Zarqawi, al Qaeda Surrender In Iraq?
Al Qaeda in Iraq and its presumed leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, have conceded strategic defeat and are on their way out of the country, a top U.S. military official contended yesterday.
The group’s failure to disrupt national elections and a constitutional referendum last year “was a tactical admission by Zarqawi that their strategy had failed,” said Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who commands the XVIII Airborne Corps.
“They no longer view Iraq as fertile ground to establish a caliphate and as a place to conduct international terrorism,” he said in an address at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Gen. Vines’ statement came as news broke that coalition and Iraqi forces had killed an associate of Osama bin Laden’s during an early morning raid near Abu Ghraib about two weeks ago.
Hat tip to AJ Strata who notes:
This must be a sad day for people like Murtha, Dean and others who have been trying to be the first to surrender in Iraq. Seems Zarqawi and Al Qaeda might have beat them to the punch and given up first.
Chad Evans is very skeptical.
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Posted by Jay on April 14, 2006 3:29 pm
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Al Quaeda is only part of the adverse situation. The other part is the communist Baath party the dominates the Sunni population. I am firmly convinced that most of the so called secular violence in Iran was really between communist posing as Sunnis and Shiites. I have heard that Al Quada is a Sunni religious group. If, as rumored, most of the local Sunni’s are communist then it would certainly not be fertile ground for them.
Well, even if it is true, we can’t expect the left to do anything but downplay it, direct the credit elsewhere, etc…