PJ O'Donovan wrote:
> 01/17/2007
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> Results 1-5 of about 31 for 'Al-Qaeda-terrorists-are-fleeing-Baghdad'
> (0.05 seconds)Al Qaeda terrorists are fleeing Baghdad
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> If Congress kept their mouth shut they wouldn't have had time to
> leave.
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> "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.
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> 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......
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> ......"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.....
Of course, the fact that most Sunnis in the Baghdad region are now
organising themselves to fight the Shia militia, and telling the Al
Qaeda fanatics to get stuffed, might have something to do with it.....
They won't fight the Amercans if they keep out of Sunni areas. But if
the Americans sweep these areas in company with Shia units, there will
be trouble.
Al Qaeda in Iraq is still largely an irrelevance.
Dr. Barry Worthington
P.S. What has this posting to do with European Travel? O'Donovan, you
are an idiot.
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