The always worthwhile Michael Yon
“Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated,” according to Sheik Omar Jabouri, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the widespread and influential Jabouri Tribe. Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad, Sheik Omar said that al Qaeda had been “defeated mentally, and therefore is defeated physically,” referring to how clear it has become that the terrorist group’s tactics have backfired. Operatives who could once disappear back into the crowd after committing an increasingly atrocious attack no longer find safe haven among the Iraqis who live in the southern part of Baghdad. They are being hunted down and killed. Or, if they are lucky, captured by Americans.
Now THIS is certainly the kind of report the mainstream press will avoid like flat beer. Consider the implications of the last line, as a starter:
They are being hunted down and killed. Or, if they are lucky, captured by Americans.
Translation: The Americans will give captured al Qaeda better treatment… regardless what the anti-war nuts have to say on the point.
As to the rest, go ahead, and argue with me that no progress is being made, there. Nor does it look like that progress is going to backslide anytime soon:
During the meeting, another member of the Iraqi Islamic Party said that al Qaeda has changed its strategy now that fomenting civil war between Sunni and Shia has backfired. Al Qaeda has shifted targets, now trying to generate friction between tribes. This time, however, the tribes are onto the game early, and they are not playing.
From the mainstream press, silence. Ask yourself; Why would that be?
Nod: Memeorandum
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