I wonder why so many US media outlets are avoiding this like the plague
(Times Online) Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person’s face with piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of al-Qaeda in Iraq are daring to become informants for the US military in a hostile Baghdad neighbourhood.
The ground-breaking move in Doura is part of a wider trend that has started in other al-Qaeda hotspots across the country and in which Sunni insurgent groups and tribal sheikhs have stood together with the coalition against the extremist movement.
“They are turning. We are talking to people who we believe have worked for al-Qaeda in Iraq and want to reconcile and have peace,†said Colonel Ricky Gibbs, commander of the 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, which oversees the area.
Interestingly, I think we can thank some in the media for their stories, meant to assault Bush and the USA, which have highlighted the violence and horrific actions of AQ in Iraq, for what seems to be a tide switch.
I guess we can also throw some high fives out to the Defeatocrats, whose constant harping has inadvertently shown the Muslim fanatics that they really do not want to be associated with the serious AQ nutjobs.
A few others covering this are: And Rightly So!, Captain Ed
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It really isn’t much of a stretch to imagine this happening since they’re unable to make a dent in American forces and only seem to be able kill Iraqis. They’ve shown their own people that they’ll kill anyone and that includes fellow Muslims. They don’t have a cause nearly as much as they lust after blood.
That’s great news. Since the invasion, some critics of the war have doubted that democracy could take root in Iraq, but this seems to me to be less about a system of government per se, and more about whether Iraqis want a future for themselves and their children, or whether they’re interested in embracing a culture of death. This would seem to indicate the former–that’s good news in my book.
You know the MSM media may have felt that it was burned in the past by too optimistic forecasts of the impending defeat of al Qaeda. Regardless of how many #1s or #2s or lieutenants oremirs or whatever they have always been able to replace their loses and are now no less capable than they were in the past.
And of course it has never been al Qaeda that killed the most Americans, that would be the group that we refer to as Sunni insurgents.