To understand the sea change washing over Iraq one only needs to look at al-Qaeda’s latest attempt to gain a base of operations. Early on al-Qaeda would come into regions of Iraq and find allies. But the word is out about what al-Qaeda does to Muslims when it comes to town, and now al-Qaeda finds […]

I posted yesterday that al-Qaeda had become so blood-thirsty it decided to slaughter innocent Muslim in a small, quiet Iraqi village to achieve some major press time. I predicted this would rebound badly on al-Qaeda with the Iraqi and Muslim ‘street’. It did not take long for Sunni extremists to publically slap down al-Qaeda’s senseless […]

al-Qaeda has not learned their lesson yet. Somehow these bloodthirsty thugs think killing massive numbers of Muslims will win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people and push the US to depart. Far from it. One thing we Americans can sympathize with are innocenbt people being attacked by Islamo Fascists so they can get […]

al-Qaeda’s days in Iraq are numbered. Due their brutality and bloodlust they have made an enemy of not only the US, not only the democratically elected Iraqi government, but also of the local tribes of Iraq, especially the Sunni tribes who are not rising up against al-Qaeda and supporting the Iraqi government in ever growing […]

The un-reported news about Iraq’s so-called civil war is that the enemy of the democratic government of Iraq has lost its two self-proclaimed capitol cities in the last year. Ramadi is the capitol of Anbar Province, the Province that was the original al-Qaeda stronghold. It was here al-Qaeda declared they would start the modern caliphate […]

The news in Iraq is becoming so broadly positive even the SurrenderMedia cannot escape it any more. As I predicted way back in March from early reports hinting at the connection between the Surge and the turn around in Anbar Province, the Surge effort could provide the tipping point for Iraq if it built upon […]

The Surge has completed much of its first phase objectives – to clear key areas of al-Qaeda. Anbar Province has remained quiet as Diyala Province, especially its capitol city Baquoba, is in the last stages of clearing out al-Qaeda: With almost no hostile fire reported in days, combat operations are winding down. The focus of […]

Iraq has turned a corner. a-Qaeda is being destroyed and, even worse, humiliated on the battlefield as they run from the battles and leave their troops to die. In comparison, the Iraqi forces are standing tall: he Iraqi soldiers and units working with the Multinational Division North are “holding firm,” the director of operations for […]

Update: Michael Yon is reporting in again and sees things on the ground basically the same way I have seen them distantly through the lense of the media: Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) had tarnished its name here by publicly attacking and murdering children, videotaping beheadings, all while imposing harsh punishments on Iraqi civilians found […]

The clearing of al-Qaeda and the Islamo Fascists from Baquoba is nearly complete, which is much quicker than I think anyone expected: U.S. forces believe the initial combat phase of a major offensive to clear al Qaeda from the Iraqi city of Baquba is nearly complete and any militants left could be confronted in the […]