al Qaeda seems to be in full retreat in Iraq. First they (and the Shiia Mahdi insurgents) bolted Baghdad when the US and Iraq started flooding the streets with military and security forces. al Qaeda spread out to Anbar and Diyala provinces. In Anbar, as we have been seeing, the local Sunni’s are allying with […]

The news is all over the blogosphere on how Iraqis in Anbar and Diyala Provinces are uniting against al Qaeda and the other foreign fighters (and possibly foreign trained fighters coming out of Iran). The fact the US news media is even behind the BBC in reporting this just illustrates the depth of their loathing […]

The Surge has chased much of the violent insurgency out of Baghdad and heading to find safe havens farther out in the country. But this time the US is chasing them down, or more accurately hunting them down, giving them no quarter, no rest. More than 700 U.S. troops rolled into Diyala on Tuesday in […]

While the Denial of Service (DoS) attacks continued today on Hosting Matters and bloggers, the US coalition in Iraq was kicking some butt.  Note this story as a follow on to a previous story of some serious Special Ops actions to take down Al Qaeda in Iraq: The United States military announced on Friday that […]