The fact that some top al-Qaeda leaders ran (again) from a fight with the US and Iraqi forces now pushing through Baqouba, Iraq in Diyala Province is causing some in the media to claim the US tipped its hand when it planned the Surge many months ago: Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, the second-ranking U.S. commander […]

The tide is turning in Iraq, like a wave of fresh air rolling over the desert country cleansing it of the red hot hate of brutality and bloodlust that comes with the Islamo Fascists. It seems in every area we are applying the Surge forces and tactics, the locals are turning on al-Qaeda and turning […]

Many Updates Below The Surge was not just an effort to bring in a lot more troops to walk the streets and man checkpoints. It was meant to clear or purge large areas of the Islamo Fascists so as to reduce the violence in and around Baghdad – where 80% of the violence was taking […]

As goes Diyala so goes Iraq and our chances for success in Iraq. We seem to be kicking al-Qaeda butts in Baqouba as we surround and destroy one of the last strong holds of al-Qaeda: Odierno—a supertanker of a man with a shaved head who looks like ancient turtle—met with a group of battalion commanders […]

Well, something must be happening in a major way because the normally conservative and low key military is making a very bold and definitive statement regarding our path to success in Iraq: A U.S. Marine commander in Anbar province predicted that al-Qaida fighters will be expelled from Fallujah by August as the military moves to […]

This blog was one of the few to connect the dots regarding the strategy of the Iraq-US Coalition in Iraq to corrall and destroy al Qaeda in Iraq. The opening to this opportunity happened when military leaders in al-Qaeda’s then stronghold of al-Anbar Province were able to reach out to local Sunni tribal leaders and […]

The tide keeps turning on al-Qaeda in Iraq as more local tribes are taking the side of the Iraqi-US coalition forces and taking up arms against al-Qaeda and their brutal variant of Islam: ore than 10 Iraqi tribes in the Baghdad area have reached agreements with U.S. and Iraqi forces for the first time to […]

The Surge is actually moving quite well. Better than I expected it would (and I’m an optimist!). Building on the success in Anbar where the US allied with local Sunni tribal leaders to establish what is basically an uprising against al-Qaeda and its allies, the US is repeating this model in and around Baghdad. The […]

Fixed the screwy HTML, so bumped it to the top Seems not only is the UK and US taking serious steps to knock out the underground smugglers’ trail that is moving weapons from Iran into Iraq – they are having some good success: Up to 36 people were killed in southern Iraq today as British […]

A sister Islamo Fascist group allied with al-Qaeda is being crushed in Lebanon – proving to the Middle East and the world that they actually can be beaten: he Lebanese army is army expected to finish off the terrorists of Fatah al Islam at the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp within the next 48 […]