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Iraq's bad guy list

Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough:

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Topping the list of most-wanted former regime officials is Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the former vice chairman of Saddam Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council.
"Al-Duri is believed to be the current leader of the New Regional Command and the New Ba'ath Party," the statement said. "As such he provides guidance, financial support and coordination of the former regime insurgency."
He is funding the insurgents through "expropriated" Iraqi money and is a major source of attacks on U.S. and allied forces.
The second on the list is Muhammad Yunis al-Ahmad, who is identified as a "financial facilitator and operational leader" of the New Regional Command and New Ba'ath Party.
"Yunis is charged with providing funding, leadership and support to several insurgent groups conducting attacks against the Iraqi people, the interim government, Iraqi National Guard, the Iraqi police and coalition forces," the statement said.
Another wanted former regime leader was identified as Fadhil Ibrahim Mahmud Mashadani, "a critical link between the senior Ba'athist leaders hiding in Syria and the insurgents within Iraq."
The top most-wanted terrorist on the list is Abu Musab Zarqawi, who the statement said has mobilized foreign al Qaeda terrorists and criminals in killing 500 Iraqis in the past year. Zarqawi fled Fallujah in November, the statement said. Sources previously told The Washington Times that Zarqawi fled the city the previous summer and was moving around Iraq.
Another key insurgent was identified as Muhammad Rajab al-Hadushi, a lieutenant colonel in Saddam's presidential guard and Special Security Organization.
Another key terrorist on the list is Sheik Abdalluh Abu Azzam, known as the Amir of Anbar, who has killed current government officials and was described as "a grave threat to the Iraqi people and to the rebuilding of Iraq."

If you read the history of successfull counter insurgencies, capture of leadership targets was always a key to the demise of the insurgents. Max Boot's Savage Wars of Peace. Gives numerous examples. When you read the book you also realise, contrary to popular antiwar myth, that the US has been very successful in defeating insurgencies, from the Phillipines to Central America. The one war the antiwar pukes remember is Vietnam, but they still do not comprehend how liberal Democrats created a strategy for defeat in that war. Still in Vietnam, the insurgency did not win that war. In fact it was barely hanging on. The communist won in Vietnam after the SU left by using conventional warfare, which US forces could have easily defeated, had not the Democrats in Congress backed out of the SU commitment to Vietnam.

Gertz and Scarboroug also discuss our enemies in South America including Hugo Chavez and his relationship withthe FARC rebels in Colubia. Chavez is a bad guy and will have to be dealt with. He can make himself a targetinthe war on terror if his support of Columbian terrorist becomes more overt.