movement, driven as much by nationalism as the mosque, a movement that has left Saddam and the Baath Party behind and already is getting foreign funds for its bid to drive out the US army."

We are so f*cked.

[pfitz59]

2. Tail-end Charlie =

Dead Meat! Worst place to be when fighting a guerilla war!

[reprobate]

3. Just shows the great planning done by the cabal.

I swear this bunch could fuck up a crowbar, even with the instructions.

The Gang That Can't Think Straight.

[Pillowbiter]

4. Well, on the bright side

my nephew is now out of Iraq because he injured his back and had to have back surgery.

On the dark side, my neice's husband is now in Tikrit, getting shot at by these resistance fighters.

I would say something about what would happen if either of these people got hurt or killed in this morass, but that could be taken as a threat against the president.

PB