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Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |
 AJ. Brit expat gunned down in Riyadh. The pressure on expats continues.
4:38:40 PM 
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AT. Nice backgrounder/analysis on the demotion of Ismail Kahn in Herat.
11:30:13 AM
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Juan Cole. Good article on the political factors behind this war (although Juan gets some key portions of this analysis wrong). Global guerrillas provides the mechanism.
8:37:59 AM
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WP. Ineffective round-ups of insurgents. Also: Realization that the insurgency is a bottomless pit. Israelis are strarting to figure this out too. Rutigliano said he thought the Stryker Brigade had defeated local insurgents, but he predicted they'd be back. "It doesn't matter how many we kill, they'll always keep coming back," he said. "They've all got cousins, brothers. They have an endless supply."
7:31:19 AM
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WSJ. Iraq's Bazaar of violence is in full swing (note the use of criminal mercenaries as force multipliers): Increasingly, Iraqi and U.S. military officials also see signs that various elements of the insurgency are cooperating, as well as working with criminal gangs that operate across wide swaths of the country, including in the capital. In recent abductions, for example, hostages have been passed along from criminals to former Baathists and on to foreign Islamist fighters -- with weapons and cash flowing in the opposite direction, U.S. and Iraqi officials say.
7:21:12 AM
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BBC. Turkey's foreign minister warns the US. He added that if the operation continues in Talafar, "Turkey's cooperation on issues regarding Iraq will come to a total stop".
7:14:47 AM
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Yesterday's attack -- that shut down all of Iraq's electrical power -- is a classic example of what I am writing about on Global Guerrillas. It indicates that global guerrillas have derailed the entire process of globalization in Iraq. It is also unlikely to get better. The counter-insurgency being waged by the US (both in Iraq and across the globe) is so flawed that it is unlikely to stop its spread.
6:56:15 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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