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Not even that, considering that Harry would have been going to the South, where he's about as likely to bump into al-Qaeda as he is to ride into town on the back of Barney the Purple Dinosaur.
Remember there isn't an 'insurgency' as such, there's a small but unpleasant bunch of mainly foreign Sunni fighters who call themselves al-Qaeda, a larger Sunni bunch who are weed off about losing power and being ignored and several Shia groups, mainly linked to legitimate political parties in Iraq, and in a number of cases Iran. It's these latter guys that are killing our troops in larger and larger numbers, which, since they're the guys we're supposed to be *helping*, is the dirty little secret. After all, if Harry got blown up by a group allied to the Iraqi Prime Minister, that might just reveal that things aren't quite 'Us Versus The Terrorists'. Given that, it's unsurprising that he's being kept on a leash.
Of course, if it was a group allied to *Iran* that got him, what would be the result there? That would be a *really* hard decision (think about it).