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

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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