Lightly-armed insurgent forces are like grains of sand. As combat power is deployed against them they tend to drift away, either going to ground or seeking another battlefield on which to fight "US fails to knock out rebels" BBC
It’s one case after another of people from Baghdad, Fallujah, Latifiya, Balad, Ramadi, Samarra, Baquba...from all over Iraq, who have been injured by the heavy-handed tactics of American soldiers fighting a no-win guerilla war spawned from an illegal invasion based on lies. Their barbaric acts of retaliation have become the daily reality for Iraqis, who continue to take the brunt of the frustration and rage of the soldiers. "Slash and Burn" by Dahr Jamail.

A Sampling Of Fighting In Iraq During November 2004 Following US Seige Of Falluja:
Baghdad:
11/30/2004 A suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives next to a U.S. convoy on Baghdad's airport road on Tuesday, and several casualties were seen lying next to a damaged vehicle.
11/29/2004 Two US soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack on their convoy in the Baghdad area. Thirteen US marines and two civilians were also wounded when mortar shells struck a military base south of Baghdad, a marine spokesman said.
11/28/2004 beside a US convoy on the notorious airport road in Baghdad Fadhil Jawad, who watched the attack from the roof of his home, said he saw a late-model luxury car overtake the six-vehicle convoy moments before exploding in a ball of fire, AP reported. Two of the Humvees were destroyed in the explosion and the rest veered off the road, he said.
11/25/2004 A group linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed that it had killed in Baghdad a US State Department official who worked with the Iraqi ministers of education and higher education.
11/22/2004 A bomb has been found on a commercial flight in Iraq at Baghdad International Airport and insurgents attacked a U.S. convoy, setting fire to an armored vehicle.
11/20/2004 Baghdad exploded in violence Saturday, as insurgents attacked a U.S. patrol and a police station, assassinated four government employees and detonated several bombs. One American soldier was killed and nine were wounded during clashes that also left three Iraqi troops and a police officer dead.
11/19/2004 U.S. Backed Forces Raided the Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad shooting and killing at least four people who were praying. A suicide car bomber rammed into a police patrol in Baghdad Friday, killing one policeman, police and hospital officials said.
11/17/2004 A car bomb exploded outside an Iraqi police station in western Baghdad today, killing two Iraqis and wounding four others
11/11/2004 Many people were killed when a car bomb exploded in the middle of a traffic jam at the crossroads of a shopping street in Baghdad.
Baghdadi:
11/30/2004 A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in western Iraq on Monday, killing at least seven people and injuring nine. The attack in Baghdadi, located 120 miles northwest of the capital, was the latest strike in an insurgent campaign against Iraq’s fledgling security forces following the US-led assault on Fallujah earlier this month.
Balad:
11/16/2004 One American soldier was killed and another injured in an attack launched by gunmen against their vehicle in Balad to the north of Baghdad on Tuesday.
Baquba:
11/27/2004 Three people have been injured in clashes between fighters opposed to the US-backed interim Iraqi government and police in the city of Baquba.. Aljazeera has learned that the clashes erupted after the fighters, armed with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and machine guns, attacked al-Wihda police station in the centre of the city, early on Sunday. Columns of smoke have been seen rising from the area as clashes continue across the city. 11/23/2004 Robbers in Iraq killed three people, wounded six and made off with half a million dollars in cash.
11/15/2004 US aircraft and ground forces on Monday attacked the city of Baquba following clashes between Iraqi resistance fighters and Iraqi security forces.
Basra
11/29/2004 British and Iraqi troops were deployed around the headquarters of the Iraqi National Guard southern regional headquarters after the chief staff, Brig Gen Diaa al-Kadhimi, refused to accept an order from Baghdad to remove himself from his post, Iraqi officials said. Al-Kadhimi was to have been replaced by the national guard chief in Amarah, Salah al-Maliki. The standoff was continuing Monday afternoon.
11/24/2004 Five Arab foreign fighters who had escaped from Fallujah were arrested near southern Basra, where they were planning to attack coalition bases and police stations, authorities said Thursday.
11/22/2004 In the southern city of Al-Basrah, police said a former Ba'ath Party official and a policeman were killed by unknown assailants.
11/17/2004 A Scottish father, working as a security guard in war-torn Iraq, has been killed in a booby trap bomb explosion near Basra, it was revealed yesterday.
Beiji:
11/30/2004 Four Iraqi civilians were killed and 19 people, including two American soldiers, were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a U.S. military convoy in the northern town of Baiji Tuesday.
11/18/2004 A booby trapped car targeted one American military convoy in the downtown of the city injuring several Americans who opened fire indiscriminately and resulted in damaging one American vehicle. Later in the day, violent clashes erupted between the American forces and gunmen in several quarters of the city which have been witnessing since days an intensive deployment of fighters.
11/17/2004 A car bomber rammed a U.S. convoy in Beiji Wednesday during clashes with militants that killed 10 people and wounded over 20.
11/11/2004 Insurgents have taken to the streets of the oil centre of Baiji in northern Iraq and clashes have broken out with Iraqi security forces, according to witnesses. The gunmen stopped cars in several streets, the witnesses said on Thursday. (Baiji is home to Iraq's biggest refinery.)
Hillah:
11/21/2004 A suicide car bomber attempted to kill the police chief of Hillah by ramming his car into General Qais Abdullah's vehicle
Jabella
11/23/2004 US marines and a so-called Iraqi SWAT team "swept through the south-central Iraqi town of Jabella, kicking off a fresh campaign in northern Babil province," the US military said in a statement.
Khalis
11/27/2004 Insurgents attacked and briefly occupied city hall in a town north of Baghdad early Saturday before being driven out by U.S. and Iraqi forces in a firefight that left several rebels dead and one policeman wounded, officials said. The incident in Al Khalis on Saturday involved about 100 attackers who raided the city hall and two police stations, said municipal official Saad Ahmed Abbas.
Kirkuk:
11/25/2004 An explosion hit a domestic pipeline Thursday that runs from northern Kirkuk to the Beiji refinery, oil officials said.
11/22/2004 Late on Tuesday, fighters opened fire on Iraqi national guard soldiers in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing one guardsman and a civilian, the US military said.
11/21/2004 Saboteurs blew up an oil well north- west of Kirkuk - 180 miles north of Baghdad. It was the sixth well to be bombed in 10 days.
11/18/2004 Two Iraqis are killed by an explosion in the rush hour near a recruitment centre in the northern city of Kirkuk
11/11/2004 Attempted assasination of the Kurdish governor of Iraq's northern province.
Latifiyah
11/22/2004 Iraqi security forces have recovered 12 bodies, including five decapitated ones, from an area south of Baghdad, police say. One family identified one of the corpses as belonging to an Iraqi National Guard member kidnapped from his home in Mahmoudiya nearly four weeks ago.
Mahaweel
11/23/2004 A gunbattle between police and Iraqi fighters south of Baghdad in the central Iraqi town of Mahaweel left one fighter dead, the Iraqi police said.
Miqdadiya
11/23/2004 A group of armed men have killed a Muslim cleric in the town of Miqdadiya, the second assassination of an Association of Muslim Scholars' member in Iraq in two days, witnesses and hospital officials say.
Mosul:
11/28/2004 Iraq's most feared terror group claimed responsibility Sunday for slaughtering members of the Iraqi security forces in Mosul, where dozens of bodies have been found.
11/26/2004 13 bodies were discovered in and around the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. military said Friday, bringing the total nuber of corpses found in the area in the past week to35 .
11/24/2004 Insurgents increased their efforts to take control of Mosul, ambushing a convoy of Kurdish peshmerga fighters and attacking the Kurdish deputy governor of Nineveh province.
11/22/2004 The former police chief of Mosul has been arrested for allegedly allowing insurgents to take over police stations during an uprising in the northern city, a senior official said Monday. A senior Sunni Muslim cleric was killed in a drive-by shooting in Mosul.
11/21/2004 The bodies of three men killed by insurgents have been found on a street in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Scraps of paper left on the three bodies said they were peshmerga, or Kurdish militiamen. Many of the region's recruits to the Iraqi National Guard, Iraq's newly formed civil defence force, are peshmerga. Tensions between Arabs and their Kurdish neighbours from the northern mountains have risen in Mosul recently with the arrival of ethnically Kurdish National Guards to replace police who fled their posts during the rebel offensive this month.
11/20/2004 The bodies of nine purported members of the Iraqi National Guard have been found in Mosul, where clashes between the troops, supported by US forces, and armed fighters continued for a third day. The city's fighters appear to be hitting back at soft targets with the US military saying it received unconfirmed reports that 12 members of the Iraq's paramilitary national guard had been kidnapped and possibly executed. The fighters also destroyed an interim government-owned warehouse on the west side of the city, where voter registration forms for the January elections were turned into smouldering ashes.
11/19/2004 Troops raided a Mosul hospital claiming insurgents were using it to treat their wounded.
11/18/2004 Rebels attacked the provincial governor's office killing one of his bodyguards and wounding four more as US troops "prepared to storm insurgent strongholds".
11/17/2004 U.S. and Iraqi forces secured more than three quarters of Mosul's police stations as the US uses Kurdish forces to attack the mostly Arab city.
11/15/2004 A suicide bomber detonated his car near a US military convoy.
11/11/2004 Iraqi government rushed reinforcements to the key city of Mosul after police fled and armed men brandishing automatic weapons seized control of the streets. Insurgents acquired thousands of police uniforms during the looting.
Najaf:
11/28/2004 The governor of Iraq’s Shia-dominated Najaf province said that police had arrested his own security chief after uncovering an alleged plot to assassinate top regional officials including the governor himself.
Ramadi:
11/29/2004 A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle outside a police station west of the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Monday, killing at least 12 Iraqis.
11/21/2004 Insurgents launched a deadly ambush Sunday in the guerrilla stronghold of Ramadi, killing eight Iraqi National Guardsmen and injuring 18 others, police said. Seven people were also killed when a bus they were travelling in through the Iraqi city of Ramadi came under fire, police and witnesses said.
11/20/2004 U.S. forces and resistance fighters battled in the city of Ramadi. Nine Iraqis were killed and five injured in Saturday's fighting, hospital officials said. Also on Saturday, US marines have killed several Iraqi civilians when a bus drove through a checkpoint in the city of Ramadi; Police said seven died.
11/18/2004 US armoured units had entered parts of eastern and central Ramadi today to confront guerrillas who opened fire on them with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns.
11/17/2004 Seven Iraqis were killed and 13 wounded when US forces confronted large groups of gunmen firing rockets and mortars.
11/15/2004 Heavy fighting erupted on Monday between anti-US fighters and American forces in Ramadi.
11/10/2004 Hundreds of armed men control al-Ramadi downtown
Rutba
11/17/2004 At least 31 Iraqi police were kidnapped in the town of Rutba near the Jordanian border by armed men who stormed a hotel where the men were staying.
Samarra
11/29/2004 Gunmen stormed a police station west of Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, looted the armory, commandeered several police cars and fled after encountering no resistance, Iraqi officials said.
11/28/2004 A car bomb exploded as a US convoy was passing in Samarra north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing five civilians and wounding four.
11/25/2004 Two people have been killed and 14 wounded in bomb attacks, one of them involving a human bomber.
11/23/2004 A roadside bomb went off in the central Iraqi city of Samarra and mortar rounds landed near a U.S. military outpost in attacks that killed one and wounded three others, including two children, police said Tuesday.
11/20/2004 Two Iraqi national guardsmen have been wounded by a roadside bomb. Fighting then broke out between US troops and insurgents, and three large explosions were heard from the the direction of the US army's main base in the city.
11/5/2004: Car bombs and clashes killed at least 37 Iraqis in this restive town north of Baghdad as thousands of US and Iraqi troops prepared the assault on the Sunni Muslim rebel bastion of Fallujah.
Tikrit:
11/27/2004 A US military tank was destroyed when it was hit by an explosive device in al-Dhuluaiya district south of Tikrit.
Tal Afar
11/14/2004 Guerrilla attacks have flared in Tal Afar, about 50 kilometers west of Mosul. On Sunday, insurgents laid siege to several police stations in the area, partly demolishing one in a bomb attack, said Lieutenant Colonel Paul Hastings, a spokesman for Task Force Olympia. Frightened residents piled into cars and began fleeing the town.
Yusufiya:
11/29/2004 U.S. Marines said they killed several insurgents and took 32 suspects in a series of actions south of Baghdad on Sunday that included a high-speed riverborne raid on suspected weapons dumps on the Euphrates.