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The Gangs of Iraq Are Killing Each Other Off
Strategy Page ^ | November 23, 2007

Posted on 11/25/2007 10:08:24 AM PST by george76

The Gangs of Iraq are killing each other off. What it has come down to is the gangs, militias and organizations that have been making a living planting roadside bombs and carrying out contract hits on American and Iraqi troops for the last three years, are being defeated by tribal and community groups fed up with the constant violence. ...

Religious leaders, who often took fees for allowing their mosques to be used as armories and safe houses, also preached against the heretical Shia, who now ruled the country. Now the pro-peace Sunni Arab clergy have displaced the pro-violence imams, and established their own "Council of Religious Scholars" to prove it.

Generally unnoticed over the last two years was a growing revolt within the Sunni Arab community. The Sunni Arab nationalists, the guys who supported Saddam and what he represented, did not have the backing of all Sunni Arabs. Neither did Saddam. And after Saddam fell, the fighting between Sunni Arabs began. Many Sunni Arabs greeted the Americans, and the prospect of democracy, with enthusiasm. ...

The tipping point occurred this year, as the anti-terrorist Sunni Arabs became numerous enough to defeat the terrorist groups.

Lots of Iraqis already in America, and they tell the folks back in the old country that there have been no Islamic terrorist bombs going off in America since September 11, 2001.

It's safe in America, and it's getting safer in Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at strategypage.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arabs; iraq; saddam; sunni; sunniarab; terroristgroups; terrorists; wot
ht glenn
1 posted on 11/25/2007 10:08:26 AM PST by george76
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To: george76
The Gangs of Iraq are killing each other off.

Good. Let them have at it. Maybe they'll be so busy fighting each other, they'll leave everyone else alone.

2 posted on 11/25/2007 10:13:57 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: elhombrelibre; jveritas; Ernest_at_the_Beach

More Iraqis, especially the kids, come out to practice their English.


3 posted on 11/25/2007 10:15:09 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
The Gangs of Iraq are killing each other off.

Great news. Can we get the gangs here at home to do the same?

- John

4 posted on 11/25/2007 10:15:41 AM PST by Fishrrman
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To: george76

The Gangs of Iraq Are Killing Each Other Off ...

great news...tell it to the lib/dems....

now...get the bloods & crips to start doing the same in the US!!!


5 posted on 11/25/2007 10:17:42 AM PST by nyyankeefan
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To: george76

The War is Ending and Victory is Here, now for the Real Enemy.

Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops


6 posted on 11/25/2007 10:17:44 AM PST by bray (Let's Bring Christ Back to Christmas)
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To: george76
The Gangs of Iraq Are Killing Each Other Off

Ah, brings back fond memories of the original TV series of
"Mission: Impossible".

Especially this sort of typical plot synopsis:

Trabants for transport of operatives around East Berlin: $1000.
Building fake tunnel out of East Berlin to dupe Communist agents: $1200
Loading up numbered bank box to look like Communist Spy-master is
getting paid bribes to tunnel East Germans to West Berlin: $2000
Getting Communist Spy-Master executed by his own side: PRICELESS
7 posted on 11/25/2007 10:21:18 AM PST by VOA
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To: Fishrrman
Can we get the gangs here at home to do the same?

Have you been reading the news out of just about every large city in the US? It's certainly happening in many of them.

8 posted on 11/25/2007 10:21:41 AM PST by Bob
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To: Fishrrman

Actually, they are. Just not in sufficient numbers and to the level of efficiency we would like to see.


9 posted on 11/25/2007 11:11:04 AM PST by Jagdgewehr (Hunter '08)
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To: CAP; SolidWood; pissant; tobyhill; ASC2006; bnelson44; Valin; rlmorel; Polybius; HAL9000; ...

Thanks for the ping, george76.


10 posted on 11/25/2007 11:54:44 AM PST by elhombrelibre (It's not easy being a Run Paul defeatist on Iraq, but a few annoying freepers work at it.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Excellent!


11 posted on 11/25/2007 12:26:19 PM PST by MNJohnnie (What drug pushers do with drugs, politicians do with government subsides)
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