The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency

When President George W. Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” after the invasion of Iraq, he did not know that 100,000 paramilitary commandoes, terrorists and criminals from Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agencies and the Saddam Fedayeen were waiting to prove him wrong. Spearheading a force allied with Iraqi’s Islamic extremists and Al Qaeda’s global network, Saddam’s loyalists continue to carry out a tribal, political and religious Jihad that has left over 60,000 innocent Iraqis, 3,000 American and 200 British soldiers dead in their wake. The Terrorists of Iraq is a rich historical analysis that includes: · How Saddam Hussein prepared the Iraqi intelligence and special loyalist forces to carryout a multi-year insurgency. · Examines the personalities, organization, weapons, strategy and tactics of the three wings of the insurgency including the former regime loyalist’s Saddam Fedayeen; the Iraqi religious nationalist extremist groups including Islamic Army of Iraq, Ansar al Sunnah, Ansar al Islam; as well as the foreign jihadists of Al Qaeda in Iraq and its umbrella organization the Islamic State of Iraq and the dozens of smaller Iraqi terrorist groups · Explains the dynamics of how the Iraqi Insurgents employ IEDs, assassins and suicide bombers to defy the odds and push the world’s greatest war machine toward the brink of failure. · It describes in vivid detail the history of the insurgency between 2002-2007 from the terrorists perspective · It offers a series of reality based counterinsurgency policy recommendation critical to avert the strategic loss of Iraq. Based on four years of field combat analysis, this authoritative study reveals how Saddam prepared for defeat to recreate the 1920 Revolution and how Osama bin Laden received his greatest gift, an American occupation in historic Arabia. Contains over 34 charts and images detailing insurgent organization and operations.