STRATEGYPAGE ON IRAQ:

The Sunni Arab and foreign terrorists are resorting more to attacks on civilians. The security around government officials, as well as their homes and workplaces, has increased to the point where attackers are discouraged. These failed attacks are often not reported, but they are frequent. Interrogations of captured terrorists indicate that many attacks are called off when it is obvious that the attack would be futile, and just get terrorists killed, and valuable equipment (a vehicle and weapons) lost. . . .

Attacks on civilians are still attempts to discourage people from cooperating with the government, or to encourage support for the terrorists. But once you do a lot of this, you are tagged a loser. Such terror only works if you can do it on a large enough scale to control the entire population. But the terrorists are almost entirely Sunni Arabs, and more and more of their terror is being directed against other Sunni Arabs. This isn’t working, with Islamic terrorist becoming more and more unpopular among Sunni Arabs.

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