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[The Long War Journal] Iraqi forces detained al Qaeda's 'Ruler of Baghdad' - The Long War ...: After the death of Abu Musab al Zarqawi in June 2006, Al Masri was appointed by Ayman al Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, to lead al Qaeda in Iraq. Al Masri in turn appointed Baghdadi the head of the Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda's attempt to establish a political and Iraqi dimension to its foreign-led terror campaign.

[Rohit Kumar's Views] Bush, oil and the Iraq war « Rohit Kumar's Views: Reporters from the prestigious New York Times were either bought or duped into writing false stories in their influential newspaper and reluctant cabinet members such as Colin Powell were dragged into the administration’s web of lies because their credibility was the currency needed to buy support for war at home and abroad.

[NewsReal Blog] More Post-Election Carnage In Baghdad | NewsReal Blog: So, the August troop draw-down is still on schedule.  What will our military forces leave behind in Iraq?  Well, I could speculate, but I won’t.  We will just have to wait and see if this political-religious situation stabilizes or if it descends into another full-blown sectarian Civil War when our troops evacuate.

[The Long War Journal] 67 killed in bombings in Baghdad and Anbar - The Long War Journal: Al Qaeda in Iraq’s founder, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, who was killed in a US strike in June 2006, had insisted that al Qaeda’s best chance at destroying the Iraqi government and imposing an Islamic state was to fan the sectarian flames. Zarqawi made the argument to al Qaeda's central leadership that the Shia must be viciously targeted, even if it meant a full-blown war against the Shia.

[Political Wrinkles] Two Top Qaeda Leaders in Iraq Are Reported Killed in a Raid ...: Al Qaeda would “probably seek to leverage the contacts and capabilities of al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI), its most visible and capable affiliate,” for an attack on the U.S. Never mind that one of Bin Laden’s top deputies, Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, was a liaison to AQI and was captured by the CIA en route to —

[Nick Carey] Military gains seen eroding Iraq al Qaeda strength | Journalist ...: “The information (that) security forces gather when they capture or kill leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq leads to other leaders. And the more leaders they kill, the more Iraqis will come forward with intelligence on the others out there.”

[Friends with Feathers] The Inertia of Power | Friends with Feathers: Its drift is the accomplishment that Mr Post, a 28-year CIA operative, was exactly active in the picking and choosing of information ordered by the presidency to make its crate, more than being allowed to take hold of the more correct and responsible plan of reviewing all matter and arriving at purpose conclusions. (Lest someone attempts to accuse Mr Caryatid of being a bureaucratic malcontent, he was installed on the personnel as a replacement for Protection Studies at the prestigious Georgetown University straightway after his adaptation from the CIA.)

[The Best Defense] Thoughts on Iraq - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense: Since al-Qaeda in Iraq has been from the beginning an odd organization -- obviously the founders of al-Qaeda were mystified by its original appearance and claim to the al-Qaeda name -- news that this rump or trade mark thief has been taking some hits recently is hard to assess. But one lesson we can draw from the repeated claimed successes at assassinating Taliban leaders in Pakistan: kill one Taliban leader, and another steps forward promptly.

[What's Pissed Me Off] What's Pissed Me Off » Blog Archive » Was the war on terrorism ...: Lawrence Wilkerson who was Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff in the Bush administration may have .Rather than bring terrorists to justice, it has cultivated anti-Western feeling and magnetized extremists disgruntled over the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan that were waged under the war on terror's banner.

[Ghalib Sultan's Blog] When Will Israel Attack the U.S. ”” Again? « Ghalib Sultan's Blog: Thus the need to create a widely held belief around Iraqi WMD, Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda, Iraqi meetings in Prague, Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories and Iraq’s purchase of uranium from Niger. Though all five “facts”

[Proudneocon] al-Qaeda in Iraq decapitated: An Egyptian native, Abdul-Monim al-Badawi, better known by his pseudonyms Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, joined the Muslim Brotherhood and in 1982 joined Egyptian Islamic Jihad, becoming the protege of future al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri. In 1999, the year after Egyptian Islamic Jihad was absorbed by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, Masri traveled to Afghanistan and trained under bin Laden.

[At War] Dead? Again? - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The capture or demise of the two leaders ”” Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri ”” was heralded numerous times before by Iraqi authorities, turning the duo into the butt of jokes and even earning one Iraqi official the namesake of “the liar of Baghdad.”

[The Common Ills] The non-withdrawal, the non-election « The Common Ills: And forget as well the fact that our invasions and wars have proven thunderously destructive, bringing chaos, misery, and death in their wake, and turning, for instance, the health care system of Iraq, once considered an advanced country in the Arab world, into a disaster zone (that -- it goes without saying -- only we Americans are now equipped to properly fix). Similarly, while regularly knocking off Afghan civilians at checkpoints on their roads and in their homes, at their celebrations and at work, we ignore the fact that our invasion and occupation opened the way for the transformation of Afghanistan into the first all-drug-crop agricultural nation and so the planet's premier narco-nation.

[Will Blog for Food] Will Blog for Food: Why We Won't Leave Afghanistan or Iraq: The reality that dare not speak its name in Washington is this: no matter what might happen in an Afghanistan that lacked us -- whether (as in the 1990s) the various factions there leaped for each other's throats, or the Taliban established significant control, though (as in the 1990s) not over the whole country -- the stakes for Americans would be minor in nature.  Not that anyone of significance here would say such a thing.

Mudville Gazette: First off, I want to personally thank my wonderful Soldier's Angels (Lil' Sis and Granny) who provided the skateboards for the kids. They were great and the kids will wear the little wheels off of them before they give them up!

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