![]() ![]() ![]() Though insurgent attacks occurred throughout Iraq, senior Coalition commanders and Iraqi government officials realized that the key to success for a new Iraq was restoring order in the lawless Al Anbar province. New Dawn: The Battles for Fallujah, by Richard S. Exploiting all this was a witches’ brew of well armed and supplied insurgents including al Qaeda, unemployed and angry former Ba’athists, and ex-Iraqi Republican Army troops, as well as a growing flood of anti-American insurgents recruited from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere. The general population, still shell-shocked over the wrenching upheaval in their lives, distrusted the new government and resented the American troops, viewing them as occupiers and not liberators. The recently-installed Iraqi government was a fragile coalition whose members were unused to their new nation-building responsibilities the reconstituted Iraqi army and security forces, purged of Ba’ath Party members, were poorly trained, paid, and motivated, and were unreliable the Iraqi infrastructure was in shambles. Less than a year later, in early 2004, America found itself confronting the all-too-real probability that it was about to lose the peace. In 2003, the U.S.-led Coalition in Operation Iraqi Freedom had won the war, toppling dictator Saddam Hussein and his Ba’ath Party regime. ![]()
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