Ed Morissey, now blogging at Hot Air, posts about a recent attack by coalition forces in Iraq. The attack killed two al Qaeda terrorists who’d been the cause of the recent deaths of American forces in the Mosul area.
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Local intelligence told the US where to look for al-Saudi and Hamdan. In fact, the US found out quite a bit about the man in the four weeks before his death. He came to Iraq in August 2007 with a contingent of foreign fighters, dispatched by al-Qaeda from Afghanistan, apparently to help AQI leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri regain some control over the organization. Like the rest of AQI, they got pushed into Mosul after losing ground over the rest of Iraq.
Their arrival from the front in Afghanistan shows once again how critical AQ itself believes Iraq to be. They want to defeat us on this front very badly and if we withdraw, they will flood Iraq with their terrorists. A loss destroys their argument that they have guidance from Allah, and they get revealed as nothing more than a band of lunatics.
Hmm, al Qaeda forces from Afghanistan (you know, the “real” war against terrorists) in Iraq. I wonder if any of this has trickled into the Barak (middle name deleted) Obama camp. They should factor this into their exquisite plans for sending troops back into Iraq if al Qaeda sets up bases there.
Iraq is not only very important for al Qaeda to defeat the coalition and displace the new government. It is also important for us - we can either fight these terrorists in Iraq, in Afghanistan, or in New York and Washington, DC. I prefer “over there.”
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