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Tariq Ali
The key fact of the resistance is that it is decentralized - the classic first stage of guerrilla warfare against an occupying army. Sunday’s downing of a USA Chinook helicopter follows that same pattern. Whether these groups will move to the second stage and establish an Iraqi National Liberation Front remains to be seen.
Arjun Chowdhury
Someone breaks into your shop that’s been in your family for generations, cuts off your electricity and water, destroys your cash register and part of your building, scares the life out of your employees and commandeers your stock at gunpoint. Then he tells you that you need help sorting out your business, and he’ll be glad to provide said help.
Peter Beaumont and Patrick Graham
The occupation of Iraq is failing, writes Peter Beaumont and Patrick Graham. It’s failing because the USA forces have been unable to win the support of Iraqi people, and because without that support they will never have the intelligence needed to resist or counteract the guerilla partisans. No amount of propaganda over who is leading the attacks, designed to convince Iraqis that they should support the occupation, will change that fact.
BBC News
Villagers displayed blackened pieces of wreckage to journalists, and residents in nearby Falluja celebrated in the streets. “This was a new lesson from the resistance, a lesson to the greedy aggressors,” one Iraqi said to reporters. “They’ll never be safe until they get out of our country.”
Thomas Cat?n
The US-led provisional authority in Iraq may be breaking international law by selling state assets, experts have warned, raising the prospect that contracts signed now by foreign investors could be scrapped by a future Iraqi government.
Christopher Scheer
On Monday and Tuesday, amid the suicide bombing carnage that left at least 34 Iraqis dead, three more USA servicemen were killed in combat in Iraq. In the coming days their bodies will be boxed up and sent home for burial. While en route, the coffins will be deliberately shielded from view, lest the media capture on film the dark image of this ultimate sacrifice. It is almost certain, as well, that like all of the hundreds of USA troops killed in this war to date, these dead soldiers will be interred or memorialized without the solemn presence of the President of the United States.
Maureen Dowd
Speaking to reporters this week, Mr. Bush made the bizarre argument that the worse things get in Iraq, the better news it is. “The more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react,” he said. In the Panglossian Potomac, calamities happen for the best. One could almost hear the doubletalk echo of that American officer in Vietnam who said: “It was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.”
Walter Pincus
Washington is spending tens of millions of dollars trying to develop a media channel that will counter al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya, and serve to indoctrinate Arabs into welcoming them with open arms. However, according to independent analysis, most Iraqis see the broadcasts as no more believable than the ‘patriotic’ drivel of the days of Saddam Hussein.
Al Jazeera
Five Iraqis have been killed and several civilians seriously injured by USA troops on a day of resistance attacks that left about 20 occupation soldiers wounded.
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