About 90 percent of all insurgent attacks have been in this area.
Once the first insurgent attack takes place on Jan. 31, what will the war be about then?
Many have lost relatives or friends in insurgent attacks, officials said.
The vote seems likely to be accompanied by major insurgent attacks.
Even so, most victims of insurgent attacks have been Shiite.
At least 13 people were killed yesterday in an array of insurgent attacks.
The real question, he said, is whether the Iraqi security forces will ever be able to protect the infrastructure from insurgent attack.
The statements came on another day, the second since the elections, with a low level of insurgent attacks in Iraq.
It was the latest of several recent demonstrations against insurgent attacks in the country.
The mine personnel had fled ahead of the insurgent attack.