Jul 15 2007
50 Diyala Tribal Leaders Meet To Fight al-Qaeda
Why is anyone still claiming we cannot win in Iraq when the entire country is taking up arms against al-Qaeda? Why is anyone even considering a withdrawal of forces on the verge of a huge military, political and PR success? When 50 tribal leaders meet in one Iraq Province to fight al-Qaeda and get their country back on track no one should be still thinking the Islamo Fascists have support, let alone speak for the people of the ME:
Thirteen suspected al Qaeda operatives were captured during Iraq operations yesterday and today. Meanwhile, about 50 tribal leaders from the Muqdadiya Qada in Diyala province, Iraq, gathered at the governor’s house yesterday to discuss security, services and the importance of unity with U.S. and Iraqi military leaders, officials reported.
At the meeting, Diyala Gov. Ra’ad Hameed Al-Mula Jowad Al-Tamimi, together with Staff Maj. Gen. Abdul Kareem, commander of Iraqi Security Forces in Diyala; and Col. David W. Sutherland, commander of coalition forces in Diyala, stressed the influence tribal leaders have on their people.
“We came here to achieve something great, and this great thing is your tribal influence on your people,” said Kareem.
“I have seen the greatness of the sheiks,” said Sutherland, “I have seen the greatness they can bring. The courage of the tribes is based on the courage of the sheiks, many of whom are disgusted and disillusioned by the hatred al Qaeda brings.”
Citing examples from the Koran and Iraq’s history, Kareem emphasized that “everybody in Diyala is supposed to be united – to work as one hand fighting the enemy.”
Powerful Sheiks citing the Koran in their fight against al-Qaeda! Who would have predicted in October 2001 that Iraqis would be taking up arms to fight those who flew four planes into our nation’s very soul. No one would have been so bold as to predict THAT kind of change. Yet here it has happened, is happening. No matter how hard the SurrenderMedia try to avoid what is going on, the Muslim street in Iraq is rising up and taking our side in this battle.
And that results in greater stability across the region. Yes, foreign fighters are heading to Iraq, but without public support and cover from the locals they are being gathered up in large numbers and jailed in Iraq:
A top Iraqi official said Sunday Baghdad supports Saudi efforts to prevent cross-border infiltrations while the Interior Ministry announced having detained over 2,000 foreign suspects.
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The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday that 45 percent of all foreign militants targeting US troops and Iraqi security forces were from Saudi Arabia, 15 percent from Syria and Lebanon, and 10 percent from North Africa, according to an unidentified senior US military officer and Iraqi lawmakers.
Fighters from Saudi Arabia are thought to have carried out more suicide bombings than those of any other nationality, the paper said.
Rubaie said about 160 Saudi militants have been tried inIraq for taking part in its insurgency while hundreds of others are in detention.
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Meanwhile, the head of the National Command Center at the Interior Ministry, Major General Abdel-Karim Khalaf, said Iraqi authorities have recently arrested 2,489 suspected terrorists, mostly from Iran, Egypt and Afghanistan, KUNA reported. He did not specify the period the arrests were made.
He reporters that among those still being questioned, “11 were Jordanians; 64 Syrians; nine Saudis; two Algerians; six Moroccans; six Yemenis; two Libyans; 57 Palestinians; 284 Egyptians; 113 Sudanese, two Emiratis; three Lebanese and one Somali.”
He added that the suspects included 461 from Iran and others came from Kenya, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Britain, France, Holland, Tanzania, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
2500 terrorists are off the streets in the world and behind bars in Iraq. Considering what 24 terrorists did on 9-11, that is another huge success. al-Qaeda is finished in Iraq. It is only a matter of time before the world realizes it. When large numbers of Muslims swear on the Koran to defeat al-Qaeda then al-Qaeda is finished.
AJStrata, I hope they will remain serious about maintaining security of their own country after we begin withdrawing some of our troops.
I also hope that they will remain “democratic” and eventually replace Shari’ah law with something more secular. But I guess it’s beyond my hopes and dreams.
More Good News From Iraq…
Meanwhile, about 50 tribal leaders from the Muqdadiya Qada in Diyala province, Iraq, gathered at the governor’s house yesterday to discuss security, services and the importance of unity with U.S. and Iraqi military leaders, officials reported….
Things are really looking up in Iraq. It looks like we are going to win a war that the Democrats insisted was hopeless and already lost. I wonder if the media will hold their feet to the fire for their remarks … oh, nevermind.
AQI is imploding, AQ is under attack in Pakistan and it looks like many of their best operators may now be needed back in Pakistan to protect the top echelons of the organization.
Wonder if Bush’s numbers will start turning around if things start going really well in Iraq. Add to that his victory this week in North Korea’s nuclear program shutting down and his poll numbers should start to rise significantly.
As AQ gets their butts whooped, attention will then turn to Iran in the last months of Bush administration.
Interesting opinion piece from Amir Taheri in Asharq Alawsat.
Tanzanai???
Geez, what makes these people think the Iraqis will put up with this forever?
I don’t really think Sharia will ever take over in Iraq. Those people like to smoke, go to the movies, listen to music, have a good time, eat ice cream, go to amusement parks, go to school, drink the occasional glass of wine etc. They are not really that into the whole 12th century thing.
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I never understood why we did not go after Saudi Arabia after September 11, 2001. The answer that is tossed about is that the Bush family are such good friends with the Saudi leaders. I never really bought that, but…
We didn’t go after Saudi Arabia because Al Qaeda hates the royal family as much (if not more) than they hate the US. Now, they have made the situation much worse by trying in the 80’s and 90’s to buy the extremists off – “here’s a bunch of money, go kill yourselves in Afghanistan and leave us alone” and the Saudi’s were incredibly foolish not to see that the snake was going to turn around and bite them back – but that’s about the same kind of deal that Musharref made with the taliban, and the deal that the left wants to make with AQ right now. It looks good in the short term and it’s easy, but it always turns out badly in the long run. But people forget (or don’t know) that Saudi Arabia has a whole lot of money but not many people, really, so their first option is always to try and buy their way out of trouble, if they can.
It’s popular in the press to say that the Saudi’s haven’t done anything for the US – where do you think all of our best intelligence intercepts come from? We don’t have squat for an intelligence network on our own in the middle east, not since Stansfield Turner got rid of most of the CIA’s field agents. (All you need to do is sit in Washington and read foreign language journals, don’t ya know) And you may have noticed that after a string of attacks on their home sale the violent extremists have now been almost completely routed from Saudi Arabia itself.
The idea of going after Saudi Arabia should be examined in light of the experience in Iraq – look how much grief has come from knocking out a dictator we knew was evil and who was always going to oppose us? You can’t make war on the entire world all at the same time – war has got to be reserved for the worst of the worst.
Oh, and there is the little matter of the fact that if the Saudi oilfields are shut down for even a small amount of time (and any war could shut them down for years) then Europe, the US, and Japan face an immediate economic collapse and the entire world plunges into an economic depression that makes the depression of the 30’s look like a sunday picnic. That’s not really a good situation, but it is exactly the situation we’re in right now.
As the head of the Kurdish contingent in Iraq pointed out today — the terrible bombing in Kirkuk was a result of the poorly coordinated Surge, which merely pushed insurgents OUT of Diyala and INTO northern Iraq.
At least 80 people were killed on Monday in a coordinated attack by a suicide truck bomber in a crowded market and a separate car bomb parked on a busy street, police said; 136 people were wounded in the Kirkuk blasts and warned that the death toll could rise further.