[Cindy]

Thanks TexKat for the ping.
I appreciate it.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1730468/posts?page=1560#1560

[piasa]

Instead, al-Qaida in Iraq - the country's most feared Sunni Muslim militant group - lashed out at a string of Iraqi Sunni Arab politicians who held talks with Abdullah ahead of the summit.
"The traitors of Jordan's meetings, whether they know it or not, have entered today in a pact with Satan to fight the men of God," al-Qaida in Iraq said in its statement.

Sounds to me like alQaeda-in-Iraq knows what the US press refuses to admit- that the insurgency is floundering, its rats are leaving the terrorist ship, and the potential ones are refusing to get onboard.