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"Al-Qaeda faces rebellion from the ranks"

 
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:19 am    Post subject: "Al-Qaeda faces rebellion from the ranks" Reply with quote

This encouraging news...and we seem to be reading more and more of it.

Even should Al Queda discontent be overstated and, perhaps, the product of some pumped-up, revamped propaganda effort, my only question would be "what's taken us so long" to start playing with their heads?

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From The Times
July 23, 2007


Al-Qaeda faces rebellion from the ranks
Sickened by the group’s barbarity, Iraqi insurgents are giving information to coalition forces
Deborah Haynes in Doura

Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person’s face with piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of al-Qaeda in Iraq are daring to become informants for the US military in a hostile Baghdad neighbourhood.

The ground-breaking move in Doura is part of a wider trend that has started in other al-Qaeda hotspots across the country and in which Sunni insurgent groups and tribal sheikhs have stood together with the coalition against the extremist movement.

“They are turning. We are talking to people who we believe have worked for al-Qaeda in Iraq and want to reconcile and have peace,” said Colonel Ricky Gibbs, commander of the 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, which oversees the area.

The Times - cont'd
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