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| Al-Qaeda in Iraq losing loyalty of senior commanders |
| 2006-04-10 |
| The U.S. military has determined that Al Qaida was losing the loyalty of its senior operatives in Iraq. Officials said the U.S.-led coalition has received significant cooperation from captured aides of Al Qaida network chief Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi. They said information provided by these insurgents has led to the discovery of other Al Qaida commanders as well as weapons caches. "What we're finding is there's a lack of a specific quality inside the Zarqawi network, and that quality is loyalty," U.S. Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said. Over the weekend, about 85 people were killed and 140 were injured in a series of bombings that targeted Shi'ites in Baghdad. Officials said the attackers were disguised as women and struck a Shi'ite mosque. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #15 Whatever Zark is, he is definitely pushing the envelope of the Peter Principle. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-04-10 16:33 |
| #14 Gotta have standards Frank. Rules are rules. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-04-10 16:01 |
| #13 Actually, Isn't Zark an engineer lopt? Not that I want to be an argumentative bastard, but he should know better. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-04-10 12:38 |
| #12 Fire ants do the same thing... hard to kill. They just re-deploy and the process starts all over again. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-04-10 11:49 |
| #11 sometimes, I dress up, ..when I feel pretty... but nothing in white after Labor day, dammit |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-04-10 11:48 |
| #10 heh. I suspect the story may have its roots in two different causes. First, Zarqawi is an illiterate thug who has overreached in some ways. But also, some of the better operatives reportedly left Iraq for Afghanistan and Europe. This may not all be good news. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-04-10 11:47 |
| #9 Say what you will about the U.S. military, but I spent 20 years in it and never once dressed up like a girl. Big deal. I spent longer than that outside of the US army, and I've never dressed up as a girl either. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-04-10 11:43 |
| #8 Luther, the cocoanut brassiere was a fashion classic, let me tell you. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2006-04-10 11:38 |
| #7 Say what you will about the U.S. military, but I spent 20 years in it and never once dressed up like a girl. Guess that rules out the Navy. |
| Posted by: Luther Billis 2006-04-10 11:15 |
| #6 LOL Fred. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-04-10 11:10 |
| #5 Well the senior commanders may be decaying but the terrorist cells are still functioning well enough to carry out significant operations. So maybe the senior commanders aren't that important to the operations. |
| Posted by: mhw 2006-04-10 11:05 |
| #4 Say what you will about the U.S. military, but I spent 20 years in it and never once dressed up like a girl. |
| Posted by: Fred 2006-04-10 10:51 |
| #3 The "Lions of Islam", dressing up as women and blowing up soft targets. How very ispirational. |
| Posted by: Crairt Anginesing8770 2006-04-10 08:50 |
| #2 Officials said the attackers were disguised as women and struck a Shi'ite mosque. Cause----I'm a lumberjack and I'm O.K.!! |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2006-04-10 08:14 |
| #1 I would say that Zarky may be short on cash. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-04-10 03:30 |