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Iraq
UPI: al-Qaida of Mesopotamia fleeing Iraq for Africa
2008-07-09
Iraqi officials at the Ministry for National Security Affairs said documents uncovered in suspected al-Qaida holdouts in the Sunni areas of Baghdad 'prove these elements left Iraq for Somalia and Sudan.'

'Our intelligence information indicates the withdrawal of certain groups of al-Qaida from Iraq because of the military strikes,' Maj. Gen. Hussain Ali Kamal of the Iraqi Interior Ministry told Gulf News. 'I believe this is the beginning of the complete withdrawal of al-Qaida from Iraqi territory,' he said.
Posted by:3dc

#6  HUmmm, let's see if I rmember any heraldry/
Black Fowl Rampant on field of checkerd green

Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-07-09 18:13  

#5  They're gonna go to where there's either a predetermined fall-back position, or an environment that's more amenable.
Posted by: Pappy   2008-07-09 12:19  

#4  Another day, another sh*thole billet for Al Q.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2008-07-09 11:40  

#3  The suckers in Iraq seem to have dried up for the most part. Time to head off to take advantage of others who haven't figured it out yet.
Posted by: gorb   2008-07-09 06:23  

#2  HMMMMMM > Wel-l-l, given my Afghan War cohort's OSama's recent threat agz the VATICAN and its new covert focii on CENTRAL ASIA from the ME, METHINKS THIS TITLE SHOULD BE "ATTACKING AFRICA", NOT FLEEING TO AFRICA.

PROTECTING NUCLEAR IRAN + FUTURE NUCLEAR JIHAD, etc > CONTAINING/KEEPING THE US, ISRAEL, EUROS, etc. AT THE BEACHES AMAP AFAP ALAP FROM IRAN + CENTRAL ASIA.

2008-2012 > US SLEEPS [Back in CONUS], IRAN + ISLAMISTS PEEP AND SWEEP [attack, destabilize].

Lest we fergit, SUN TZU [paraph] > THE ENEMY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR STRENGTHS OR WEAKNESSES, OF YOUR SHIELD, ARMY, CAMP, LEADERSHIP, ....etc.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-07-09 00:41  

#1  "Have gun, will travel. Curly-toed Kalashnikovs, don't fail us now!"
Posted by: Seafarious   2008-07-09 00:32  

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