US ambassador: Al-Qaida close to defeat in Iraq

[rsmith6621]

Source: AP


By LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writer 24 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Saturday that al-Qaida's network in the country has never been closer to defeat, and he praised Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for his moves to rein in Shiite and Sunni militant groups.


Ryan Crocker's comments came as Iraqi forces have been conducting crackdowns on al-Qaida militants in the northern city of Mosul and on Shiite militiamen in the southern city of Basra. Thousands of Iraqi forces also moved into the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad last week imposing control for the first time in years.

But truces with the powerful Mahdi Army militia that have calmed violence in Basra and paved the way for the Sadr City deployment have been strained in the past two days.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

---

....Such Bullshit

[Kutjara]

1. Breaking News: nonexistent terror group near fantasy defeat. n/t

[AzDar]

2. Finally caught all 15 of them, eh? Way to go.....

:eyes:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. As long as we spend 100 brazzilion dollars a year on "defense"

somebody somewhere will always be "near defeat".

[mr_hat]

4. If we could only bag the number two guy...

[singilarpoint]

10. but i thought

Didn't we kill or capture the "#2" guy like 10 times so far??? I'll bet with this bein an election year, we will probably kill or capture a lot of #2 guys this year...

[jeff30997]

5. "he praised Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for his moves "

Well if they can do the job let's get the US troops out of there ASAP dammit!

[Robbien]

6. Al Qaida close to Defeat says military. How many times is this now?

They must be xeroxing the same story and sending it into the AP once every other month.

[Norrin Radd]

7. kr for the replies

[indepat]

8. Interesting, but was thinking al-Quida was not over there until we were over there

:shrug:

[bluerum]

9. Oh. Brother. Another "just around the corner" quip from the propganda ministry.

[Chipper Chat]

11. We are still at war with East Asia.

Please Ryan, sell me some more Soma.

"What do you think....LINDA?"

[Xipe Totec]

12. Denial is not a river in Africa nt

[ohio2007]

13. Bet they must be getting hammered by the ever rising cost of oil also

I doubt the House of Saud is going to cut the freedom fighters any slack in thier war against the crusaders. ;)

[Narkos]

14. LOL!

[Narkos]

15. LOL!

[scarface2004]

16. yeah right whatever dude!!!

big effing deal!

[baldguy]

17. US ambassador: Al-Qaida close to defeat in Texas

Same thing