Posted on 03/11/2007 11:53:15 PM PDT by jmc1969
There is always a moment during a raging battle when one side realizes that the field has been won, and the other side collapses in retreat and confusion. The curious thing about the Iraqi insurgency is that this moment has arrived, yet both the victors, in this case the Americans and the Iraqi government, and the losers, Al-Qaeda and the other jihadist groups, are reluctant to acknowledge it.
But make no mistake, the battle has been turned and we are witnessing the beginning of a jihadist meltdown.
Six months ago, many of the strategists behind the Sunni insurgency, faced with a more effective counterinsurgency effort, began to wonder just how long they could keep their momentum given their diminishing resources and talent. These strategists realized that their "resistance" would just peter out over time, as classical insurgencies tend to do. Some argued that, given one last push, the Americans would be sufficiently distressed to grab at cease-fire negotiations that would end with a hasty American withdrawal, leaving the insurgents to work things out with a much-weakened Iraqi government on more favorable terms.
Others, like Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the organization founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, saw that there was no future for their vision of establishing a Talibanlike state should these negotiations with the Americans get underway, which would only serve to strengthen the hand of the rival insurgent factions that counsel this course.
This sense that they were running out of time compelled Al-Qaeda to take a bold initiative of declaring the establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq four months back, appointing the hitherto unknown Abu Omar al-Baghdadi as its head.
But this was a fatal strategic mistake for Al-Qaeda, a mistake that threatens to pull down all the other jihadist insurgent groups along with it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Suicide Bomber Kills 39 at Iraqi Mosque
A suicide truck bomber sent a deadly storm of metal, stone and jagged plaster through worshippers leaving a Sunni mosque Saturday, killing at least 39 in a possible sign of escalating internal Sunni battles between insurgents and those who oppose them.
The motive for the attack was not immediately clear. But it carried the hallmarks of an increasingly bloody struggle for control of Anbar province _ a hotbed of anti-U.S. guerrillas since the uprising in Fallujah in 2004 that galvanized the insurgency.
U.S. military envoys and pro-government leaders have worked hard to sway clan chiefs and other influential Anbar figures to turn against the militants, who include foreign jihadists fighting under the banner of al-Qaida in Iraq. The extremists have fought back with targeted killings and bombings against fellow Sunnis.
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2903363010179638800933231257933592680597
He speaks of the Sunni crazies, and may well be right about them but ignores the Shi'a nuts.
The Surge along with Sistani and Maliki's backing has forced the Shia militias to disband for the time being.
The Shia against Sunni violence in Iraq has dropped to almost nothing the past two months. We are where we were pretty much before al-Qaeda blew up the mosque in Samarra.
Get Glenn Beck on it.
ping
I'd like to see his sources for the percentage breakdown of attacks from Al Qaeda, Ba'athists, Ansar al Sunna, etc.
If his article is fact-based, then it's a welcome breath of fresh air.
The Sunni-Al Qaeda groups are the much larger terrorists. They slaughter Shi'ites wholesale via bombs. I would have to think hard about any bombings done by Shiites. Shiite death squads have killed Sunnis but nothing like the mass murder perpetrated by Sunni/Al Qaeda terrorists
The Rats don't see this as "America at war", they see it as "Bush at war". To them the country's interest no longer matter - only whether or not they're in power.
Nice to hear the sound of silence from the likes of Lurch, Swimmer and that ugly Murtha Furka.
Both groups have bloodstained pasts. Remember that the Shiite mullahs of Teheran are probably America's most intense enemies on the planet right now, and close behind China and a re-Sovietizing Russia as longer-term threats.
Izzies are throwing down big bucks, $50-150,000, to build real bomb shelters with two-foot-thick roofs on them, shades of the fifties and "duck and cover," because of the mullahs and their wild-eyed religious fanaticism.
Remember that, Shiite or Sunni, the caliphs of that region wouldn't bother to get out of bed, in the old days, on any day they felt they weren't up to killing 100,000 Hindus.
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A little information about the author...FYI:
http://mes.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=Kazimi
A nice way to start the day. Insurgents eating their own.
"Things have deteriorated to the point where these other jihadist groups have begun informing on the whereabouts of Al Qaeda's leaders and local headquarters to the Iraqi government, so that American and Iraqi forces could raid these locations and arrest those who only recently were fellow insurgents of the guys now snitching.
Love it!"
Paired up with the other dominant thread in the comments:
Will the jihadists rat out an actual conspiracy relationship with the US media and the Democrat Party?
Kind of like when the Iraqui diplomat, being whisked away from Washington just as the war started, began effusively thanking one of the reporters, on camera, (I think he was either from CNN or MSNBC) for all they "tried to accomplish together" or some similar words, while the reporter was backing away in abject horror.
Or is this just a "very satisfying" dream?
Indeed, and thanks for the ping
Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!
A bunch of hungry hyena's chewing each other to pieces....
Pass the popcorn please...!!
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