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Maliki Cracks Down on the Sons of IraqWriting for the L.A. Times, Shawn Brimley and Colin Kahl have a disturbing report about the ongoing crackdown of Iraq’s Sunni population by the Maliki government. Much of Iraq’s dramatic security progress can be traced to a series of decisions made by Sunni tribal leaders in late 2... |
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"Al Qaeda in Iraq is Dead"Peter Bergen in a piece in The Outlook section in the Washington Post yesterday on al Qaeda's 20th anniversary had this to say about Iraq: Until 2006, hardcore European jihadists would have traveled to Iraq. But the numbers doing so now have dwindled to almost zero, according to several ... |
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Jihadis shift attention to war in AfghanistanAfghan and NATO officials are seeing a rise in numbers of foreign fighters in Afghanistan at the same time US officials say attacks by Al Qaeda in Iraq have sharply dropped. ... |
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John Bruhns: The Ticking Iraqi ClockAs an Iraq veteran it's very hard for me to grip the strong possibility that the troop surge in Iraq was all for naught. So recently I have been focusing on the successes of the surge in Iraq without political or ideological blinders. I recently wrote a piece to touch on a different angle than m... |
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Lieberman still confused about the war in IraqThe president spoke briefly this morning from the White House, heralding the “success of the surge” for creating “sustained progress” in Iraq. Soon after, Joe Lieberman announced that he and Lindsey Graham are “introducing a resolution recognizing the strategic succe... |
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Report: Al-Qaeda in Iraq chief now in AfghanistanWashington - The top leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq has left the country for Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported Thursday, citing named sources in both the Sunni militant group and the Iraqi military. The report quoted the group's local leader in F... ... |
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