Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Conseguenze degli attacchi a Ramadi (by Bill Roggio)

http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/01/blowback-from-the-ramadi-attac/
Blowback from the Ramadi Attack
Sunnis point fingers at al-Qaeda for deadly attack on police recruits
By Bill Roggio
The city of Ramadi is the last bastion of the insurgency and al-Qaeda in 
Anbar province. Yesterday’s deadly attack on prospective police recruits 
waiting outside the recruiting center may go a long way to erode that 
support.
The Washington Post reports “at least 80 Sunni Arabs were killed and 61 
wounded” by the suicide bomber, and residents of Ramadi are furious. 
Tribal leaders, who are very influential in the Iraqi culture, were 
killed during the attacks.
The responsibility for the attack is being placed directly on al-Qaeda’s 
shoulders. “Neither the Americans nor the Shiites have any benefit in 
doing this. It is Zarqawi,” said the brother of one of the wounded. 
According to the Washington Post, “Another group of people beat a doctor 
in the hospital after he told an Iraqi journalist that U.S. forces were 
to blame for the attacks… Others said they hoped that sympathies in the 
city… would turn against Zarqawi’s faction.”
Tensions between the Sunnis in Ramadi and al-Qaeda have been simmering 
for some time. Over the summer of 2005, members of the Dulaimi tribe in 
Ramadi took up arms in defense of their Shiite neighbors to protect them 
from al-Qaeda threats, killed five terrorists, and caused them to flee.
al-Qaeda often oversteps its bounds in Iraq, and targets sheikhs and 
tribal leaders, or attempts to extort local criminal enterprises (such 
as smuggling). This alienates the al-Qaeda from their natural base of 
support among the Sunnis people. The mass murder of Sunnis waiting to 
volunteer for the police certainly will not help al-Qaeda’s cause in Ramadi.
While in Iraq, I accompanied a joint Marine-Iraq Army raid of farming 
community on the Euphrates River near Husaybah. A small cache of shells 
and mortars were uncovered in a run-down shed, and was brought to a 
field that was only several hundred yards from the Syrian border. The 
line of concertina wire that separate Iraq and Syria was in full view. 
The Iraqi troops, while proud of their find, looked angrily across the 
border.
I asked “Icy” the interpreter about this, and he agreed to help me 
question the Iraqi soldiers. They stated the weapons were coming across 
the Syrian border and were being brought by al Qaeda to kill the Iraqi 
people. Their desire was to cross the border and get to the heart of the 
problem. No doubt there are Sunnis in Ramadi that are having similar 
feelings today.
January 6, 2006 01:58 PM

 January 6, 2006 01:58 PM
Questi ultimi due paragrafi sono molto interessanti.
Se le cose continuano di questo passo e la storia funziona da maestra, 
quanto tempo passerà prima che i militari iracheni inizino a fare dei 
veri raid oltre il confine.
Dopo tutto, in tutto l'Iraq, mano a mano che ci sono nuove truppe 
irachene a disposizione, sono le truppe irachene (sia polizia, che 
esercito che altri corpi) a prendere in mano il battlespace e ad agire 
con sempre maggiore autonomia sia nelle indagini che nelle azioni e 
nella resistenza agli attacchi di al-Qaeda e degli insorti saddamiti.
Mirco

 By Bill Roggio
http://rofasix.blogspot.com/2006/01/al-qaeda-mao-tse-tung.html
Questo altro blog, invece, cita un interessante passaggio di Mao sulla 
guerriglia che si adatta alla situazione (è in Trackback al post 
precedente):
In 1937 Mao Tse-tung wrote these words in his book, "On Guerrilla Warfare:"
     What is the relationship of guerrilla warfare to the people? 
Without a political goal, guerrilla warfare must fail, as it must, if 
its political objectives do not coincide with the aspirations of the 
people and their sympathy, co-operation, and assistance cannot be 
gained. The essence of guerrilla warfare is thus revolutionary in 
character. On the other hand, in a war of counter-revolutionary nature, 
there is no place for guerrilla hostilities. Because guerrilla warfare 
basically derives from the masses and is supported by them, it can 
neither exist nor flourish if it separates itself from their sympathies 
and co-operation.[ . . . ]
Mirco