Yep, you heard it here. Maybe the Dems will come around. The source of many of their talking points, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Queda's Deputy Leader, says Iraq is the central front in the War on A new video by al-Qaida's deputy leader Thursday left no doubt about what the terror network claims is at stake in Iraq - describing it as a centerpiece of its anti-American fight and insisting the Iraqi insurgency is under its direct leadership
And, in a less obvious quip, Zawahiri admitted that things are not going well for the insurgency:
The speech is perhaps most significant for its admission that Sunni militants have grown divided over the usefulness of the alternative regime that the Islamic State of Iraq claims to offer.
In recent weeks, US soldiers have formed partnerships with Sunni insurgents, in places such as western Baghdad and in Baqubah, north of the capital, to track down Al Qaeda in Iraq members and find their weapons. Members of insurgent groups such as the 1920s Revolution Brigades and the Islamic Army have said they have grown disillusioned with Al Qaeda in Iraq's seemingly indiscriminate killing and its repressive style of Islam.
These fighters, whom the American military wants to fashion into a grass-roots police force in several areas, have in some cases arrested and killed suspected Al Qaeda in Iraq members.
Wow, could it be that even though things are still rough, the US military is adjusting tactics and battling al Queda? Isn't it sad that we get more truth out of the mouth of the Devil in the Sand than from the devils in our own legislature?
