“The Bush administration issued its ‘100 days in Iraq’ report on 11 August 2003 and concluded that the ‘low-intensity conflict’ with insurgents–whom they still identified as Ba’athist stragglers–was all but over. ‘Most of Iraq is calm,’ it commented. ‘Only in isolated areas are there still attacks.’ “
– Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of al Qaeda, Page 202