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	Benchmarks: Escalating war

diodisegno

6-7-2007 2:49 PM

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war, iraq, insurgents, sunni, military, iip, ied

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0f63721a-7d66-48fa-9659-9db40f86d260/70F1669F-6ED9-488B-907F-129AFE2259E2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/07/benchmarks_escalating_war/7978/" href="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/07/benchmarks_escalating_war/7978/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.upi.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/07/benchmarks_escalating_war/7978/"> The Pentagon claims that since January, U.S. forces have killed or captured more than 20,000 insurgents.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/07/benchmarks_escalating_war/7978/"> From June 2005 through September 2006, the total number of insurgents was repeatedly put at 20,000 by U.S. officials,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/07/benchmarks_escalating_war/7978/">IIP put the most recent estimate available to it for March 2007 at 70,000 Sunni insurgents in Iraq, including non-operational supporters.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/07/benchmarks_escalating_war/7978/"> The percentage of U.S. fatalities caused by improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, placed as roadside bombs fell from 62.6 percent in December to 40.5 percent in January and 31.6 percent in February. But then it jumped back to 62.2 percent in March, 57.7 percent in April and 64.6 percent in May, according to IIP figures.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/07/benchmarks_escalating_war/7978/">U.S. armed forces and Department of Defense have still failed to master the IED threat, almost three years after</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/07/benchmarks_escalating_war/7978/">the Joint Improvised Explosive Devices Defeat Organization.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/07/benchmarks_escalating_war/7978/"> JIEDDO has grown into a fiscal and bureaucratic juggernaut whose budget has soared from $3.8 billion to $4.4 billion.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/70F1669F-6ED9-488B-907F-129AFE2259E2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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