Iraq battling more than 200,000 insurgents

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Wednesday January 05, 2005 01:29 by pc

more in number then the US army in Iraq

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq's insurgency counts more than 200,000 active fighters and sympathisers, the country's national intelligence chief told AFP, in the bleakest assessment to date of the armed revolt waged by Sunni Muslims.

"I think the resistance is bigger than the US military in Iraq. I think the resistance is more than 200,000 people," Iraqi intelligence service director General Mohammad Abdullah Shahwani said in an interview ahead of the January 30 elections...

bleak,bleaker, bleakest...