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Resistance To Us Military Presence

Juan Cole 01/06/2004

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Resistance to US Military Presence Continues Unabated in Iraq

A reader asked me about my claim that the pace of attacks on US troops hasn’t slowed since Saddam’s capture. The phrase is the title of a recent report by

Tom Lasseter of Knight-Ridder. He reveals that top US generals in Iraq do not think Saddam was directing the resistance; do not think it is under a unified command; and do not think that capturing Saddam will cause it to subside. He also says that Saddam has denied any links to al-Qaeda in his responses to US interrogation. He gives figures for the attacks since December 13, many of which were large and coordinated (e.g. Christmas Day, Karbala).

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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