Farnaz Fassihi Quotes

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq].

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

We told the Taliban in no uncertain terms that if this happened, it’s their ass. No difference between the Taliban and al Qaeda now. They both go down.

Insurgencies are nearly as old as warfare itself.

A Taliban collapse could be rapid, with the enemy shrinking to a small number of hard-core Mullah Omar supporters in the early days or weeks of a military campaign.

We are very well-trained soldiers and we are armed. We will start ambushes, bombings, and even suicide bombings. We will not let the Americans rule us in such a humiliating way.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

We are at war with Al Qaeda and its affiliates.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

Arafat conducts terror; his strategy is the strategy of terror.

In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

I spent several months patrolling Al Dora district in Baghdad in 2006 with the 101st Airborne. It's a tough neighborhood. There's a lot of militias operating there, including a lot of Shiite militias, which are backed by Iran.

By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.

I grew up in Punjab when terrorism was at its peak.

They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be.

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance.

How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.

We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in every Muslim spot.

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.