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I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.
Hamid Karzai / President Of Afghanistan
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Terrorism
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All the way back to Dartmouth, I was part of the insurgency.
Laura Ingraham / Radio Host
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We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.
Michael Scheuer / Blogger
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We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.
David Petraeus / Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
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Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
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The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.
Michael T. Flynn /
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Syria
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Qaeda
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We don't know if our economy, our society, could support the social and the human and the economic cost of an insurgency.
Gonzalo Sanchez De Lozada /
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In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.
James G. Stavridis /
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Clear
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People
People Will Who
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Present
Pose
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Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
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As the insurgency in Iraq started to grow, we realized this is a connected network of individual actors that can move at light speed.
Chris Fussell /
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Individual
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Realized
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Our troops shouldn't be mired in taking land for the Afghan military, providing force protection and fighting a permanent insurgency.
Ro Khanna /
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Mired
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What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.
Stuart Bowen /
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Infrastructure
Insidious
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
Jack Keane /
Defeated
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Al
Relatively
Qaeda
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Sunni
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Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to them.
Jack Keane /
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Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.
Christopher Dodd / Former United States Senator
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Hostile
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Military
Roadside
Safety
Troops
Confront
Ensure
Expense
Particularly
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The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
Walid Jumblatt / Politician
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Helping
Innocent
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Iraq
People
Soldier
Attack
Innocent People
Regime
Soldiers
Syrian
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As many have noted, Donald Trump's presidency is an insurgency. Mr. Trump himself is the quintessential insurgent, doing battle with a disingenuous and entrenched establishment.
Shelby Steele / Author
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Disingenuous
Establishment
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Presidency
Quintessential
Trump
Mr
Donald
Entrenched
Himself
Noted
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The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
Sherrod Brown / United States Senator
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Army
Creating
Exaggerating
Honestly
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American People
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Paints
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Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
Wayne White / Artist
Business
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Penetration
Risk
Almost All
Apparatus
Arab
Increasing
Iraqis
Previous
Sunni
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
Ike Skelton / Former U.s. Representative
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Helping
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Repression
Government Together Country
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Coalition Forces
Forces
Owes
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If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
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Country
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Fuel
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Terrorism
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Adding
Clarify
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Iraqis
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The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.
John Conyers / U.s. Representative
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Experts
Helping
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Iraq
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Terrorist
Troops
Acknowledged
Casey
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You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
James G. Stavridis /
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Protect
Strategic
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Counter
Civil
Communications
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We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.
Sherrod Brown / United States Senator
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Concrete
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Iraq
People
Security Forces
Troops
Defeating
Forces
Handing
Initiatives
Iraqi
Iraqi People
Iraqi Security Forces
Measures
Milestones
Provide
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The word 'insurgency' had connotations that really sent a shiver down the spine of folks in Washington, in the United States - for good reason, because it means this is something much bigger than just a few terrorist cells.
David Petraeus / Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
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Terrorist
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Sent
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The senior director at the NSC for the Middle East is retired Col. Derek Harvey, an Arabic-speaking intelligence officer with a Ph.D. who served as the head of the U.S. military cell examining the insurgency in Iraq in 2003.
Peter Bergen / Broadcaster
East
Examining
Harvey
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Middle
Middle East
Military
Retired
Senior
Director
Cell
Officer
Served
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Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure.
Stanley A. Mcchrystal / Armed Force Officer
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Historical
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Condemned
Dangers
Incremental
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Recognized
Trailing
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I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.
Michael Mullen /
Afghanistan
Gravity
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People
Protect
Thinking
Would Be
Center
Inclusive
Mission
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The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
Ike Skelton / Former U.s. Representative
Combat
Despite
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Introduction
Operations
Security Forces
Allied
Attacks
Battalions
Began
Forces
Highest Level
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The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
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Confronting
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National Security
Prevent
Reduced
Returning
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
Farnaz Fassihi /
Baghdad
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Jihad
Organized
Resisting
Slowly
Immediately
Talks
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One of the most missed components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar al-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations in Iraq. They actually headquartered the Iraq Ba'ath Party and all of their escaped generals in Damascus.
Malcolm Nance /
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Operations
Syria
Al
Escaped
Generals
Missed
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Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
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Dangerous
Defeat
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Political
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Troops
Mired
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There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout.
Richard Engel / Journalist
Egyptian
Fields
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Islamists
Mubarak
Nile
Police
Thick
Battles
Fought
Rural
Soldiers
Villages
Weekly
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I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.
Mike Fitzpatrick / U.s. Representative
Al Qaeda
Insurgency
Iraq
News
Personnel
Special
Terrorist
United States
Abu
Commander
Encouraged
Identified
Led
Operational
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With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Alone
Army
Crime
Grew
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Left
Military
Prison
Rate
Security
Security Forces
Year
Confront
Crime Rate
Forces
Hand
Iraqi
Released
Soldiers
Throughout
Waged
Worse
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I was a part of the planning and attack package intelligence team for the strike against Syria in 1983 - in which we lost a pilot and had another one captured until Jesse Jackson got him out - and numerous other operations against Syria both before the Iraq war and during the insurgency.
Malcolm Nance /
Captured
Insurgency
Iraq War
Operations
Planning
Syria
Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Numerous
Package
Pilot
Strike
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There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency.
Richard Phillips /
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Belief
Civil Disobedience
Disobedience
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Revolt
World War I
Act
Civil
Cultural
Exhibition
Museum
World War
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Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons.
Richard Engel / Journalist
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Angry
Common
Compromise
Easy
Fire
Grievance
Hard
Ingredients
Insurgency
Oxygen
Weapons
Very
Against
State
Combine
Too
Create
Often
Simply
Few
Legitimate
Mix
Recipe
Refuses
Stop
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By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.
Jack Keane /
Defeated
Insurgency
Militia
Al
Clearly
Iranians
Largely
Relatively
Pick
Qaeda
Stabilized
Sunni
Trained
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