Daily Archive: April 13, 2004

On the way into the city from the airport, we drove past the wreckage of a convoy that was still smoking off to the side of the road. A few drivers nearby accelerated to...

I noted a year ago that the impending prolonged occupation would inevitably engender a more sophisticated Iraqi resistance. Insurgents fighting the U.S.-led occupation force have sharply increased the sophistication, coordination and aggressiveness of their...

Again and again, administration officials have insisted that some particular evildoer is causing all our problems. Last July they confidently predicted an end to the insurgency after Saddam’s sons were killed. In December, they...

The local rumor mill, and in some cases Arabic-language satellite television, feed anti-American sentiment with reports of wanton destruction of mosques and battlefield atrocities committed by Americans. But officers complain that there is no...