Uh. . . How many?
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200,000 INSURGENTS?: According to Iyad Allawi’s intelligence chief, General Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani, the Sunni insurgency consists of 200,000 fighters, of which 40,000 are a hard core. “I think the resistance is bigger than the U.S. military in Iraq,” Shahwani told AFP today. He claims the Baath Party–which Shahwani says has split into three (unspecified) factions–is the motivating factor behind the swelled number, yet pegged the Baathist hard core at 20,000
That’s about 50000 more than the number of Americans. Well, at least some of our Humvees are armored. . .
Good to see that destroying Falluja broke the back of the insurgency.