AND CONTRARY TO RUMSFELD'S OPINION, SOME IN THE PENTAGON ARE USING THE "G" WORD.

Guerilla.

Until the past few days, US military officials had insisted that the attacks were merely a product of the final rooting out of the remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime. Now they are beginning to float the idea that US forces face several different opposition forces - and military experts outside the government concur with that assessment.

"There are disgruntled Iraqis, upset about house searches or whatever, who might throw rocks or the occasional grenade," said retired Maj. Gen. William Nash, now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "And at the other end of the spectrum, there are members of the old regime, reinforced by foreign fighters, that are looking more organized every day."

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