Not American undecideds, but Iraqi. The news out of Iraq is that the rebel forces are considerably larger than previous estimates and their support is growing. Funds appear to be coming from missing Saddam money as well as Saudi Arabia and Muslim charities. Yep, those Saudis have really clamped down on those charities to help their close friend America. Also interesting of note in this study is that foreign fighters are in the minorty and not all-controlling as the White House would like us to believe. Can we now stop telling everyone that Zarqawi is the only terrorist running around Iraq?
Perhaps the most important variable, these officials note, is that a large segment of the Iraqi population still has not decided whether to give active support to the new government.
Despite concerns about foreign fighters, American officials said the most significant challenge to the stabilization effort came from domestic Iraqi insurgents, and not from foreign terrorists, despite the violence of attacks organized or carried out by foreigners.
"It's not just one group of insurgents rallying under one cause. It's multiple groups with different causes loosely tied together by the threads of anti-U.S. sentiment, some sort of Iraqi nationalism, Muslim-Arab unity or greed."
According to data assembled by the military, about 80 percent of the violent attacks are criminal in nature - kidnappings for ransom or hijackings of convoys - with no political motivation. Of the other 20 percent, which include the most violent attacks on Iraqi security forces, the American military and international organizations, about four-fifths are attributed to domestic insurgents rather than to foreign terrorists.
