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Al-Qaeda is driven from Mosul bastion after bloody last stand - Times Online

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:08:17 -0000

The hunt began just after dawn. Iraqi armoured personnel carriers surrounded the turbulent Zanjali district in the northern city of Mosul, blocking off roads as police acting on an urgent tip-off swept in and searched from house to house.

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Beneath it they found a ceremonial knife in an apparent torture chamber, its walls spattered with blood. Videos recovered from the chamber showed Iraqi soldiers and police being executed.

Al-Qaeda suffered perhaps its greatest blow on June 24 when American soldiers gunned down Abu Khalaf, the “emir of Mosul”. He had been a close associate of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most notorious leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, who was killed in an airstrike two years ago.

Al-Qaeda was also bleeding support as allied Iraqi insurgents accepted an amnesty. It did not apply to Al-Qaeda. “If you are fighting to install sharia [Islamic law] on this country, you are going to have to be killed,” said Colonel David Brown, an American adviser to 2nd Division

Nevertheless, the speed of Al-Qaeda’s decline in Iraq – not only in the north but throughout the country – has taken many military strategists and observers by surprise.

US and Iraqi forces were then able to retake large swathes of the country and complete the “clearing” of cities such as Ramadi and Falluja and large areas of Baghdad. The overall number of attacks in Iraq has fallen by 80% in the past year alone.

Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, has gone on in recent months to reassert control over Basra in the south and Baghdad’s Sadr City, the two main strongholds of the Shi’ite Mahdi Army.

The last word was left to the beleaguered people of Mosul. Sa’ad Aziz, 47, stood in his shop, with ice-cream in the freezer and fizzy drinks and sweets on the shelves, watching the search for the Zanjali bomb in virtual darkness because there was no electricity.

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Iraqis lead final purge of Al-Qaeda - Times Online

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:47:55 -0000

A huge operation to crush the 1,200 fighters who remained from a terrorist force once estimated at more than 12,000 began on May 10.

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Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister, who has also led a crackdown on the Shi’ite Mahdi Army in Basra and Baghdad in recent months, claimed yesterday that his government had “defeated” terrorism.

A huge operation to crush the 1,200 fighters who remained from a terrorist force once estimated at more than 12,000 began on May 10.

The number of foreign fighters coming over the border from Syria to bolster Al-Qaeda’s numbers is thought to have declined to as few as 20 a month, compared with 120 a month at its peak

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VIDEO 2 of 2 -- Riz Khan - Al-Qaeda - 10 Jun 08 - Part 2

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:14:18 -0000

Muslims need to inform their unedcuated brothers and sisters that joining a terrorist cult is not what the prophet has said to do.

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U.S. Cites Big Gains Against Al-Qaeda

Fri, 30 May 2008 13:23:34 -0000

Thank the Iraqi for learning who their enemies are in Iraq. The Sunni turned from Al Qaeda their enemy to the coalition their friends to rid Iraq of terrorist.

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he would not discuss CIA operations in the area,

use the word 'ideologically' -- as a lot of the Islamic world pushes back on their form of Islam," he said.

it is too early to tell whether the gains are permanent

Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where the tempo of Predator strikes

experts note the lack of success in the U.S. effort to capture bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

remote region where the U.S. military is officially forbidden to operate.

The Bush administration has been watching political developments in Pakistan with apprehension, worried that the country's newly elected leadership will not be as tolerant of occasional unilateral U.S. strikes against al-Qaeda as was the government of President Pervez Musharraf, a close ally in the U.S. fight against terrorism.

Hayden

brokered with Pakistan's new leaders

comfortable with the authorities we have."

Predator strikes that killed terrorist leaders Abu Laith al-Libi and Abu Sulayman al-Jazairi in Pakistan.

he said he is concerned that the progress against al-Qaeda could be halted or reversed because of what he considers growing complacency

The fact that we have kept [Americans] safe for pushing seven years now has got them back into the state of mind where 'safe' is normal," he said. "Our view is: Safe is hard-won, every 24 hours."

"focused less on the threat and more on the tactics the nation has chosen to deal with the threat" --

steadily rising competence of the Iraqi military and a growing popular antipathy toward jihadism.

the insurgency is viewed locally as "more and more a war of al-Qaeda against Iraqis,

ited the recent writings of prominent Sunni clerics -- including some who used to support al-Qaeda -- criticizing the group for its indiscriminant killing of Muslim civilians.

U.S. military commanders and intelligence officials deserve some of the credit for the shift, because they "created the circumstances" for it by building strategic alliances with Sunni and Shiite factions, he said.

progress in Iraq is being undermined by increasing interference by Iran,

"It is the policy of the Iranian government, approved at the highest levels of that government, to facilitate the killing of American and other coalition forces in Iraq. Period," he said.

Bush says that he will deal with this constant infterference by iran in Iraq. Bush has ordered the defense dept here in America to prepare for a military strike against Iran. posted by liveinfreedom

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Middle East Online

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:40:06 -0000

The government elected by the Iraqi people is asserting the power given it by the people of Iraq

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Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:38:03 -0000

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Freedom for the people of the world is America/s goal to achieve for ALL people of the world IF they demand to be free from opprssive govenments.
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