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al-Qaeda weakening, Pelosi in denial

Posted 11 Feb 2008 in Democrats, jihadists, military, Nancy Pelosi, terrorism, victory, war

It’s nice to see continued reports of good news from Iraq. And that explains why we haven’t heard much from the Democrats about the war lately. Victory for America is bad for them, politically.

BAGHDAD — A diary and another document seized during U.S. raids show some Al Qaeda in Iraq leaders fear the terror group is crumbling, with many fighters defecting to American-backed neighborhood groups, the U.S. military said Sunday.

The military revealed two documents discovered by American troops in November: a 39-page memo written by a mid- to high-level Al Qaeda official with knowledge of the group’s operations in Iraq’s western Anbar province, and a 16-page diary written by another group leader north of Baghdad.

Click here for the English translation of the diary. (PDF)
Click here for the original version of the diary. (PDF)

In the Anbar document, the author describes an Al Qaeda in crisis, with citizens growing weary of militants’ presence and foreign fighters too eager to participate in suicide missions rather than continuing to fight, said Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, a U.S. military spokesman.

“We lost cities and afterward, villages… We find ourselves in a wasteland desert,” Smith quoted the document as saying.

The memo — believed to have been written in summer 2007 — cites militants’ increasing difficulty in moving around and transporting weapons and suicide belts because of better equipped Iraqi police and more watchful citizens, Smith said.

The surge is working: Al-Qaeda’s strength is waning daily, their morale is in the crapper, yet Nancy Pelosi keeps squawking that our efforts in Iraq are “a failure” and that the troop surge has “not produced the desired effect.” Funny, I though the desired effect of the troop surge was to defeat the terrorists, moving Iraq closer to self-sufficiency and freedom, and moving our soldiers closer to being able to come home for good.

Makes one wonder what Pelosi’s “desired effect” was. No wonder Congress’ approval rating is hitting a new low at 22%.

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