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| Odierno Reports "Al Quaeda in Iraq is 'Broken'" |
| 2010-06-05 |
| Iraqi and US forces have hit al Qaeda in Iraq hard over the last several months, crippling the terror group's senior leadership and disrupting its communications with al Qaeda's top leaders in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the top US commander in the country said. "Over the last 90 days or so, we've either picked up or killed 34 out of the top 42 al Qaeda in Iraq leaders," General Ray Odierno, the commander of US Forces - Iraq, told reporters during a Pentagon press briefing. Odierno said it isn't clear if the new al Qaeda in Iraq leaders (replacements named for the above 34) are real people or merely placeholders . "They've named some names, but we're not even sure if there's actually people behind those names," he said. "We call those names roughly honorific names. They're names that are very common names in the Arabic world. So we're not sure there's actually people behind those names yet." |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #8 Yes, yes, YES. Like drug dealers on a streetcorner, they'll be back til the drugs are gone. We all know how that has turned out... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-06-05 20:39 |
| #7 Broken? No worries. The Saudis have superglue (money) to put it back together again. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-06-05 19:44 |
| #6 As soon as we leave, they will become magically 'fixed'. Sadly, I bet they are training somewhere right now. Why do we announce our plans in advance. Has our commander-in-chief any common sense? (don't answer that question) |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-06-05 14:44 |
| #5 RJ, IDF killed something like 500 - 1000% of Hamas leadership. As long as the money flows, there will always be replacements---it isn't like the job required unique mental qualifications. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-06-05 14:14 |
| #4 g(r)omgoru, I think we are playing whack-a-mole. Al Queda right now is over in Afghanistan and Pakistan causing us trouble and we are able to clean house in Iraq. At some point they might move back when/if we start to defeat them again in Afghanistan. Each time their recruiting gets dumber folks with less time to train so their is an endgame out there if we have the patience. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-06-05 10:26 |
| #3 This is all George Bush's fault! |
| Posted by: Ebbamp Guelph3050 2010-06-05 09:50 |
| #2 "Al Quaeda in Iraq is 'Broken'" Which time is it---I've lost count. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-06-05 09:25 |
| #1 Roggio lists 12 actions in which named AQII were killed or captured - all 12 cited "Iraqi forces killed.....", not US (though we presumably helped.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-06-05 09:03 |