washingtonpost.com: U.S. Isolates Hussein's Birthplace

"Three days later, Auja had become, in effect, a reverse 'strategic hamlet': Instead of forcing peasants into new villages surrounded by barbed wire to separate them from insurgents, as U.S. forces had done during the Vietnam War, Russell encircled an existing village with barbed wire to keep the wealthy insurgents inside and under control. "

"Insurgent" may become the new watchword, next to "militant", replacing "pinko" or "commie" in the post cold war.