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2007-03-30 Iraq

Official Blames Al Qaeda in Iraq for Death of Key Sunni Insurgent Leader

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "secret talks, which are believed to have been deadlocked over the demand that insurgents to lay down their arms and join the political process."

That is, they "deadlocked" over the refusal of the enemy to do the only thing that made the talks worth even having.

AMS has been begging for detention/extermination for a long time. As usual, the nitwit Shi'a can't seem to manage to do any actually useful killing - otherwise they'd have bumped off the whole AMS garbage collection. They're too busy grabbing people whose names are Omar or who don't have pictures of Ali in their taxis.

I'm likin' this red-on-red thing. There's nothing but upside for us and Iraq if AQ and the Sunnis kick the s**t out of each other.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-03-30 01:43|| 2007-03-30 01:43|| Front Page Top

#2 The killing of al-Dhari is likely to deepen the increasingly bloody rift between government supporters and opponents of Al Qaeda in the Sunni Arab communities west of Baghdad.

Why would this deepen the rift between 2 enemies of Al Qaeda, when Al Qaeda is the one who killed him.

Posted by Jesing Ebbease3087 2007-03-30 13:55|| 2007-03-30 13:55|| Front Page Top

#3 So the military leader of a major Sunni insurgent group, just killed in ambush, is the son of the Sheikh of some tribe in Abu Ghraib... where Saddam Hussein trusted the locals enough to build a major prison to house his enemies. That sounds more like a local feud than Al Qaeda getting rid of turncoat colleagues in the terror business.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-30 15:32|| 2007-03-30 15:32|| Front Page Top

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