The Surge has completed much of its first phase objectives – to clear key areas of al-Qaeda. Anbar Province has remained quiet as Diyala Province, especially its capitol city Baquoba, is in the last stages of clearing out al-Qaeda: With almost no hostile fire reported in days, combat operations are winding down. The focus of […]

It seems President Ahmedinejad and his littel Napolean complex may have screwed up royally, unless Iran has a fleet of nuclear powered cars hanging around somewhere: Unrest spread in Tehran on Thursday, the second day of gasoline rationing in oil-rich Iran, with drivers lining up for miles, gas stations being set on fire and state-run […]

The insidious car bomb detected in London’s Picadilly Circus area is a bad omen on many fronts: Police thwarted an apparent terror attack early Friday after an ambulance crew reported seeing a smoking car parked near Piccadilly Circus that turned out to be packed with gasoline, nails, gas cylinders, and a detonator. The explosives – […]

al-Qaeda continues to take a beating in Iraq and incompetence is starting to show in their actions, meaning al-Qaeda must be scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of fighters and strategists: Killings, kidnaps and arrests marked a new bloody day in conflict-torn Iraq on Wednesday, with at least three Iraqis killed and 10 […]

Update: As if to prove my point about the vitriol spewing from the GOP, someone I admired for a long time has jumped the shark and proven what I said below. Today the MSM announced that yet another Republican has jumped ship and called for retreat from the war in Iraq. … Senator Lugar (channeling […]

I have posted many times on the suicidal idiocy of pulling our troops out of Iraq and giving al Qaeda a huge PR victory over the US which would inflame the Muslim communities for decades to come to. The Surrendercrats, as I like to call them, want to stop having to deal with Iraq. Especially […]

Iraq has turned a corner. a-Qaeda is being destroyed and, even worse, humiliated on the battlefield as they run from the battles and leave their troops to die. In comparison, the Iraqi forces are standing tall: he Iraqi soldiers and units working with the Multinational Division North are “holding firm,” the director of operations for […]

Update: Michael Yon is reporting in again and sees things on the ground basically the same way I have seen them distantly through the lense of the media: Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) had tarnished its name here by publicly attacking and murdering children, videotaping beheadings, all while imposing harsh punishments on Iraqi civilians found […]

al-Qaeda took a strike at those Iraqis who have been fighting back against their jack-boot tactics: A suicide bomber killed 12 people in the lobby of a busy Baghdad hotel on Monday, and the US military said six tribal leaders opposed to Al Qaeda were among the dead. It was one of four separate bombings […]

As al-qaeda is routed from its Iraq strongholds by Iraqis (see post below for the latest) they have to set their sights on something to show some progress in their jihad against the West and the moderate Arab states. Their plans to disable Lebanon have been thwarted for now by the Lebanese. So what is […]