Spencer Ackerman's Iraq'd blog over at TNR.com has this interesting tidbit:
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| According to Iyad Allawi's intelligence chief, General Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani, the Sunni insurgency consists of 200,000 fighters, of which 40,000 are a hard core. "I think the resistance is bigger than the U.S. military in Iraq," Shahwani told AFP today. |
Bigger than our military presence in the country? And 10x the numbers used by the Bush Administration?
Remember when Rummy called them "dead-enders?" Umm....
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