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Fighting Insurgency on Sacred Ground
- The Washington Quarterly
- The MIT Press
- Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 2006
- pp. 149-166
- Article
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Iraqi insurgents are using their own mosques as operational bases, often forcing U.S. military commanders to choose between desecrating a sacred space or letting insurgents escape. Israel and India, along with experience from Iraq to date, offer four core lessons for how to respond.