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Disparate Iraqi rebel groups unite over main of goal of expelling U.S.

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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20041018
Author:Edward Wong

Edward Wong
International Herald Tribune
10-18-2004
To hear the American commanders in Iraq tell it, William Butler Yeats could well be the poet laureate of Iraq's insurgency. If the guerrillas were to win this war with their suicide car bombs and televised beheadings, what would come next? Nothing, the commanders say, but a widening gyre, and things falling apart, and, finally, mere anarchy being loosed in the cradle of civilization. ''This is a negative insurgency,'' Brigadier General Erwin Lessel, deputy director of operations for the multinational forces, said in an interview inside the ...

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