Please find below links to some recent UPI stories by our Pentagon Correspondent Pam Hess, currently concluding an eight week tour through Iraq, visiting all the country's 18 provinces to produce a comprehensive region-by-region report on U.S. military operations, the insurgent threat, the capabilities of Iraqi security forces and the state of reconstruction.
To learn more about Pam Hess, and find out how to get reprint or syndication rights for these reports, go to www.about.upi.com or get in touch with me at the address below. Thank you, Shaun Waterman UPI Homeland and National Security Editor E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 202 898 8081 http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050912-042717-9783r U.S. 'lacks moral authority' in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- "I don't know if I have the moral authority to send troops into combat anymore," a senior American general recently told United Press International. He knows what his power means -- that on his word hundreds or thousands of young men would step into danger. "I'm no longer sure I can look (a soldier or a Marine) in the eye and say: 'This is something worth dying for.'" He doesn't mean Iraq. There are plenty of bad people here to fight, and plenty of innocents worth protecting. His moral crisis was that he had been to Washington, D.C. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050919-011528-7888r Iraq's ethnic cauldron near boiling point KIRKUK, Iraq, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Oil-rich Kirkuk, balanced on the border between the majority-Kurdish areas of the north and the region to its south where their ethnic rivals the Turkmen and Arabs hold sway, is at the center of Iraq's ethnic cauldron. Locals believe there is a campaign afoot to flood Kirkuk with Kurds in order to gerrymander a forthcoming referendum on the city's status. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050901-083857-2106r At last, a U.S. counterinsurgency strategy QAYYARAH, Iraq, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Counter-insurgencies are fought and won at the level of individual communities -- villages and small towns. In military terms, that means that victory depends on battalion commanders. After more than two-and-a-half-years, the U.S. military's hard-learned lessons are at last beginning to bear fruit -- at least in this corner of northwestern Iraq. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050829-010709-5226r Don't let them 'Fallujah' us, Iraqis asked TALL'AFAR, Iraq, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Long before last week's offensive by U.S. and Iraqi forces against insurgent holdouts in Tall 'Afar, the U.S. military knew it had a problem there and reached out to tribal leaders. Just days before the offensive began, United Press International's Pam Hess visited the town -- and provides this unique account of the efforts by one U.S. military commander to win the complex struggle for hearts and minds. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050906-125204-1079r Tribal mosaic confuses counter-insurgency TALL 'AFAR, Iraq, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Close to the Syrian border and the "rat line" for foreign fighters, weapons and cash coming into the country, the small Iraqi town of Tall 'Afar was a safe harbor for insurgents until last week's offensive by U.S. and Iraqi forces. Purging the town of insurgents is complicated by a complex tapestry of ethnicities and religions and tribes. Just days before the offensive began, United Press International's Pam Hess visited the town -- and provides this unique account of how the witch's brew of ethnic and tribal relations complicates counter-insurgency. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
