Check updates below I would love to see the intelligence estimates on al-Qaeda recruitment efforts. My guess is they are way down. There was recent reporting showing a severe drop off in fresh recruits going into Iraq. Much of that is due to stepped up security. But much of it is also due to al-Qaeda’s […]

As we pick up more and more al-Qaeda leaders, we pick up more and more intel and are able to chase down and roll up the al-Qaeda leadership. One of the more interesting intelligence successes to go public was the find of 500 names and information on recent al-Qaeda recruits. The fact it became public […]

The Strategy Page has a good look at what has happened in Iraq over the last year and why we are on the path to success there, not a path of defeat desired by those strange people on the left who fantasize about a defeated America: The Sunni Arab terrorist campaign, an attempt to regain […]

al-Qaeda is not the grass roots movement many believed. In fact, they have been aligned with, and supported by, governments with agendas. This includes more than Afghanistan. In Saudi Arabia it included a sect that was not in power, but wanted to be in power. With the death of one of its primary recruiters last […]

Credibility on the Iraq war is very important. Keyboard warriors like myself, and keyboard surrenderers from the left, who have not been to Iraq have limited if any credibility on what is going on in Iraq. We can voice our views. But we should always rely on those who have been there to provide the […]

The Surge is producing the one result the pessimists claimed it could never produce – protecting Iraqis. The theory from the Surrender-at-all-costs crowd is our efforts will be useless in a civil war. But if this is not a civil war but is the blood-thirsty, repression of Iraqis by al-Qaeda then we would expect to […]

In an earlier post I noted how 1200 Iraqis lined up for hours to join the fight against al-Qaeda. As the picture shows the line wrapped around the block. This was in one town in one area of Iraq. But it was by know means isolated, as the Washington Post is reporting: More than 30,000 […]

In this previous post, where I noted the atrocities al-Qaeda is inflicting on Muslims across Iraq, I asked an important question (or two): Is this [continued carnage] causing the Sunnis to turn on the Americans and the Iraqi government? Or are these atrocities going to strengthen the resolve of the Iraqis to support the current […]

al-Qaeda has stepped up its campaign of violence and bloodshed against Iraqi Muslims. So much the streets must be running red with the blood of al-Qaeda’s victims: Bomb attacks killed 59 people and wounded more than 120 across Iraq yesterday raising the toll in a three-day surge of bloodletting to more than 70. In a […]

al-Qaeda will get some wins, even as they are on the path to destruction in Iraq. It happens in war. Even in the final days the loser gets some final jabs in. Today al-Qaeda got a good hit in on all of those working to succeed in Iraq: A suicide bomber blew himself up in […]