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Twizted Humanitarian Crew
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 Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 2:32 pm
There is good news from Iraq, believe it or not. It comes from the most unlikely place: Anbar province, home of the Sunni insurgency. The level of violence has plummeted in recent weeks. An alliance of U.S. troops and local tribes has been very effective in moving against the al-Qaeda foreign fighters. A senior U.S. military official told me—confirming reports from several other sources—that there have been "a couple of days recently during which there were zero effective attacks and less than 10 attacks overall in the province (keep in mind that an attack can be as little as one round fired). This is a result of sheiks stepping up and opposing AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq] and volunteering their young men to serve in the police and army units there." The success in Anbar has led sheiks in at least two other Sunni-dominated provinces, Nineveh and Salahaddin, to ask for similar alliances against the foreign fighters. And, as TIME's Bobby Ghosh has reported, an influential leader of the Sunni insurgency, Harith al-Dari, has turned against al-Qaeda as well. It is possible that al-Qaeda is being rejected like a mismatched liver transplant by the body of the Iraqi insurgency.
IF we can methodically move throught he cities and towns of Iraq in such a manner than in time we can win the war in Iraq, which many have proclaimed a defeat in progress
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:50 pm
Finally some good news, I was beginning to wonder if the media was going to have to be put down like a rabid dog... xp
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Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 7:22 pm
its a good thing that there is good news coming from there, anbar is usaly the worst place.
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 6:21 am
that means we are winning if we have cleaned up Anbar we can clean up the whole thing.
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Twizted Humanitarian Crew
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 8:10 pm
True, and congress wanted to pull out... pfft. Looks like we're doing fine. (well not 'fine' in the regular sense, but fine in a war terminology)
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:03 pm
now we just need to get the shi'ite ands sunni's to settle there diffrances
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:13 pm
Is this likely to ever happen? They've been fighting ever since Mohammad died. If only Mohammed had chosen a successor....
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:59 pm
thenerdqueen Is this likely to ever happen? They've been fighting ever since Mohammad died. If only Mohammed had chosen a successor.... no, befor world war one they didint fight nearly as much and they lived almost in peace, but that was when they were part of the ottoman empire and they lived in three distinct provences but after the first world war the english grouped these three provences into Iraq and thats when the problems started and it would be hard to partition Iraq back into three countries because the kurd in the north have oil, the shia in the south have oil and the only sea port, but the sunni area in the middle has nothing not even a direct link to fresh water so they would keep fighting.
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