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This attack shows the desperation
of al- Qaeda in Iraq.
Aug 16, 2008 -Lt. Col. John Digiambattista
Opperations Officer for 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
First, while Obama is playing armchair general, second-guessing
why there is an Taliban offensive in Afghanistan, the reality is
that this is a result of the U.S. success in Iraq. Al-Qaida forces
fleeing Iraq have been redeployed inside Afghanistan staging a last
desperate
stand in its own back yard.
July 24, 2008 - Charles R. Smith Newsmax Wingnut
While they still can conduct the occasional bombing, and they desperately
seek a high value media event, they essentially now pray (sic)
on the helpless and engage in futile attacks against the Iraqi Security
Forces.
June 16, 2008 - Marine Major General John Kelly
As sectarian violence has plummeted and a semblance of normality
has returned to Iraq, the use of women bombers reflects the jihadis'
desperation as much as their lethal determination.
June 16, 2008 - Aparisim "Bobby" Ghosh
Time Magazine's World Editor
Then, in an act of desperation,
al Qaida destroyed the Golden Mosque in Samarra, which touched off
horrendous sectarian violence.
June 16, 2008 - John F. Brinson
Chairman of the Lehigh Valley Tax Limitation Committee
The killings actually may be an act of desperation
on the part of the insurgents, which proved to be the case when
something similar happened in Anbar province.
June 11, 2008 - An unidentified American Special
Forces soldier
The enemies of Iraq and America now cling desperately
to their last bastions, while the political process builds momentum.
June 10, 2008 - Kimberly Kagan and Fredrick W. Kagan
Al-Qaida and insurgents are now desperate
and want to ensure that their cause (and) organization stays alive,"
June 5, 2008 Farhana Ali RAND Corp. Terrorism Expert
Because of al Qaeda's setbacks the group has become desperate,
increasingly turning to female suicide bombers to stage attacks.
May 10, 2008 -Unnamed U.S. military officials
"Iraq still faces a very tough fight," U.S. military
spokesman Major General Kevin Bergner said.
The attacks are nothing but muscle flexing by insurgents desperate
to reclaim territory.
April 16, 2008 - A leader of the Sons of Iraq in
Diyala, Abu Mustafa
This is an act of desperation
and a leading example of how the extremists target innocent Iraqis.
April 14, 2008 - Allen Batschelet, chief of staff
for the 4th Infantry Division
Al-Qaida, once a very influential force in the Sunni Triangle,
has been reduced to sending mentally ill female suicide bombers
to do their fighting. This is an indication that this enemy is desperate
and is nearly eradicated.
April 10, 2008 - Dennis Nowicki Jr., a National Guardsman
Acts of desperation
intended to inflict fear into the local population are just another
example of an enemy on the run.
April 8, 2008 - Maj. Peggy Kageleiry
This barbaric attack continues to show the desperate
and horrific measures these individuals will stoop in order to hurt
the innocent Iraqi people
April 4, 2008 - Captain Stephen Bomar
These new desperation
tactics, apparently to try and increase the number of attacks dramatically,
failed.
April 4, 2008 - Yet another nameless Startegy Page
drone
This incident is just another example of the desperation
AQI is showing.
Mar 27, 2008 - Maj. Dan Meyers
This enemy is desperate.
They know they are losing. They are not likely to go out easy.
Mar 24, 2008 - Michael Yon - Author, "independent
reporter" and some guy with a website
Insurgents will continue to use radical methods as they become
more desperate.
Mar 23, 2008 - Capt. Stephen Bomar
We are fighting a defeated and desperate
enemy. They recruit disabled people to carry suicide bombs into
markets to blow up civilians, and that's horrific. But it shows
their desperation.
Mar 18, 2008 - Marine Corps Col. Christopher "Caveman''
Holzworth
We hear some about suicide bombings on the news, but I think they
(terrorists) are desperate
and trying to make big splashes.
Mar 18, 2008 - Capt. Jeremy Haugh
A recent increase in the use of suicide vests is a sign that Iraqi
insurgents, who are finding it increasingly difficult to sneak car
bombs past stepped-up U.S. and Iraqi security checkpoints, patrols
and blast walls, are growing desperate.
Mar 11, 2008 - Unnamed U.S. commanders
It has become desperate
times for the insurgents in the al Anbar province.
Mar 3, 2008 - Sgt. Nathaniel C. LeBlanc
Underscoring the significance of the cease-fire extension
was the response it provoked: a desperate
mortar bombardment of the Green Zone in Baghdad, reportedly perpetrated
by breakaway Shiite factions intent on prolonging civil discord
in hope of enhancing their political position.
Mar 2, 2008 - Uncredited Editorial - Worcester Telegram
& Gazette
The third point, after the defeat that the terrorist groups witnessed
and as a sign of desperation
for them, some of those terrorists resorted to some new methods
and techniques and those methods have been characterized by us and
the Multi-National Forces and we know they…all those things.
Feb 25, 2008 - Maj. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner
A new desperate
attempt to undermine Iraqi unity and trigger sectarian strife.
Feb 25, 2008 - Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi
Al-Qaeda’s hold on the population continues to grow weaker
every day, and this is the latest example of their desperate
and brutal efforts to seek retribution against Iraqis who attempt
to keep AQI out of their towns and villages.
Feb 22, 2008 - Maj. Mike Garcia
I think you’ll see some attacks of desperation
in reprisal for his decision.
Feb 22, 2008 - Warrant Officer 1 Favian McGraw
Recently, there has been an uptick in attacks on Americans and
civilians. Some of this is attributed to a desperate
al-Qaeda who have been attempting to punish the Sunnis who joined
"The Awakening" movements in the provinces. Other attacks
are attributed to rogue Shia militias who seem to have increased
their activity in recent weeks.
Feb 16, 2008 - Rick "get
a brain" Moran - Some guy with a website
Is it just me, or is threatening Israel always the last act of
desperation
from the enemies of the United States in the Muslim world?
The last desperate
act of losers in the Arab world is always to focus attention away
from the conflict at hand and towards Israel.
Feb 14, 2008 - Rusty Shackleford - Some guy with
a website
The diary, which belonged to an al Qaeda "emir" who commanded
five terrorist battalions, revealed the emir's desperation
regarding the damage being inflicted on his forces by ours
Feb 13, 2008 - W. Thomas Smith Jr. a former U.S.
Marine rifle-squad leader, parachutist, and shipboard counterterrorism
instructor
The U.S. military's strict rules of engagement underscore a sharp
contrast between its conduct and the enemy's, as al Qaeda grows
more desperate
to inflict carnage in Iraq.
snip
A senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, who asked not to be named,
said al Qaeda has stepped up the use of suicide-vest bombings in
recent weeks in a desperate
attempt to kill more Iraqis and defeat the surge.
Feb 12, 2008 - Rowan Scarborough
The release of this and other documents in recent days highlight
the organization's state of disarray and desperation.
Feb 11, 2008 - Rear Adm. Gregory Smith
We do think these acts are desperate,
with the improved security situation in Baghdad it is harder for
al Qaeda to get in car bombs.
Feb 8, 2008 - Air Force Col. Donald J. Bacon
Chief of special operations and intelligence information
Iraq’s Strategic Communications Division.
That is a disturbing trend that obviously shows the desperation
AlQaeda is going through to use whatever means possible to achieve
its ends, it knows no bounds.
Feb 7, 2008 - Rear Adm. Gregory Smith
There have actually been several instances in recent years where
al Qaeda in Iraq has used children and the mentally disabled in
attacks, revealing a bit of desperation
on al Qaeda's part.
Feb 7, 2008 - CBN News Terror Analyst Erick Stakelbeck
It obviously shows the desperation
of al-Qaida, they are dying in Iraq.
Feb 7, 2008 - Iraqi defence ministry spokesman Mohammed
al-Askari
The videos are a sign of desperation
by Al-Qaeda.
Feb 6, 2008 - Iraqi defence ministry spokesman Mohammed
al-Askari
With the defeat of the al-Qaida in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan,
bin Laden may become desperate
to launch attacks outside of the region.
Feb 6, 2008 - Mike McConnel, chief of the U.S. Intelligence
Service
War On Terror: Al-Qaida in Iraq is desperate.
Not only is it resorting to using women for suicide bombings, it's
even tricking mentally disabled women to stage them.
Feb 5, 2008 - Uncredited Investor's Business Daily
editorial
The series of Al Qaeda against awakening councils by Al Qaeda is
a desperate
response from Al Qaeda to the engagement of awakening councils into
security forces.
Feb 5, 2008 - Iraqi Interior Minister
The attacks signaled a new desperation
as concrete blast barriers and other security measures have stanched
the group's ability to stage deadly car bombings and similar attacks.
Feb 3, 2008 - The US military
The continued use by al-Qaida of Iraq's most innocent _ its children,
women and even the mentally challenged _ shows the broken ideology,
the desperation
and the depths al-Qaida will go in this attempt to destroy the bright
future of Iraq.
Feb 3, 2008 - Rear Adm. Gregory Smith
As they grow more desperate,
they resort to more and more heinous means to inflict death and
destruction.
Feb 3, 2008 - uncredited editorital The Post and
Courier
This behaviour can be only seen as an act of desperation.
Feb 3, 2008 - Iraiq Security Analyst Hussein Sabah
al-Dulaimi
Today's attacks also tell us that al Qaeda in Iraq is getting very
desperate
in seeking the high-casualty attacks that they so value.
Feb 2, 2008 -Confederate Yankee - Some Guy With a
Website
Al-Qaeda is desperate.
This is why they attack innocent people like this.
So what is left to the enemy now is making improvised explosive
devices out of Pepsi-Cola cans and using ignorant people and deceiving
them. This is a cheap and desperate
way.
Feb 2, 2008 - General Abud Qanbar Hashim,
Iraqi chief of Baghdad Operations Command,
al-Qaeda is turning to women out of desperation.
Feb 2, 2008 - The US military in Baghdad
A desperate
act of terrorism
It's a sign of desperation
by terrorists who are losing their heinous war to prevent a democratic
Iraq rising from the ashes of Saddam Hussein's tyranny.
Feb 2, 2008 - The Daily Telegraph
The coordinated blasts appeared to reinforce U.S. claims that al-Qaeda
in Iraq may be increasingly desperate
and running short of able-bodied men willing or available for such
missions.
Feb 2, 2008 - The Associated Press
Involving women in fighting violates religious taboos in Iraq,
but the U.S. military has warned that al-Qaida in Iraq is recruiting
women and youths to stage suicide attacks as the insurgents become
increasingly desperate
to thwart stepped-up security measures.
Feb 1, 2008 - Kim Gamel Associated Press
This was a cowardly and desperate
act executed by terrorists bent on derailing reconciliation efforts
and progress … as a result of cooperation and resolve on the
part of local Iraqi leaders and citizens.
Jan 31, 2008 - Col. Todd B. McCaffrey
There are many signs that Iraq's enemies are becoming increasingly
desperate
and they are becoming increasingly appalling as well.
Jan 28, 2008 - Rear Admiral Gregory Smith
AQI are on their heels right now, I think. I see these attacks
as acts of desperation
to break the will of the people to reject them.
Jan 17, 2008 - Lt. Col. Ricardo Love
They've had to go out and find different ways to compensate,"
Baker said. "I think it's an act of desperation.
To me, it's a desperate
act to compensate and I think it will backfire.
Jan 16, 2008 - Col. Donald Bacon, a U.S. military
spokesman in Baghdad
Involving women in fighting violates religious taboos in Iraq,
and a growing number of female suicide attacks could indicate insurgents
are becoming increasingly desperate.
Jan 16, 2008 - Christopher Chester - The Associated
Press
Lastly, many military experts agree that Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)
has been tactically defeated and is desperately
trying to reorganize, reconstitute and regenerate its forces.
Jan 14, 2008 - Lieutenant Colonel (ret) Roger D.
Carstens
Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
Al Qaeda leaders operating in and around the northern city of Mosul
are reported to be discouraged and desperate
for money, this, explains a recent spate of regional kidnappings
for ransom and other criminal acts to obtain quick cash.
snip
Terrorist attacks are down overall across Iraq but "spectacular"
events committed in the northern provinces, such as suicide attacks
and beheadings, appear to be increasing. Such acts demonstrate al
Qaeda in Iraq's increasing desperation.
snip
Recent terrorist attacks on Iraqi concerned citizens groups indicate
al Qaeda in Iraq's increasing desperation.
Jan 10, 2008 - Army Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling,
Commander of Multinational Division North
The interrogations indicate desperation
among the al Qaeda and Sunni Arab leadership.
Jan 05, 2008 - Yet another nameless Startegy Page
drone
There's a sense that this is an act of desperation.
Jan 05, 2008 - Col. Donald Bacon, a U.S. military
spokesman in Baghdad
It goes against religious taboos in Iraq to involve women in fighting,
but three recent suicide bombings carried out by women could indicate
insurgents are growing increasingly desperate.
snip
Although use of women can be a sign of desperation,
female suicide bombers also help extremist groups attract male recruits.
Militants exploit the image of desperate women fighting because
there aren't enough brave men, taunting would-be male suicide bombers
into action, Hafiz said.
Jan 05, 2008 - Diaa Hadid - Associate Press Reporter
That these are “acts of desperation”
does not render them ineffective.
Jan 02, 2008 - James Joyner - Some guy with a website
As the enemy continues to feel increasing pressure from all sides,
to include a more viable Iraqi security force, this senseless attack
today just demonstrates the enemy's desperation
as Iraq and its citizens are making significant strides for peace.
Dec.27, 2007 - Lt. Col. Peter Wilhelm, 1st Battalion,
327th Regiment commander
I also think it's an act of desperation
by the enemy. He -- the enemy is a ruthless, absolute -- with no
regard for human rights or the loss of life of innocent civilians.
So it's an act of desperation
by them, I believe.
Dec.20, 2007 - Commander, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry
Division, Col. Paul Funk
30 extremists have been terrorizing the population in the area
but now have been forced out of their sanctuaries, we are taking
that area away now, and they are desperate.
Dec.19, 2007 - Colonel Tom James
al-Baghdadi's message reflects the desperation
of militants.
Dec. 14, 2007 - Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman
Muhammad al-Askari
A desperate
attempt to attract attention away from the clear successes the government
has had in cutting violence elsewhere.
Dec. 13, 2007 - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
Any criminal act they commit would only be a desperate
attempt to draw attention away from the clear successes and to break
through the siege imposed on the defeated groups.
Dec. 12, 2007 - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
That is where al Qaeda in desperation
is trying to find a location to consolidate their weapons and develop
their plans.
Dec. 9, 2007 - Colonel Tom James
What we have seen is some instances of different types of attacks,
the use of suicide vests and desperate
attacks against concerned local citizens.
Dec. 8, 2007 - Major-General Mark Hertling
This is the context needed to best understand the message most
recently attributed to one “Abu Omar al-Baghdadi,” which,
as will be shown, is a message of desperation
from a group on the run and finding former Iraqi allies now hunting
them seemingly at every turn.
The al-Qaeda-Scripted Message: Signs of Desperation
Dec . 5, 2007 - ThreatsWatch.Org
The soldiers feel it, they're excited ... one roadside bomb is
to me an act of desperation.
Dec . 5, 2007 - Col. Jon S. Lehr
The jihadists are getting quite desperate
over seeing their sphere of operations shrink in Iraq.
snip
Therefore, it suggests the jihadists not only are on the defensive,
but also are getting quite desperate
over seeing their sphere of operations shrink in Iraq.
Dec . 2, 2007 - Stratford international affairs,
public policy and security experts
As noted at Threatswatch, al Qaeda in Iraq's media wing is desperate
to produce propaganda for multiple reasons.
Nov. 28, 2007 - Bill Roggio
There might be an uptick in violence coming as a result of al Qaeda's
desperation.
Nov. 26, 2007 - General David Petraeus
There are signs of progress though the country remains mired in
corruption and U.S. commanders anticipate increased violence from
a desperate
al Qaeda.
Nov. 26, 2007 - Senator John McCain
Resourceful, desperate
militants turning to household materials to make explosives
Nov 25, 2007 - Stars and Stripes headline
With our operational successes on the battlefield in Iraq comes
desperation
from al-Qaida.
snip
This faulty understanding of our culture is likely to cause al-Qaida,
in desperation
of its setbacks recently, to try to strike the United States again.
snip
The desperation
of the terrorist networks comes from our military’s success
on the battlefield as well as the successes of the local police
forces, the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency as well as our
allies in keeping the terrorists on the defensive.
snip
The enemy is desperate.
Nov 15, 2007 - Frank X. Ryan
The daytime attack is proof of al-Qaeda's desperation.
Nov 12, 2007 - Lt. Col. Jack Marr 1-15th Inf. Regt.
Commander
By damaging the homes of innocent civilians, they are continuing
to lose their ground and have become desperate.
Through their desperate
attempts, they will continue to lose support of the civilian population
who are fed up with violence.
Nov 6, 2007 - Maj. Randall Baucom,spokesman for the
1st BCT, 1st Cav. Div
New Bin Laden Audiotape: Desperation
Time
Oct 29, 2007 - Erick Stakelbeck, CBN News Terrorism
Analyst
Al Qaeda is desperate,
and they need a new strategy. The old one, of making terror attacks
on Shia Arabs, with the objective being a civil war the Sunni Arabs
would win, has been a failure.
Oct 24, 2007 - The Strategy Page
Insurgent leaders have been forced to resort to desperate
tactics like paying children to do their attacks for them.
Oct 20, 2007 - Major Ike Sallee
It's another barbaric tactic and it's a sign that they're desperate.
Oct 14, 2007 - Lieutenant-Colonel Mike Donnelly
US military spokesman in northern Iraq
This cowardly act was a sign of desperation
by terrorists, in an attempt to disrupt security forces and Concerned
Local Citizens who have joined together to combat terrorism throughout
Salah ad Din and other areas of northern Iraq.
Oct 10, 2007 - Col. Bryan Owens,
Commander, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.
Al Qaeda has lost half its leadership over the Summer, and American
intelligence collectors have amassed a huge number of desperate
messages from al Qaeda leaders and operatives. Terror attacks are
down by more than half because al Qaeda keeps getting run out of
their refuges, and, in desperation,
keeps asking each other for help.
snip
This is what the psychologists predicted as the number of desperate
messages grew.
snip
But that initial encounter with desperate
terrorists, determined to take an infidel with him, can be unnerving,
and dangerous.
Oct 3, 2007 - The Strategy Page
The key points in this hand-written note include, he's surrounded,
communications have been cut and he's desperate
for help.
Sept 22, 2007 - Brigadier General Joseph Anderson
Al-Qaida has pushed harder lately but it's a sign of desperation,
the enemy now is more lethal and more aggressive than I've ever
seen him be because he knows he's on the run - and potentially on
the ropes.
Sept 21, 2007 - Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch
In fact, they've become so desperate
that they've returned to using "Abu Omar al-Baghdadi"
in their audio tapes. Two months ago, "Baghdadi" got exposed
as an actor, a front to have Iraqis believe that AQI was a native
Iraqi organization. The fact that they're still relying on this
threadbare lie shows how desperate
AQI has become, and how little opportunity they've had to adapt
since the surge hit top speed.
Sept 17, 2007 - Captain Ed - Some Guy With a Website
Everything that has gone wrong stems from the desperate
efforts of various forces, both indigenous and imported, to prevent
those seeds from taking root.
Sept 11, 2007 - Neo-con scumbag Norman Podhoretz
But the takfiri movement that once nearly controlled the province
by blending in with its people has lost almost all popular support
and has been driven to desperate
measures to maintain a precarious foothold.
snip
AQI--and therefore the larger al Qaeda movement--has suffered a
stunning defeat in Iraq over the past six months. It has lost all
of its urban strongholds and is engaged in a desperate
attempt to reestablish a foothold even in the countryside.
Sept 04, 2007 - Military Historian Frederick W. Kagan
A convenient side-effect of the increased number of U.S. combat
operations has been to make al-Qaida more desperate
for recruits. So the extremists resort to violent means to coerce
people to join them, which has pushed more local Iraqis to the American
side.
Sept 04, 2007 - Brig. Gen. Jim Huggins
Due to the local populace’s recent successes in regard to
reconciliation efforts that are uniting the people here against
insurgents and extremists, the attack proves that Al Qaeda is becoming
desperate.
Sept 03, 2007 - Lt. Col. Peter Andrysiak
Well, first of all, I'd say that it shows some desperation
on their part, because what they're trying to do is create a sensational
event.
Aug 30, 2007 - Maj. Gen. Sherlock
Even the insurgents' mosque-burning and pilgrim-shooting
strategy can be seen as moves of desperation.
Aug 24, 2007 - American Taliban Mullah Dinesh D'Souza
Recently, the terrorists groups they were desperate
and due to the defeat that they're facing and based on the cooperation
between the security forces and the Iraqis so they went to these
places and they started to target these areas.
Aug 19, 2007 - Brigadier general Qassim Atta,
Iraqi spokesman for Fardh al-Qanoon
This is much less about al-Qaida overstepping than about them (Sunnis)
realizing that they've lost as a result, Sunni groups are now desperately
trying to cut deals with us.
Aug 16, 2007 - Lt. Col. Douglas Ollivant
This is an act of desperation
by a group of maniacs who continue to offer only death, destruction
and violence to the innocent citizens of Iraq.
Aug 16, 2007 - Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon
The bombings were a sign of al Qaeda's frustration, desperation
and fear.
Aug 15, 2007 - Ralph "Dude, where's my civil
war" Peters
The increasingly sophisticated attacks are desperation
on the insurgents' part after troops became too successful at finding
roadside bombs and other explosives.
Aug 15, 2007 - Lt. Col. Michael Donnelly
This is a desperate
act to gain international attention from the media.
Aug 15, 2007 - US army spokesman, Maj. Gen. Benjamin
Mixon
This is a desperate
act on behalf of the enemy to gain media attention.
Aug 15, 2007 - US army spokesman, Maj. Gen. Benjamin
Mixon
As Al Qaeda is now being chased out of regions it once held without
serious challenge, their tactics are tinged with desperation.
Aug 7, 2007 - Former Special Forces soldier current
Weekly Standard & National Review contributor
That is why you will see an increase in desperation
attacks.
Aug 7, 2007 - Lance Cpl. Charles Williams
The terrorists have been living on hope and desperation
for over a year.
In a desperate
attempt to regain the edge, the terrorists have been using more
violence against tribal leadership.
Aug 1, 2007 - Unnamed Strategy Page Drone
The jihadists are now fighting a desperate
war against the new stick of American military power and carrot
of American-inspired political reform.
That's the only way they got power in the first place and now desperately
count on keeping it.
July 26, 2007 - Victor Davis Hanson
What we see is this violent and desperate
enemy, as it will do these singular and very spectacular acts of
violence in order to derail or to take the focus off of the good
things that are happening.
July 23, 2007 - U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert
H. Holmes
Deputy director of operations for U.S. Central Command
This heinous crime” confirms that the terrorists are the
enemies of all Iraqis and showed that the attackers are desperate
to break the noose that is closing in upon them.
July 08, 2007 - Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki
Our increased aerial presence over the numerous mahallas (neighborhoods)
that are being cleared in Operation Fardh al Qanoon has led to desperate
acts by (the enemy).
July 1, 2007 - Army Capt. Ryan Sullivan,
Iraqi Security Forces acted swiftly and decisively in response
to this desperate
act of terrorism.
Terrorists are making desperate
attempts to cripple the growth process of the citizens and businesses
of Mosul.
June 25, 2007 - Col. Stephen Twitty,
Commander, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division
Many analysts feel Force Protection will see tougher competition
for future contracts in the mine-resistant vehicle space. But as
the war in Iraq lingers and as insurgents grow more desperate
in their attacks, investors will return to Force Protection.
June 25, 2007 - James Altucher is president of Stockpickr
LLC
And these tactics of desperation,
the setting off bombs, this sort of thing, killing innocent people
---- yes, they're attacking our folks but increasingly ineffectively
in the Marine area right now ---- it is just the normal challenge
of war that our country has been through before when it fought tyranny.
June 25, 2007 - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
Commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command
Our increased aerial presence over the numerous muhallas (neighborhoods)
that are being cleared in Operation Fardh al Qanoon has led to desperate
acts by (the enemy).
June 20, 2007 - Capt. Ryan Sullivan,
I believe the Sunni insurgency in Iraq has collapsed, and all the
casualty tallies that the insurgents are desperately
trying to ratchet-up won't convince me otherwise.
June 19, 2007 - NY Sun Columnist Nibras Kazimi
The fight for security in Baghdad is likely to get harder over
the coming months as we engage an increasingly desperate
enemy.
June 15, 2007 -Deputy Secretary of State John D.
Negroponte
The attack was a desperate
attempt by terrorists and carried out after the success of the crackdown
in Baghdad and other areas.
snip
Those who commit such crimes are disillusioned, as their attempts
to divide Iraq have failed, and hence they are carrying out such
desperate
attacks.
June 14, 2007 - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
It is an act of desperation
by an increasingly beleaguered enemy seeking to obstruct the peaceful
political and economic development of a democratic Iraq.
June 14, 2007 - Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker and Gen.
David H. Petraeus
These attacks were directed against Iraqi people and their infrastructure,
and clearly show the desperate
nature of these attackers intent on disrupting the Iraqi economy
and intimidating innocent civilians.
June 12, 2007 - Official Iraqi government statement
Insurgents particularly supported by Iran, see us winning, and
they're doing desperate
things.
snip
Part of that is because of the enemy desperately
striking out.
June 7, 2007 - Senator Joe Lieberman (SOB-CT)
In Fallujah, al Qaeda is killing Sunnis again. It would appear
that al Qaeda is desperately
trying to reassert itself. Yesterday, a car bomb killed some 15
people and wounded another 25, many of them women and children.
This is one of the reasons why the tribes of Anbar are joining forces
to fight al Qaeda.
June 6, 2007 - Brigadier General Kevin Bergner,
Spokesman, multinational force Iraq
It's desperation
on the part of local members of al-Qaida in Iraq, as it builds strongholds
elsewhere in the country, especially northeast of Baghdad in Diyala
province.
June 1, 2007 - An unamed Iraqi Police Officer
The enemy we face shows no such restraint, nor battlefield honor,
and any coordinated offensive against coalition troops would be
nothing more than a desperate
act to turn the tide of public perception, once and for all, against
a continued U.S. presence, no matter what the consequences might
be for Iraq or its citizens. That desperate
act would be short-lived and futile, ending much as the Tet offensive
did in Vietnam: a military failure.
May 31, 2007 - The New Media Journal Greg Reeson
That is why al Qaeda fighters from across the Muslim world are
streaming into Iraq and fighting desperately
to retain and expand their positions there.
May 22, 2007 - Military historian Frederick W. Kagan
This was a total team effort on the part of the Iraqi Security
Forces and emergency responders This Iraqi team showed the people
of Mosul that they are resolute in their efforts to defeat this
very cowardly, desperate
enemy while protecting innocent civilians.
May 20, 2007 - U.S. Army Col. Stephen Twitty,
Commander of 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division
There is much work to be done, both by Iraqis and by Coalition
forces, and much fighting lay ahead, particularly in the coming
bloody house-to-house street fighting against increasingly desperate
al-Qaeda terrorists who have lost Anbar and see the cordon beginning
to encircle their new Diyala powerbase.
May 18, 2007 - Steve Schipper managing editor for
ThreatsWatch.org
This is desperation
on their part.
May 17, 2007 - Iraq's foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari
“These attacks demonstrate the desperation
of these terrorists,” said Twitty. “They have no concern
for the good Iraqi people, who now must suffer from damaged hospitals,
bridges and homes.”
May 16, 2007 - U.S. Army Col. Stephen Twitty,
Commander of 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division
It also reflects a desperate
attempt to regain a foothold in Anbar and other Sunni areas that
have turned against terrorism.
April 28, 2007 - military historian Frederick W.
Kagan
Three of Baghdad's 13 bridges over the Tigris river have been targeted
by large explosions in the past month the attacks are desperate
acts by insurgents who are under pressure from the two-month old
Baghdad security operation.
April 25, 2007 - Unnamed Iraqi and U.S. Commanders
The attacks are desperate
acts.
April 19, 2007 - Iraq's ambassador to the U.S. Samir
Shakir Al-Sumaydi
The carnage in Baghdad shows the desperation
of the terrorists to stop the security plan.
April 19, 2007 - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari
The day of carnage showed how desperate
insurgents are to undermine the fledgeling democracy.
April 18, 2007 - Uk Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett
Al-Qa'ida in turn is attacking its former allies in an increasingly
desperate
way. Moqtada al-Sadr is on the skids, losing military supporters
and political leverage within the Government.
April 13, 2007 - former Austraillian head of Foreign
Affairs Michael Costello
The attack - inside Baghdad's most secure area - was no real surprise
and showed the terrorists were desperate
to derail the ongoing security surge.
April 12, 2007 - Austraillian Prime Minister John
Howard
The poison gas attacks and the use of children as
weapons belie a high level of desperation
within the Jihadist ranks.
April 2, 2007 - Douglas Hanson
former Chief of Staff in the Iraqi Ministry of Science and Technology
Attacks by Sunnis against members of their own community,
including the first use of poison gas in Iraq since Saddam Hussein
killed thousands of Kurds in Halabja in 1988, showed an incredible
level of desperation.
April 2, 2007 - Senior Counter-insurgency Adviser
to General David Petraeus
David Kilcullen
Like backing a rat into a corner, increasing pressure
on the extremists by limiting their available resources and places
to hide leads to desperate
changes in tactics.
March 29, 2007 - U.S. military spokesman Rear Adm.
Mark Fox
An act of cowardice and only demonstrates to the world how desperate
this enemy is.
March 28, 2007 - Brigadier General Mick Bednarek
The attack showed increasing desperation
by al Qaeda in Iraq.
March 24, 2007 - Tariq al-Dulaimi senior security
official in Ramadi
If, as Greg Richards notes, the battle in Iraq is truly swinging
in our favor, then it is likely that more attacks with WMD will
occur showing just how desperate
enemy has become.
March 19, 2007 - Douglas Hanson
former Chief of Staff in the Iraqi Ministry of Science and Technology
We see the Sunni insurgency trying to desperately
gain control of Diyala, because it helps in their effort to control
Baghdad and to prevent the government of Iraq from succeeding
March 12, 2007 - Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon
The terrorists are desperate.
March 8, 2007 - Captain Kevin Calvey, Army National
Guard
The recent kidnapping and murder... is a clear sign
to Iraq that the insurgents are desperate,
under a great deal of pressure, and are resorting to heinous acts
to further their cause.
March 5, 2007 - US military officer Major General
Benjamin Mixon
So desperate
were the Sunni terrorists in the Baghdad suburb of Tarmiya, that
they attacked an American outpost in the town.
March 5, 2007 - James Dunnigan - Renowned military
analyst and author
Desperate
Insurgents Detonate Chemical Bomb
The use of a chemical bomb in Iraq is a new escalation for the
Sunni insurgency, and one that may indicate a certain level of desperation
for those who would use a weapon that comes with such a stigma.
Since then, al Qaeda and its increasingly fewer affiliate Islamists
has more often been the hunted than the hunter, and the use of a
chemical bomb today hints at the level of desperation
they have now reached.
While the western media is almost certain to interpret the attack
as an increase in the level of violence to counter the "surge"
of American and Iraqi troops and implementation of the the Petraeus
plan designed to crush the remaining al Qaeda strongholds, it is
doubtful they will recognize, much less publicize, the level of
desperation
that the Sunni Islamists militants in Iraq have reached to use a
weapon that can only diminish their collapsing support.
The Sunni Islamists in Iraq are becoming ever more desperate.
February 23, 2007 - Confederate Yankee - Some Guy
With a Website
This action reflects the desperation
of the terrorists who are trying to destroy the Iraqis’ confidence
in their government’s ablity to protect them.
February 23, 2007 - U.S. Army spokesman Lt. Col.
Christopher Garver
The bombings underscore the increasing desperation
felt by criminals and will only serve to galvanize Iraqi forces
and their coalition partners.
February 19, 2007 - U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad
desperate
acts by terrorists and criminals who sense they are being squeezed.
February 19, 2007 - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
The bombings in Baghdad underscore the increasing desperation
felt by criminals who seek to undermine the peace and stability
that the Government and people of Iraq are working so hard to build.
February 18, 2007 - U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad
A desperate
handful of terrorists and pro-Saddam allies... who committed a shameful
crime against the innocent university students
January 16, 2007 - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
Saddamists and Takfiris are banking on instability in a desperate
attempt to turn back history.
December 22, 2006 - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
ignore the desperate
attempts of Sunni Arab insurgent group to keep you from class.
December 6, 2006 - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
al Qaeda in Iraq is trying desperately
to bring down the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
November 28, 2006 - President Bush
The insurgents in Iraq are trying to foment sectarian violence
and produce as much chaos as possible, out of their desperation
in seeing the Iraqi government and military standing up.
November 8, 2006 - Brigadier General Jack B Egginton
Deputy Director of Operations, US Central Command
The attacks showed that the insurgents are becoming desperate
because of progress being made under the security plan.
October 16, 2006 - Major General Torhan Yussef, Kirkuk's
police chief
Desperate
acts like suicide bomb attacks will not stop the Iraqi Police from
protecting their communities.
October 16, 2006 - Lt. Col. Scott Shuster, CO, 3rd
Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment
The terrorists who carried out this attack are the enemies of the
Iraqi people, desperate
to derail the progress Iraq is making toward freedom and prosperity.
October 7, 2006 - US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad
Military veterans see desperation
in Baghdad bombs
October 6, 2006 - Washington Times headline
This is a decisive blow to al Qaeda, which has been desperately
trying to fight off an Iraqi government that is getting stronger
by the week.
October 1, 2006 -Harold C. Hutchison
Those insurgents may be getting desperate,
the rash of violence may be a reaction to the threat the military
is posing.
September 1, 2006 -Colonel Thomas Vail
The Battalion’s successes over the last several
days are really the result of the anti-Iraqi forces conducting attacks
out of desperation.
September 1, 2006 - Lt. Col. Norm Cooling
commanding officer of 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment.
The latest violence was a desperate
attempt by terrorists who are being pushed into a corner by the
new security crackdown.
August 14, 2006 -Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman
Mohammed Askari
We must continue to support Iraq's first-ever democratically elected
government, even as the terrorists desperately
try to undermine it.
August 5, 2006 - RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman
In spite of the anti-war left's continued use of the supposed failure
in Iraq as an election-year political issue, the decreasing frequency
of effective insurgent attacks, combined with the increasing desperation
of their methods, sends the inarguable signal that a turning point
has been reached in that country.
July 5, 2006 - Jeff Emanuel
But these are ultimately not acts of confidence, but of desperation.
June 23, 2006 - Victor Davis Hanson
In spite of the anti-war crowd's fervent attempt to make this murder
of American soldiers into an election-year political issue, the
decreasing frequency of effective insurgent attacks, combined with
the increasing desperation
of their methods, sends the inarguable signal that a turning point
in Iraq has been reached.
June 22, 2006 - Jeff Emanuel
Just as al Zarqawi's memos and communications indicated that the
tone inside al Qaeda is getting desperate
in the face of imminent defeat, so do the derisive reaction from
the left to every bit of good news out of Iraq prove that liberals
are becoming similarly desperate.
snip
Kerry and Murtha's strategically disastrous demands that America
cut and run from the terrorist insurgency at a time when it is desperately
attempting to rally its dwindling forces, belie something that is
hardly less than a dark alliance between the terrorists and the
American left.
June 21, 2006 - Chris Adamo
Despite the immediate attempts of the anti-war Left to make this
murder of American soldiers into an election-year political issue,
the gradually stabilizing situation on the ground—especially
evidenced by the decreasing frequency of effective insurgent attacks,
combined with the increasing desperation
of their methods—almost inarguably proves that a turning point
in Iraq has been reached.
June 20, 2006 - Jeff Emanuel
At the very moment that documents captured from the Zarqawi death
site indicate that Al Qaeda feels it is losing its war against the
Iraqi future and has become so desperate
that its only hope to prevail is by embroiling the U.S. in war with
Iran;
June 19, 2006 - Peter Collier and David Horowitz
Rather than proving they are still potent after the death of Zarqawi,
this was their last act of desperation
and destruction.
June 14, 2006 - Unamed "senior security officials"
If anything, it could even lead to a brief surge in attacks, as
Zarquawi's followers desperately
try to prove that they are not deterred by his death.
June 9, 2006 - Some Guy With a Website - Jay Tea
The current escalation in violence is because of the desperation
of insurgents and terrorists as the noose is being being tightened
around them.
June 5, 2006 - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari
Not only is
progress being made in Iraq but there's hard evidence that the terrorists
are desperate.
snip
The al-Qaeda document discovered by U.S. forces in Iraq shows that
al Qaeda in Iraq is desperate
and lacks public support.
May 23, 2006 - Cliff Kincaid and Roger Aronoff -
Accuracy in Media
Far from optimistic, the documents captured in an April 16th raid
reveal frustration and desperation,
as the terrorists acknowledge the superior position of American
and free Iraqi forces and their ability to quickly adapt to new
tactics.
May 9, 2006 - Captain Ed - Some Guy With a Website
Only a relative handful of zealots are required to keep the suicide
bombs exploding, and the people who blow themselves up needn't have
much military skill. If al-Qaeda in Iraq is running short of these,
it is in desperate
straits.
May 6, 2006 - Jack Kelly
Zarqawi and his entourage are desperate
and incompetent.
May 5, 2006 - Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch
And we believe that indicated an act of desperation,
that he knows he's on the verge of complete failure in Iraq because
this national unity government's going to form. So getting out with
his face, we believe, was an act of desperation.
May 4, 2006 - Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch
Terrorist bombings and propaganda videos signify a desperate
attack by a desperate
enemy
April 30, 2006 - U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas
Wright
When an enemy changes strategy to play to your strength, it indicates
either desperation
or unbridled folly -- both of which augurs nothing but good news.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi now will indulge this desperation
or folly in fighting the Americans.
April 30, 2006 - Captain Ed - Some Guy With a Website
The violence will continue as the insurgents desperately
fight to derail democracy in Iraq, but as they have in the past
they will fail.
April 29, 2006 - Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch
The enemy is resorting to desperate
acts of violence because they know the establishment of democracy
in Iraq will be a double defeat for them.
April 29, 2006- President Bush
al-Qaeda and its affiliates are desperate
to claim Iraq as their own
April 28, 2006 - Henry Crumpton -U.S. State Department
anti-terrorism chief
This is an act of desperation.
He knows he’s in his final hours.
April 28, 2006 - Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch
Standup of new government prompts enemy desperation
The violence will continue as the insurgents desperately
fight to derail democracy in Iraq, but as they have in the past
they will fail.
April 28, 2006 - Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch
So operations continue against folks that are making bombs and
emplacing these bombs. But it's a true statement that he still has
the capability of conducting surge operations, and he did there,
and he did that in an act of desperation
because he sees this national unity government forming. And I'll
talk more about that in a minute.
snip
In this last week, as you're well aware, Zarqawi posted on the
Internet a video clip. He showed his face for the first time since
March of '04. We believe that's an act of desperation.
April 27, 2006 - Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch
The foreign fighters played this last desperate
card on Feb. 22 with the attack on the Askariya mosque in Samarra.
This desperate
attempt by foreign fighters to achieve a civil war in Iraq has failed.
April 10, 2006 Mike Coffman - Marine Corp civil affairs
officer /
Colorado State Treasurer.
Like many of these crimes, the latest Jihadi gimmick has all the
earmarks of a desperation
move.
April 4, 2006 J.R. Dunn editor of the International
Military Encyclopedia
Most isn't sectarian violence but rather desperate
acts of terrorism designed to derail the formation of the national
unity government or simply criminal activity.
March 31, 2006- Maj. Gen. James Thurman
The extremists see these changes and are desperate
to prevent that progress
March 27, 2006 - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
First of all, I think it's very important for people to understand
one reason they're so violent and desperate
is because they're trying to stop a society based upon liberty.
March 22, 2006- President Bush
As the terrorists become more desperate
we must remain resolute
March 21, 2006- Uk Secretary of State for Defence
John Reid
Clearly there is an attempt under way by the terrorists, by Zarqawi
and others, to foment civil war. That's been their strategy all
along, but my view would be they've reached a stage of desperation
from their standpoint
March 19, 2006- Vice President Cheney
Terrorists recognize that they're losing in Iraq and
that despite their desperate
attempts to prevent it, Iraq is emerging as a free democracy.
March 19, 2006- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Al-Qaeda is getting very desperate
as they see a democratic government emerge and an increasingly professional
Iraqi security force. We're going to see a lot more frustration
and desperation
before this is over.
March 19, 2006- Victor Davis Hanson
The growth of democracy and the political progress
leaders of the country are making in forming a government has made
terrorists desperate.
So desperate
that they would destroy one of their own most sacred shrines in
an attempt to cause civil war and strife.
March 5, 2006- Marine Gen. Peter Pace Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff
We are making progress in helping the Iraqis take control of their
own country, and this desperate
act by the terrorists failed to achieve their desired effect of
inciting a civil war based on sectarian differences.
March 1, 2006- Col. Gary Langford
Few observers suggested that the Samarra bombing of a holy mosque
by radical Muslims might be a sign of the terrorists' desperation--killers
who have not, and cannot, defeat the U.S. military.
March 1, 2006- Victor Davis Hanson
You can't base that assessment on a `crisis' because the more desperate
the terrorists become the more they'll try to make the crisis bigger.
February 24, 2006 - Joint Chiefs of Staff Strategic
Plans Director Lieutenant
General Gene Renaurt
But the level of violence is far from that envisioned by al Qaeda,
which seems to have conducted this attack as an act of desperation.
February 23, 2006 - James S. Robbins American Foreign
Policy Council
...an act of desperation
as well as an act of desecration by the people who committed this
outrage.
February 23, 2006 - Prime Minister Tony Blair
This desperate
and despicable act shows that terrorists stop at nothing and care
for nothing.
February 22, 2006 - Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and
General George Casey
Recently al-Zarqawi's terrorists seem to have found a new preoccupation:
assassinating Sunni leaders who are planning to participate in the
new Iraqi government. They killed prominent Sunnis in Kirkuk and
Fallujah last week. Those may be signs of desperation,
February 12, 2006 -Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein
terrorists are desperately
afraid of an Iraq whose people come to see extremism as the enemy
of progress not as an answer to injustice.
February 7, 2006 -Uk Defence Secretary John Reid
Recent spike in attacks in Iraq showed that al Qaeda and other
terrorists still have the capability to act, but they're growing
more desperate.
January 15, 2006 -Brig. Gen. Donald Alston
Continued acts of brutal violence performed by terrorist
groups operating in Iraq depict a desperate
and frustrated enemy .
January 12, 2006 - President Bush
The insurgents are becoming more desperate
as a democratic process increasingly took hold and desperate
people are dangerous people.
January 6, 2006 - Colonel Barry Johnson
This attack shows the desperate,
murderous nature of al-Qaeda.
January 6, 2006 - Marine Maj. Gen. Stephen Johnson
Today's escalated violence in Iraq another indication that Dec.
15 elections there were a major blow to al Qaeda and a sign of desperation
among terrorists hoping to disrupt the Iraq's progress.
January 5, 2006 - Marine Gen. Peter Pace Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Some very desperate
cowards are trying to stop the political process, no one has been
deterred by this in the least. They’re even more resolved
to continue the process.
January 6, 2006 - Col. John L. Gronski
The fact that the terrorists are attacking innocent civilians is
evidence that they are desperate.
It is difficult to attack our soldiers, so, they have turned to
soft targets, like Iraqi civilians.
January 6, 2006 - James D. Bell former Judge
In desperation,
the terrorists in Iraq will continue to employ roadside bombs and
recruit suicide bombers in cowardly attempts to obtain headlines
December 19, 2005 - Gerry J. Gilmore, American Forces
Press Service
The fatwas of Ayman al-Zawahiri sound ever more desperate
and shrill.
December 15, 2005 - Victor Davis Hanson
That is really why the terrorists groups in Iraq are feeling so
desperate.
December 14, 2005 - Seminary professor and former
Bush Sr. helper monkey Daniel Heimbach
The Baathist holdouts are a desperate
and fanatical lot, ready to die before submitting to minority status.
December 6, 2005 - William Tucker American Enterprise
Institute Ass.
The expectation always has been that violence would spike not only
with the approach of the election but with the ever-increasing desperation
of insurgents intent on disrupting Iraq’s democracy movement.
December 1, 2005 - Major General Rick Lynch
...this is clearly a sign of how desperate
insurgents have become.
December 1, 2005 - Captain Jeffrey Pool- Marine spokesman
They're (terrorists) hitting at soft targets, weddings and mosques,
it's a sign of desperation.
November
23, 2005 - U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Clarendon)
Does the eye of reason see in the frenzies of the terrorists desperation
of the kind insurgents feel who see defeat ahead, not victory? The
kind of people who are prepared to bomb children to express their
desperation?
November
22, 2005 - William F. Buckley Jr. - NRO Editor at Large
Despite the dangers encountered in operations like Steel Curtain,
U.S. and Iraqi forces are also enjoying what they see as desperate,
even "comical," incidents on the part of AQI-insurgents,
whom the Marines have dubbed "the mighty jihadi warriors."
November 20, 2005 - W. Thomas Smith Jr. - NRO Drone
As (Zarqawi) gets more desperate,
he'll get more violent .
November 20, 2005 - Captain Jeffrey Pool- Marine
spokesman
They (terrorists in Iraq) know what is at stake and try desperately
to derail our progress.
November 19, 2005 - Senator Elizabeth Dole
Was it a sign of desperation?
snip
Another sign of desperation:
Consider who Zarqawi sent to run the Amman operation, Mrs. Al-Rishawi’s
husband. He also a member of Zarqawi’s inner circle.
snip
Either way, it’s a sign of desperation.
November 18, 2005 -Richard Miniter internationally
recognized expert on terrorism.
The Amman bombings are not signs of al-Zarqawi's strength. On the
contrary, they are signs of desperation.
Bin Laden, meanwhile, has been curiously silent for more than a
year.
November 16, 2005 - Jonathan Gurwitz - wingnut hack
People who think this attack is evidence of al Qaeda's strength
or momentum have it backwards. This is a sign of weakness, of rashness,
of desperation.
November 14, 2005 - James S. Robbins American Foreign
Policy Council
That's a very good observation, because we are seeing tactics that
one would say ... show desperation.
November 14, 2005 - Joyce Davis- author
"Martyrs: Innocence, Vengeance and Despair in the Middle East."
From the continued “standing up” of a professional
Iraqi security force (military and police), the ongoing development
of Iraq’s physical infrastructure, and the forming of a constitutionally
based elected government, to the weakening of a now-desperate
insurgency; progress is indeed being made.
October 31, 2005 - W. Thomas Smith Jr.
(Terrorists) are desperate
because they can't gain credibility any other way, they resort to
mindless destruction at the media's front doorstep.
snip
A letter from al Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri,
reflects that desperation.
October 31, 2005 - Air Force Brig. Gen. Donald Alston
The more the Iraqi people move forward on the political process,
the more desperate
the terrorists become.
October 12, 2005 - Scott McClellan
That al Zarqawi perceives one of the main branches of Islam as
a threat greater than the United States itself demonstrates not
only the fragility of al Qaeda’s political and theological
tenets but a desperation
that can be sustained only through mayhem and violence.
September 26, 2005 - Aaron Goldstein, Intellectual
Conservative
He (Zarqawi ) is so desperate
and twisted he's attacking Shi'ites.
September 26, 2005 - unnamed Special-operations Officer
Al Qaeda is clearly getting desperate.
snip
It's a desperate
attempt to regain support among Sunnis, and a clear indication that
Al Qaeda is no longer getting the popular support it needs to be
effectiv
September 25, 2005 - Dave Nalle
The kidnapping demonstrates the desperation
of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his ability
to execute his strategy.
September 19, 2005 - Col. Billy J. Buckner, U.S.
military spokesman
And its latest excesses could well be the desperate
reaction of a movement under pressure from an advancing democratic
process and the accompanying intensification of American military
operations
September 16, 2005 - Telegraph editorial
The increase in attacks we saw today and yesterday is an indication
of their (Al-Qaeda's Iraq branch) desperation,
because they know that they cannot defeat us militarily
September 15, 2005 - US Central Command spokesman
We believe that it's a sign of desperation.
September 15, 2005 - Iraqi Government spokesman,
Bashar Al Nahar
The insurgents had become desperate
as Iraqis prepared to vote in an Oct. 15 referendum on a new constitution.
September 15, 2005 - Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, chief
military spokesman in Baghdad
The attacks show their desperation
and cowardice in the face of the setbacks they have suffered in
Tal Afar and elsewhere at the hands of Iraq's security forces.
September 15, 2005 - Al-Jaafari interim prime minister
of Iraq
And the biggest split we saw was when al Qaeda got so desperate
and started attacking women and children, and then Zarqawi said
it was okay to attack women and children.
And it's really desperate,
as we saw it again in April-May time frame in Mosul, a lot of targeting
of civilians.
We recently killed Zaid (sp) and we had that letter, and it also
talked about the desperate
situation for the al Qaeda and the insurgents in Mosul and in the
north.
September 14, 2005 - Colonel Robert Brown, Commander
of The 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Multinational Force-Northwest
Thus al-Qaidists and ex-Baathists alike are desperate
to drive us out.
September 6, 2005 - Victor Davis Hanson
As democracy in Iraq takes root, the enemies of freedom, the terrorists,
will become more desperate,
more despicable, and more vicious.
August 28, 2005 - President Bush
As Iraqi officials continue to finalize the nation's constitution
and outline for a democratic Iraq, increasingly desperate
insurgents are staging more frequent attacks on our soldiers and
Iraqi police forces.
August 18, 2005 - Congresswoman Deborah Pryce (R-Upper
Arlington)
As signs of progress continue to spring forth from Iraq, the terrorists
and insurgents grow more and more desperate
in their attempts to derail Iraq’s steady march toward democracy.
August 18, 2005 - U.S. Rep. Mark Green (R-Green Bay)
At some point, most would-be terrorists should see that their cause
is a desperate one.
August 9, 2005 - Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld
They are desperate
to get us out of Iraq, if we succeed in Iraq they will be surrounded
by elected governments.
Michael Ledeen - American Enterprise Institute
And, although they're desperate
to stop the forward march of freedom in the Middle East and beyond,
including Central Asia, ... they're failing at that as well.
August 4, 2005 - Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld
He struck in desperation
why else would he use 700 or 800 pounds of explosives just to blow
up a Humvee?
August 3, 2005 - Battalion commander Lt. Col. Steve
McCorkle
Although the Iraqi people remain determined to build a free society,
the terrorists are desperate
to try to stop them.
snip
They're desperate
to stop the forward march of freedom in the Middle East and beyond
-- and they're failing at that as well.
August 2, 2005 - Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld
Millions of Iraqis remain determined to continue that mission,
and violent extremists are desperate
to stop them.
July 20, 2005 - Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld
That was the true "breeding ground" of the world's menace,
not the Sunni triangle, where jihadists are continually under pressure
and increasingly desperate.
July 14, 2005 - Hugh Hewitt
further underscores the desperate
and evil agenda of terrorists working to undermine progress toward
democracy around the world.
July 8, 2005 - Scott McClellan
It's a desperate
attempt to halt the political process.
July 5, 2005 - Government Spokesman Laith Kubba
Today’s attack proved the terrorists are desperate
and the sovereign government of Iraq stands ready for any challenge.
June 24, 2005 - Major Ross Coffman, xo, 4th BCT,
3rd ID
And I've talked about it the last couple of days. If you look --
if you look at the terrorists and the regime elements that are seeking
to derail the transition to democracy, they are in a desperate
mode, and here's why.
June 21, 2005 - Scott McClellan
The terrorists and the regime elements are desperate.
June 20, 2005 - Scott McClellan
Here’s the policy point and what the Republicans have stood
for and what the American people fundamentally stood for last November
– that free and democratic Iraq and Afghanistan, once stabilized,
will break the backs of the terror network, and that is why there
is a desperate
last stand by terrorists, mostly foreign born, going on.
June 20, 2005 - Congressman John Sweeney
Terry, you have a desperate
group of terrorists in Iraq that are doing
snip
The Vice President talked about that the other day -- you have
a desperate
group of terrorists who recognize how high the stakes are in Iraq.
snip
I think I just explained to you the desperation
of terrorists and their tactics.
snip
And so this is a period when they are in a desperate
mode
June 16, 2005 - Scott McClellan
Well, that's the desperation
you see from terrorists and see from regime elements who know that
a free and peaceful Iraq is going to deal them a significant blow,
and deal a significant blow to their ambitions.
June 13, 2005 - Scott McClellan
The suicide bomber is a weapon of fanatics. But it is also a weapon
of desperation.
It is more likely that the increasingly indiscriminate bombings
are a desperate
effort to fend off destruction as the terrorists are flushed from
their hiding places.
June 11, 2005 - Jack Kelly
That makes the insurgents more desperate.
June 8, 2005 - Maj. Gen. William Webster
Attacks that target ordinary Iraqi citizens - represent an act
of desperation
in a campaign that's failing in its attempt to undermine this government
and show that it is weak.
June 5, 2005 - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoyshar Zebari
What you're seeing is a group of frustrated and desperate
people who kill innocent life...
May 31, 2005 - President Bush
So suicide attacks, whether in Okinawa or in Baghdad
today are not a sign of strength. They're a sign of desperation.
May 26, 2005 - Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
The insurgents in Iraq are active, but increasingly desperate
May 15, 2005 - Jack Kelley
The desperation
of the Islamofanatics is evident in such actions as an attempted
attack by as many as 50 fighters against a Marine convoy near Qaim
a few days ago.
snip
This is a significant development, but as it unfolds, the desperate
and futile bloodshed continues, with more and more Sunnis becoming
victims as well as Shiites.
May 13, 2005 - TCS hack Ralph Kinney Bennett
These, and other recent tragic incidents, are the desperate
acts of those seeking to destabilize the successful democratic political
process reflected in the recently elected Transitional Government.
May 11, 2005 - British Foreign Office minister for
the Middle East Kim Howells
But it shows that his (al-Zarqawi) organization is getting desperate.
April 29, 2005 - Retired Army Col. David Hunt
We see these attacks as another
desperate attempt by the terrorists to discredit the newly formed
Iraqi government.
April 29, 2005 - US-led forces statement
desperate
acts by desperate individuals
April 26, 2005 - US commanders
These cowardly acts by the desperate
terrorist are an attempt to disrupt our pursuit of a free and democratic
Iraq
April 25, 2005 - Thair al-Nakib, spokesman for the
Iraqi PM
(the attacks were) desperate
acts by desperate
individuals.
April 25, 2005 - Brig. Gen. John Basilica
Recent new attacks in the past few weeks are a desperate
move by the insurgents.
April 23, 2005 - U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Occasional
Democrat
But you still have -- and we said there would be difficult days
as we continue to move forward in Iraq to help the Iraqi people
realize a brighter future -- you still have enemies of freedom who
are desperately
trying to do everything they can to stop the transition to democracy
and freedom in Iraq.
April 21, 2005 -Scott McClellan
(the Insurgents in Iraq are) increasingly desperate.
April 21, 2005 -Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita
The terrorists are getting desperate
and that's why they are targeting civilians more and more
April 14, 2005 - Iraq Interior Minister Falah Naqib
They reflect the desperate
stage the terrorists reached.
April 14, 2005 - Thaer Nakib
Prime Minister Iyad Allawi spokesman
They're (insurgents) getting desperate,
aiming for the big casualty coup.
April 12, 2005 - Senior commander with experience
in the area
Belmont Club explains the new desperation
among the Iraqi insurgents, and the bad tactical blunders they are
making as a result.
April 12, 2005 - (Ret) Major Donald Sensing
As we make political progress I think that those who
are determined to interrupt the political process will become, will
despair more and more and will therefore resort more and more to
desperate
measures.
April 7, 2005 - Iraqi representative to the UN, Feisal
Amin al-Istrabadi
I think that they're desperate.
March 1, 2005 - Geneneral John Abizaid
So they're trying desperately
to undermine Iraq's progress and throw the country into chaos.
February 28, 2005 - President Bush
This progress is not good news for those who desperately
sought to wreck the electoral process.
February 14, 2005 - John D. Negroponte, U.S. ambassador
to Iraq &
George W. Casey, Jr., commander of the Multinational Forces in Iraq
I eagerly joined my colleagues in support of the president
and support of the Iraqi people, who have shown their fortitude
in defiance of desperate
terrorists.
February 6, 2005 - Representative Geoff Davis
Despite desperate
attempts by terrorists to destroy Iraq's future by intimidation
and other cowardly acts, Iraqis voted against terror and for democracy.
February 3, 2005 - Falah al-Naquib - Iraqi Minister
of the Interior
And freedom - not American policy, not foreign meddling,
but freedom itself - is clearly the permanent fear of the terrorist
insurgents who desperately
want to block this election, or, barring that, to strip it of legitimacy
in the eyes of Iraqis and the world.
Terrorist-in-chief in Iraq, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi,
in a statement showing just how |