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June 29, 2003

Experts Question Depth of Iraq Victory

Experts Question Depth of Victory

By Thomas E. Ricks
The Washington Post
Friday 27 June 2003

Attacks Indicate Baath Party Is Not Cowed

The wave of more sophisticated attacks on U.S. troops and civilian occupation forces in Iraq is raising new worries among military experts that the 21-day war that ended in April was an incomplete victory that defeated Saddam Hussein's military but not his Baath political party.

Neutralizing Baathist resistance is proving to be a more difficult job than the Pentagon calculated, and the continuing violence is becoming an embarrassment, one U.S. official in Baghdad said.

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