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2008-06-12 Iraq

Papers give peek inside al Qaeda in Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 Interesting article. In future battles, we can plan better knowing the patterns and sophistication of these cowards.

Posted by Threse Ghibelline5495 2008-06-12 00:18|| 2008-06-12 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I can only stand Michael Ware as far as I can throw the guy. I trust him even less.

Wasn't he the guy that was saying a year ago that AQI was just a bogeyman set up by the Bush administration as an excuse to keep fighting in Iraq?

Which means that if this is true, Ware is essentially admitting he got it wrong and if it isn't true, it's just business as usual for CNN's Senior Correspondent for Gloom and Doom (or anything that makes the US look bad).

His accent alone makes my skin crawl.

Posted by eltoroverde 2008-06-12 16:30|| 2008-06-12 16:30|| Front Page Top

#3 The story opens with a secret meeting of al-Q's Anbar princes in Christmas 2005. It goes on:

All this would be Phase I, a precursor to the 90 days of attacks of Phase II, to be timed across not just Anbar but across much of Sunni Iraq to stretch and distract America's war commander, Gen. David Petraeus.

Except that in late 2005 and 2006 Petraeus was in the US working on the strategy that led to the revised ROE and surge that he implemented when he assumed command of MNF-I in February 2007.

Now if an amateur like me can find that size error in 30 seconds, exactly how much credibility should I give to the balance of Ware's fable?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-12 17:14|| 2008-06-12 17:14|| Front Page Top

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