Good news from Iraq

Unfortunately not news on those 3 soldiers that were captured a while back, two are still missing, the latest I read today was that one soldier may have been found dead but it’s unconfirmed.
There is good news from Iraq, believe it or not. It comes from the most unlikely place: Anbar province, home of the Sunni insurgency. The level of violence has plummeted in recent weeks. An alliance of U.S. troops and local tribes has been very effective in moving against the al-Qaeda foreign fighters. A senior U.S. military official told me—confirming reports from several other sources—that there have been "a couple of days recently during which there were zero effective attacks and less than 10 attacks overall in the province (keep in mind that an attack can be as little as one round fired). This is a result of sheiks stepping up and opposing AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq] and volunteering their young men to serve in the police and army units there." The success in Anbar has led sheiks in at least two other Sunni-dominated provinces, Nineveh and Salahaddin, to ask for similar alliances against the foreign fighters. And, as TIME's Bobby Ghosh has reported, an influential leader of the Sunni insurgency, Harith al-Dari, has turned against al-Qaeda as well. It is possible that al-Qaeda is being rejected like a mismatched liver transplant by the body of the Iraqi insurgency.
And who is pushing the hardest to end the surge, call it quits and ‘redeploy’. And they keep a straight face while telling us how they also hate the terrorists just as much as we do. Hat tip Hang Right Politics.

1 comment:

  1. mullah cimoc say now good time for ameriki remember who starting this war. who make ameriki for to kill the muslim.

    answer: him neocon. him israeli spy operative.

    for this so much the torture and the suffering. patriot ameriki needing for escape control of masters in tel aviv. be free amerika.

    usa media so control now.

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