al-Qaeda is on the run and Iraq has turned the corner. We can see it in the daily news on how many al-Qaeda are being rounded up, and the statements being made by Muslim leaders. Some headlines you won’t see in the major US SurrenderMedia:

Over the past few days we have been decimating the ranks of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Especially in one raid in central Baghdad, based on tips from locals.

The military was acting on intelligence when it launched the raids against the terror network in the volatile Fadhil neighborhood in central Baghdad.

“We managed during the past four days to put the area under siege, to kill 48 terrorists from al-Qaeda and to force the others to flee,” Brigade General Qassim al-Moussawi, Baghdad’s military spokesman said, adding the slain militants had been buried in a nearby cemetery.

In this story we see more areas of al-Qaeda control being cleared. In this story we read about the latest al-Qaeda leader killed in Iraq.

So how is this all playing out in the region? Interestingly al-Qaeda’s actions seems to be a bonding force between moderate Sunni and Shiites factions:

HEZBOLLAH, THE Iranian-backed Lebanese Shia militant group, is arming, training and financing a Palestinian Sunni militia inside Lebanon’s most violent refugee camp, tasked with controlling the rise of al-Qaeda fighters, many of them veterans of the sectarian war in Iraq.

In an interview with the Sunday Herald inside Ain al-Hilweh camp near the southern port city of Sidon, Sheikh Abu Ayoub, a commander of Ansar Allah (Followers of God), said his Palestinian group was leading a security force to expel foreign jihadis and prevent a repeat of the devastating summer conflict between Sunni extremists and the Lebanese army in the northern Nahr al-Bared refugee camp.

Has al-Qaeda become that so toxic even Hezbollah is taking up arms against them? I predicted al-Qaeda would be to Muslims something akin to what the Nazis were to the Jews, given the brutality and number of atrocities and massacres al-Qaeda has inflicted on Muslims. But this even surprises me.

And now we find firebrand Islamists chastising Bin Laden in public forums:

It is no secret that the Salafist MP had expressed his appreciation for Osama’s Jihadist experiences and his former services to the Islamic nation in Afghanistan: “And for the time, money and effort spent for the sake of God Almighty, we ask God not to let that effort go to waste”,….

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The MP’s problem with Osama Bin Laden is that he had not consulted scholars or preachers in his actions and that “Al Qaeda’s actions have harmed Islamic endeavors and Islamic Daawa all over the world.”

More advice of this “kind” stated that Al Qaeda’s “absolute” war against the Iraqi police force led to the dominance of the Shia in the security forces, (the term he used was “one sectarian color”) and that threats by the leader of Al Qaeda towards the Americans will encourage Bush to prolong his stay in Iraq, according to the political analysis of the MP who represents the academic Salafist Movement in Kuwait.

The disaster which al-Qaeda has wrought is becoming clear to even the extremists, including the Shiite extremists in Iraq:

Two prominent Iraqi Shia leaders have agreed to stop fighting each other, and go after the terrorists (both foreign and local Sunni and Shia radicals). Abdul Aziz al Hakim, who commands the Badr Brigade, and Muqtada al Sadr, who controls the Mahdi army, have made peace, for now.

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With the U.S. organizing Sunni Arab militias and tribal alliances to destroy al Qaeda in Iraq, the two Shia leaders see themselves losing much popularity if their militias concentrate on fighting each other, instead of crushing the hated al Qaeda, and other Sunni terrorists. Moreover, the fighting between the Badr Brigade and the Mahdi army was getting uglier, with assassinations and gun battles in the streets. These two radical Shia groups were losing popularity, and faced government efforts to disarm them.

Actually, they faced the same grassroots backlash that took down al-Qaeda. Tribes across Iraq are standing up and demanding an end to the mindless bloodshed, and signing up to destroy Sunni and Shiite extremists to ensure that happens. The fact is Islamo Fascism may have run its ugly course. What al-Qaeda and other extremists did to fellow Muslims was a wake up call to the broader Muslim community that these animals only wanted to dominate, not enlighten. History is going to be writing a very different epitaph to the Iraq war than most people realize right now.