Attacks on U.S. led forces in Iraq have escalated
over the past several months, and insurgents are
now launching an average of fourteen assaults a
day....  The data also show insurgents are using
more sophisticated tactics and weapons.

There were few attacks against coalition forces
immediately after Baghdad fell in April.  But by
early summer, the Army said attacks were averaging
about a dozen per day.  The number of attacks exceeded
twenty on some days.  The attacks are killing an
average of three to six American troops per week.

"The enemy has evolved," Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez,
commander of coalition forces in Iraq, said Thursday
in Baghdad.  "It is a little bit more lethal, a
little bit more complex, a little bit more
sophisticated and in some cases a little bit more
tenacious."

Sanchez said coalition forces need to be prepared
for more casualties and a long stay in Iraq.

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Attaccos sur le fortias armate in Iraq dirigite
per le Statos Unite ha escalate durante le ultime
menses, e insurgentes iraqi nunc lancea un media
de dece-quatro assaltos diarie....  Le datos anque
monstra que le insurgentes nunc usa tacticas e armas
plus sophisticate.

Il habeva pauc attaccos contra le coalition
statounitese immediatemente post le conquesta de
Baghdad.  Ma post le arrivata del estate, le media
de attaccos esseva circa dece-duo, e a vices plus
que vinti, cata die.  Le attaccos occide un media
de tres a sex americanos cata septimana.

"Nostre inimicos ha evoluite," diceva le General
Richardo Sanchez, le commandante del fortias del
coalition statounites in Iraq, in un commentario
facite le passate jovedi in Baghdad.  "Illes es
un pauco plus lethal, un pauco plus complicate,
un pauco plus sophisticate, e, in alicun casos,
un pauco plus tenace."

Sanchez diceva que le fortias del coalition debera
esser preparate pro un taxa plus grande de mortes
e un occupation plus extendite in Iraq.

(Per Jim Michaels, "USA Today", 3-5 octobre, 2003,
p. 1)

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