The fight against al Qaeda’s twisted brand of Islamo Fascism is running full bore across the world this weekend. While the Democrats and their media puppets try and surrender as much ground as possible, people are fighting and dying to win. In one very brief report out of Iraq, a local Imam who had spoken out against al Qaeda in the region triggered a bloody car bombing. 35 people died because this man dared challenge the fascists. And instead of calling for America to stand by these allies, the Democrats want to run and hide. We have Muslim and Iraq allies – many of them. In fact, they are the majority of the citizens of Iraq. We must find a way to support those calling for peaceful co-existence and to destroy those who kill indiscriminately.

We also have allies in the Middle East, governments who will fall to the Islamo Fascists first. These other Muslim allies are doing their part to uncover and eradicate the al Qaeda butchers:

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Jordanian intelligence aborts new al Qaeda network, points US attention to menace of Sinai and Gaza cells

February 25, 2007, 11:25 AM (GMT+02:00)

Osama bin Laden’s cells were planned for Jordan’s main cities, structured on the same lines as the Iraq and Gaza networks. The Jordanian group had a name: Al Qaeda in the Land of Crossed Rivers, just as the Iraq branch calls itself Land of the Two Rivers and the Palestinian branch, the Army of Islam or Brigades of the Islamic Sword.
DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report that Jordanian intelligence stumbled on the conspiracy by chance when a group of former contacts of Abu Musab al Zarqawi attempting to cross the Jordanian border to Syria were detained for questioning.

Make no mistake about it, we have both enemies and allies in this battle. One of the disturbing news items in this report is the implication Syria is hosting al Qaeda training facilities right outside Damascus:

They confessed they were heading for an Al Qaeda training camp on the outskirts of Damascus to prepare for a fresh round of attacks in Jordan and to set up a logistic rear command for pumping money, arms, explosives and fighting strength from Syria into Jordan.
It also transpired that the al Qaeda group awaiting them on the other side of the border was the cell which planned and carried out the Sept. 9, 2005 suicide attacks on three American-owned hotels in Amman, killing 60 people. That cell had functioned in Jordan in the time of the Iraqi al Qaeda commander Abu Musab al Zarqawi. The Jordanians had hoped his death in June 2006 would put an end to the jihadist terror looming over the kingdom. Now they see it hasn’t.

I don’t wish anyone harm in Jordan or Saudi Arabia or any other country which has been willing to work with the West, but this news is a good wakeup call to one and all. The battle is heating up, and this is not time to pull back and run away. In fact, the world and we should be considering whether it makes sense to increase efforts. What are we going to do about Syria, now that it seems to be a base of operations for al Qaeda across the ME? Will we and the region’s powers let this blatant act of war stand?

We have a once in a generation opportunity to make a difference. Along with the split in allegiances that are forming on the Arab street there are reports that the insurgents are fighting amongst themselves in Iraq – providing us an opportunity to exploit:

On Jan. 13, 2007, a letter from one of the most important Sunni insurgent groups in Iraq, Ansar al-Sunnah was sent to the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq complaining bitterly that his followers have been killing militants of other jihadi organizations, according to the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.

The letter is the latest indication that all is not well in the “Islamic State of Iraq” established by al Qaeda in Iraq and several other groups in October 2006.

The letter protests to the “Emir” of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), Abu Hamza al Muhajir, that some of the group’s militants are targeting members of other insurgent groups, including Ansar al-Sunnah, whenever they disagree with them. “We have warned you before about the behavior of some of your members,” says the letter, which criticizes AQI members for considering any Muslim who disagrees with them a non-believer.

The letter says this behavior has become common among al Qaeda in Iraq members, and the violence has become excessive.

The problem with fascism is there is limited room at the top to determine the authorized view of things. What we need to do is sow the seeds of more conflict and frustration amongst the various factions. What we DON’T want to do is give them a victory by abandoning Iraq en masse. The Democrat’s timing is uniquely and consistently dangerous. Right now is the worst time to ‘redeploy’ into a fetal position. Right now is the time to put pressure on. And the reason is al Qaeda seems to be getting more and more desperate. Not only is the Arab street starting to rise up in opposition to them, not only are there huge rifts in their ranks, but the US and her allies are making a difference. So much so it seems al Qaeda is ready to go for broke.

In my opinion, attacks on the West will destroy whatever validity is left in the radical anti-war movement and rouse public opinion to take action. Is al Qaeda smart enough to make this connection? I don’t know. But it seems they are doing their best to try and strike at our most stalwart ally, the United Kingdom:

THE terrorist threat facing Britain from home-grown al-Qaeda agents is higher than at any time since the September 11 attacks on America in 2001, secret intelligence documents reveal.

The number of British-based Islamic terrorists plotting suicide attacks against “soft” targets is far greater than the security services had previously believed, the government paperwork shows. It is thought the plotters could number more than 2000.

Under the heading “International Terrorism in the UK”, the document states: “The scale of al-Qaeda’s ambitions towards attacking the UK and the number of UK extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even greater than we had previously judged.”

It warns terrorist “attack planning” against Britain will increase this year, and adds: “We still believe that AQ [al-Qaeda] will continue to seek opportunities for mass casualty attacks against soft targets and key infrastructure. These attacks are likely to involve the use of suicide operatives.”

Everyone is watching what world leaders do now. While the threat in England is increasingly from home grown fanatics, the lid could be shut or thrown wide open depending what we collectively do now. The hounds of evil are waiting to see if the West will falter, will fall down. If we try and run from Iraq and the ME, they will rise up to help make sure the Islamo Fascist wave can spread as far as possible. But if we redouble our resolve and start taking serious action, it is they who may falter and hesitate. And we much do as many things as we can to clip the Islamo Fascist efforts to make progress. For example:

The Egyptian Information Ministry has decided to close down the Iraqi television station al-Zawraa, known as the voice of the Sunni “resistance fighters,” according to an Egyptian Gazette report published Sunday.

The ministry said that the transmission frequency of the channel, owned by former Iraqi politician Mishan al-Jabouri, interferes with other channels broadcast by the Egyptian satellite Nile Sat.

The ministry, in an official statement, cited “purely commercial reasons” for the closure, according to the newspaper.

A simple but effective act to curtail the message of al Qaeda. We should do more of these things as many places as we can. We should also take the war right to al Qaeda’s doorstep:

The U.S. military is preparing for a spring offensive against Sunni insurgents and Al Qaeda fighters in the lawless city of Ramadi as part of the troop surge to impose security in Iraq.

U.S. and Iraqi security forces are currently performing a security crackdown in Baghdad, where they have already killed more than 400 suspected militants, according to Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.

With the battle to secure the capital under way, the fight for control of Ramadi in Anbar province to the west will mark the second phase of the surge. The group Al Qaeda in Iraq has exerted a grip on the city and terrorised sheikhs cooperating with the Americans.

And we need to deal with Syria and Iran. Syria should be under severe economic sanctions for hosting al Qaeda training facilities. We need to put so much pressure on Syria it abandons its alliance with Iran. And Iran must never obtain nuclear weapons. The chemical attacks in Iraq using chlorine would look quaint in comparison to the damage possible from a nuclear jihadist. One thing is for sure, the pivot point is coming where we could tip this towards the future we all want. We need to divide and conquer at the street level, within the enemy factions and between the state sponsors. We cannot do this if we are in a fetal position in Okinawa waiting for our way of life to be aborted by fanatics.