01/17/2007
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(0.05 seconds)Al Qaeda terrorists are fleeing Baghdad
If Congress kept their mouth shut they wouldn't have had time to
leave.
"Al Qaeda terrorists are fleeing Baghdad in advance of President
Bush's 21,500-man troop surge, according to a senior military
intelligence officer today. Under orders from the al Qaeda commander in
Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, fighters are streaming toward the Diyala
region of Iraq....The apparent evacuation of Baghdad by al Qaeda forces
comes from direct orders issued by al-Masri, the former soldier who
took control of the Iraqi wing of al Qaeda following the June 2006
bombing death of Zarqawi.
Initially, the Baghdad-based AQ fighters did not want to leave.
Al-Masri had to send unequivocal orders for their retreat, adding that
one of the lessons from the Fallujah campaign was that Americans have
learned how to prevail in house-to-house fighting. Masri said that
remaining in Baghdad was a 'no-win situation' for the
terrorists......
......"In more than ten years of reading al Qaeda intercepts, I've
never seen language like this," the intelligence officer said.
Usually, al Qaeda communications are full of bravado and false
confidence, he added.....
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