The Great Escape

Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: 500 prisoners or more released from Abu Ghraib, the most secure prison in Iraq.

Global al Qaeda: Affiliates, objectives, and future challenges Testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, on al Qaeda, the nature of the group's central command and its relationship with its affiliates, and the future challenges the West faces in battling the terror organization. [more]

Are the Iraqi police incapable of contesting al Q? Yes, rhe reality is that they needed our support for longer – intell, other support. The US decided to leave [bug out], and that was that. AlQ senior leaders provide [moral support] . . . different paradigm from what's held in US intel community.

"Al Qaeda, an intl terrorist network" - "Hundreds of convicts, including senior members of al Qaeda, broke out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail as comrades launched a military-style assault to free them, authorities said on Monday. The deadly raid on the high-security jail happened as Sunni Muslim militants are re-gaining momentum in their insurgency against the Shiite-led government that came to power after the U.S. invasion to oust Saddam Hussein. Suicide bombers drove cars packed with explosives to the gates of the prison on the outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday night and blasted their way into the compound, while gunmen attacked guards with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. Other militants took up positions near the main road, fighting off security reinforcements sent from Baghdad as several militants wearing suicide vests entered the prison on foot to help free the inmates. [more]

1 posted on 07/23/2013 1:35:43 PM PDT by Hojczyk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQWOXbVq3sY&feature=player_embedded

With OBAMA it is now slipping away...only hope is they kill each other like Syria..

2 posted on 07/23/2013 1:37:42 PM PDT by Hojczyk

This is what Obama wanted, the same will happen
in Afghanistan and probably Detroit.

3 posted on 07/23/2013 2:40:14 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)

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