وبازدياد عدد الهجمات وانتشارها وضراوتها، ازداد أيضا عدد التقارير التي تتحدث عن تورط “مقاتلين أجانب”.
Initially, attacks against coalition forces in Iraq had the appearance of typical guerrilla-war tactics and were put down to Baath party loyalists and mafia-like criminal elements of the former Saddam Hussein regime.