Posted on 09/13/2007 6:16:15 PM PDT by bw17
By Jim Miklaszewski Chief Pentagon correspondent NBC News Updated: 7:26 p.m. ET Sept 12, 2006
Jim Miklaszewski Chief Pentagon correspondent • Profile WASHINGTON - A new military intelligence report offers up the most pessimistic assessment yet of military prospects for al-Anbar province, the vast no-man's land in western Iraq that has seen some of the fiercest fighting of the war — from hard-hit Fallujah to the provincial capital Ramadi, which the U.S. military has never controlled.
A top secret report by a Marine Corps intelligence officer says there's no chance the U.S. military can end insurgent violence in al-Anbar, and no viable government institutions or chance for political progress anytime soon.
Even more ominous, military officials say al-Qaida in Iraq has rushed to fill that political vacuum. Military officials tell NBC News al-Qaida's also recruiting increasing numbers of Iraqi Sunnis into the terrorist group.
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how welcomed this report was by the leftists that day; try to find one that remembers it today
Lol I remember reading this article. I wonder if that Marine Corps intelligence officer has been reasigned to cleaning out heads (restrooms) for a living.
Thank you very much for the reminder of how much things have changed.
Well, MSNBC broadcasts leftist garbage.
The article didn’t say if the Marine was active duty or a former Marine. It could have been Murtha.
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