“We Are Their WMD”
This inside account of Iraqi resistance cells is startlingly similar to similar accounts by journalists of Northern Irish PIRA cells in the 1970s and 1980s. The PIRA originally used a broad hierarchical organization that was easily infiltrated. After it moved to a cell organization, the effectiveness of UK troops declined precipitously and they moved toa defensive, barracks posture. The Iraqi resistance, it seems, have learned from history and gone straight to a cell structure.
US intelligence is way behind understanding that what is emerging in Iraq is a centrally controlled movement, driven as much by nationalism as the mosque, a movement that has left Saddam and the Baath Party behind and already is getting foreign funds for its bid to drive out the US army … “First we watch the Americans to understand their movements. We know from the way they shoot in every direction that they are afraid … The people offer us hiding places when we are in danger. They support us with words and blessings and sometimes they hide our fighters in the boot of their cars to take them to safety.”
Earlier here.