Reader Lawryn pointed me to this interesting article on events in Iraq. It seems the Iraqis are fed up with Al Qaeda and sending them packing, which is consistent with the Al Qaeda letter to Zarqawi that describes a backlash against Al Qaeda. Good news from Iraq, and of course it is not being shown […]

There was lots of speculation as to why Bahghdad was sent into a daytime, complete curfew this weekend. Much of the thinking was there was an imminent attack which had been detected. Apparently that thinking was correct: Iraqi forces placed Baghdad under a blanket curfew throughout Saturday after U.S. troops arrested a man suspected of […]

A naturalized US citizen has been arrested in Iraq and apparently was providing aid and support to our enemies: A naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran who was found in Iraq was indicted Friday on charges of providing support to a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the current Iranian regime, federal prosecutors said. Zeinab Taleb-Jedi, […]

In earlier post I linked to a drooling mad NY Times editorial where the Times goes off half crazed about the concept of declaring terrorists enemy combatants in a war and all that goes with that. I have been smiling all day because the Dems have decided to side with the terrorists and protect their […]

A major milestone has been achieved in Iraq’s path towards a peaceful democracy with the announcement of Sunni support to the Shia Prime Minister: Sunni tribal leaders who have vowed to drive al Qaeda out of Iraq’s most restive province met the Shi’ite premier on Wednesday, marking what Washington hopes will be a breakthrough alliance […]

[Warning: this is a long post analyzing the entire NIE release properly, without removing context or cherry-picking] The media is terrible at reading comprehension, as has been proven time and time again. From the erroneous reporting on the NSA’s Terrorist Surveillance Program (were they wrongly claimed the NSA was bypassing the NSA when in fact […]

Its official folks – if the Dems win the House they promise to surrender Iraq to Al Qaeda. (Hopefuly the link will work again – but Rangel is on the record promising to cut Iraq funding if the Dems win the House).

The British have scotched one of Al Qaeda’s major leaders in Iraq: BRITISH troops in Iraq said they had killed one of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s top global lieutenants, who escaped from a US prison in Afghanistan last year. Omar Faruq was shot dead while resisting arrest during a pre-dawn raid by about 200 […]

How else is one to take the latest Iraqi government request regarding the US efforts in Iraq: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, in an interview, asked for a long-term US military presence in Iraq, saying his country will need two permanent US air bases to deter “foreign interference.” “I think we will be in need of […]

Dr Rusty Shackleford at My Pet Jawa (damn I love that site name) has great news on the Iraq front with the capture of the head of Ansar al Sunna, Zarqawi’s old haunt before he became the Al Qaeda lead in Iraq (and possibly combined the two terrorist organizations – my speculation). Taking down the […]