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Intercepted Letter Shows Al Qaeda Weakened in Iraq
Fox News ^ | September 10, 2008

Posted on 09/10/2008 8:56:33 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah

U.S. General David Perkins told FOX News Wednesday that the military has intercepted a letter in which senior Al Qaeda operatives reveal their fury over militants' failure to keep up with the campaign against U.S.-led forces in Iraq.
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The letter blasts Al Qaeda in Iraq for failing to maintain communication and for poorly-planned attacks. Al Qaeda leaders also slam operatives for sending fighters into battle alone, without direction.

Al-Zawahiri also criticizes them for posting videos online using archive footage of violent attacks, yet presenting them as new evidence of their success.

The letter reads, "[Aby Ayyub al-Masri]... is not strong enough to bear this great great responsibility, and is weak at [...] decision making. He is weak [...] he is totally isolated [..] this is affecting his grip on reality."

The United States military said Al Qaeda in Iraq responded to the criticism with claims of being financially cut off, and unable to recruit capable new members.

Perkins told FOX News the communications show that Al Qaeda in Iraq is "psychologically bankrupt,” and that it cannot raise meaningful support within in the country. He added that the numbers of Al Qaeda operatives in Iraq are a third of what they were previously. When asked what those levels were, Perkins would not release numbers.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 7thanniversary; alqaeda; iraq; islam; mohammedanism

1 posted on 09/10/2008 8:56:34 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
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To: Ooh-Ah

United States military kicking butt! Outstanding job!


2 posted on 09/10/2008 9:01:24 PM PDT by notaliberal (Christ Our Hope!)
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To: Ooh-Ah

Good news.


3 posted on 09/10/2008 9:02:30 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Ooh-Ah
Thanks for posting!

Keep it up guys! We have the BEST military in the world and the Coalition of Liberty is awesome!!!

LET'S ROLL.. onward!

4 posted on 09/10/2008 9:09:01 PM PDT by NordP (PALIN POWER: She's Ronald Reagan in heels & Teddy Roosevelt in a dress!)
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To: Ooh-Ah

I thought we were in a quagmire?


5 posted on 09/10/2008 9:09:37 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Ooh-Ah

Kind of funny, really

Zawahiri, hiding out in the luxury of an underground cave in Pakistan, telling the few dumb asses still in Iraq who don’t have a hellfire missile coming through their window, they have got to try harder against the US military.


6 posted on 09/10/2008 9:12:43 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: max americana


I thought we were in a quagmire?

Now that an experienced and calm hand like Sec Def Robert Gates says
we’re now in the “endgame” of Iraq...and he means “end of game” for
the Islamic terrorists there...

I suspect the word “quagmire” will be re-deployed by the MSM to Afgahanistan.


7 posted on 09/10/2008 9:13:42 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Ooh-Ah

“Thunder Run” Perkins bump.


8 posted on 09/10/2008 9:13:50 PM PDT by Ben Hecks (McCain/Palin: I'll pick two pilots over two lawyers anytime)
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To: max americana

Do you know the definition of quagmire max? It means a position in which extraction is difficult. By that definition we are in one, of sorts. But we are not unsuccessful in our mission to reduce the influence of terrorists in Iraq. So we are not in the midst of a deterioration or fiasco as the media would like us to believe.


9 posted on 09/10/2008 9:18:36 PM PDT by phoenix0468 (Let freedom ring.)
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To: VOA

>I suspect the word “quagmire” will be re-deployed by the MSM to Afgahanistan.<

The MSM have already labelled that war: The Forgotten War. I don’t call Afghanistan, forgotten but intentionally’ ignored by the MSM.


10 posted on 09/10/2008 9:24:09 PM PDT by max americana
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To: PGR88

lol

Gen. Custer comes to mind...


11 posted on 09/10/2008 9:26:09 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (If the election were today, Obama would win.........in Europe.)
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To: Ooh-Ah
But, this idiot said the war was "lost."
12 posted on 09/10/2008 9:29:28 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
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To: Ooh-Ah

Oops, wrong letter.

Cheers!

13 posted on 09/10/2008 9:45:16 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Ooh-Ah

14 posted on 09/10/2008 10:12:28 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: Dog

AQ has fallen and it can’t get up.


15 posted on 09/10/2008 11:17:54 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Ooh-Ah

No way. Debbie Wassermann Schultz (Socialist-Florida) just said this week the war in Iraq was “hopeless”.


16 posted on 09/11/2008 2:08:25 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (Just say NObama!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
No way. Debbie Wassermann Schultz (Socialist-Florida) just said this week the war in Iraq was “hopeless”.

She did? Just this week? How freakin' clueless.

What has been happening in Iraq over the past few months is beautiful. Amazing.

Baghdad has come roaring back to life.

17 posted on 09/11/2008 2:10:37 AM PDT by Allegra ("Spare me the phony outrage." -B.O. Sept. 10, 2008)
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To: Allegra
All: if you want a terrific book on Iraq, 2005-2007, it's Michael Yon's Moment of Truth in Iraq. He is quite critical of the Bush administration in the early years, supportive of the "surge," but provides a MUCH different view of how we are winning, block by block and neighborhood by neighborhood. He loves Petraeus.

He will disappoint those "turn it to glass" Freepers, and notes that the one thing Iraqi boys want to be more than anything else . . .

U.S. soldiers!

18 posted on 09/11/2008 3:44:48 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS
if you want a terrific book on Iraq, 2005-2007, it's Michael Yon's "Moment of Truth in Iraq."

I'll have to get that one on my next assault on Amazon.com. Those occur about every two weeks.

I try not to read too many books about Iraq while I'm here (reading is an escape), but have made exceptions on occasions. ;-)

19 posted on 09/11/2008 4:02:18 AM PDT by Allegra ("Spare me the phony outrage." -B.O. Sept. 10, 2008)
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