Iraqi rebels and others who know the Mideast list three essential goals: 1.

Americans officers have often mocked the errant marksmanship of the Iraqi rebels.

Iraqi rebels do not expect effective coups to center in Baghdad.

But there is a bigger one, for all Iraqi rebels.

The Kuwaiti officials said the Iraqi rebels were organized into two groups.

Efforts to remove the bars get increasingly complicated as do the Americans' relations with the Iraqi rebels living directly above the loot.

As often happens with car bombs - an increasingly used and effective weapon of Iraqi rebels - the main casualties were civilians.

There was also the possibility that the Iraqi rebels were waiting for dark before attacking.

And Iraqi rebels have the advantage of a powerful, on-demand distributor: the Internet.

They wish for guns and supplies for the thousands of Iraqi rebels still in the field.