Further, its support of the insurgency in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan continues unabated.
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Moreover, from Iran, Adel and bin Laden worked with Zarkawi in planning the group's insurgency in Iraq.
Can it be sweet-talked into ending its support for the insurgency in Iraq, or arming Hizbullah and sponsoring Hamas?
Americans were fighting a savage insurgency in Iraq, and stories about war crimes committed by American troops began to surface.
Iran was the principle sponsor of the insurgency in Iraq and remains the principle supporter of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Al-Zarqawi has been busy, trying to make himself the leader of the insurgency in Iraq, and not being shy about it.
It is the primary sponsor of the insurgency in Iraq and, with Pakistan, the major sponsor of the insurgency in Afghanistan.
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It is working to whitewash Iran's role in fomenting the insurgency in Iraq in an effort to restart direct negotiations with Teheran.
While Mitchell was in the region, Syria also hosted a delegation of U.S. military commanders in Damascus to discuss joint efforts to stem the insurgency in Iraq.
On the one hand, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad came as the US wages a seemingly last-ditch attempt to defeat the insurgency in Iraq.
And the US, distracted by the escalating insurgency in Iraq, would do nothing substantive to protect the March 14 forces from the far stronger Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hizbullah.
U.S. military units say they've uncovered a complex connection between insurgent shakedowns, government corruption and crooked businessmen that together pay for the insurgency in Iraq's largest northern city.
In Syria, not only did the US refuse to take any action against President Bashar Assad despite his active sponsorship of the insurgency in Iraq, it failed to cultivate any ties with Syrian regime opponents.
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Franklin asked them to use their connections with the National Security Council to make then-president George W. Bush aware of Iran's central role in the insurgency in Iraq and of its swift progress in its nuclear program.
U.S. authorities say al Qaeda continues to use such money-transfer services to fund the insurgency in Iraq--"a significant means that terrorists use to move money, " Caleb Temple, senior intelligence officer at the government's Defense Intelligence Agency, told a House subcommittee this summer.
Despite Syria's open sponsorship of the insurgency in Iraq, its strategic alliance with Iran, as well as its sponsorship of Hizbullah, Hamas and al-Qaida in Iraq and Lebanon, the Bush administration sought to prevent Israel from destroying Syria's Iranian-financed, North Korean-built nuclear installation.
Unfortunately, President Obama's statements during the press conference also totally ignored Iran's role in the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan as detailed over and over by the US military, as well as Iran's deep involvement with Al Qaeda, as detailed by the US Treasury Department within the last month.
Ms. RICE: Well, I don't think it's - we ought to make the assumption that simply because we're dealing with a Sunni-based insurgency in Iraq and Sunni Muslims in Somalia and other parts of Africa, that they necessarily share a common agenda against the United States or against Western interests.
In an attempt to quell the continuing insurgency in Iraq and bring closer the point when the country is able to control its own security, Mr Allawi announced on Monday that he had succeeded in getting nine of the country's main factions to dissolve their militias, with a combined strength of 100, 000 fighters.
The purpose of his "fact-finding" mission was to castigate the Bush administration for its refusal to pursue Syria as an ally, and to decry Damascus's international isolation caused by its support for the insurgency in Iraq, its strategic alliance with Iran, its support for Hizbullah as well as Hamas and al-Qaida, its illicit nuclear program and its subversion of the pro-Western Lebanese government.
In the process, they have improved, with the Italians, for example, commended for counter-insurgency work in Iraq.
David Kilcullen, who advised Petreaus on his successful counter-insurgency campaign in Iraq and now advises the White House, warned last week that Pakistan could fall within six months.
His revised strategy was based on counter-insurgency methods developed in Iraq.
Although sectarian violence has decreased in Iraq since the height of the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, attacks are still common.
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Although violence has decreased in Iraq since the peak of the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, attacks are still common and at least 220 civilians were killed in February.
It's now generally acknowledged that for years American military tactics in Iraq have fed the insurgency by such actions as kill or capture missions, kicking in doors in the middle of the night, handcuffing men to be detained in their night clothes, and the mistreatment of detainees, especially at Abu Ghraib.
Mr Allawi and American officials in Iraq argue that, since the insurgency is mainly concentrated in a few areas, the election could go ahead in the rest of the country, and would be legitimate even if the rebel strongholds did not take part.
It describes those problems as enormous: Violence in Iraq, fed by an insurgency, militias and crime, is increasing in scope and lethality.
It is because of these connotations that the term has been misused and is particularly inaccurate in describing the segment of the insurgency which operates in Sunni-populated areas of Iraq.
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