(H/T – Allahpundit)
ABC News is reporting the capture of Khaled Abdul-Fattah Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadani (aka Abu Shahid), the highest-ranking Iraqi in the Al Qaeda in Iraq terror group. What is interesting is what ABC News has put in its story:
(Brigadier General Kevin) Bergner said al-Mashhadani served as an intermediary between al-Masri and Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.
“In fact, communication between the senior al-Qaida leadership and al-Masri frequently went through al-Mashhadani,” Bergner said….
“In his words, the Islamic State of Iraq is a front organization that masks the foreign influence and leadership within al-Qaida in Iraq in an attempt to put an Iraqi face on the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq,” Bergner said.
Golly, sure looks like that surge is a “failure”, and that Al Qaeda isn’t trying to do to Iraq what they did to Afghanistan under Clinton’s watch </sarcasm>.
Tell me again why the DhimmiRATs and the sycophant cut-and-runners among the RINO Senators want to retreat and defeat from Iraq so badly, they’re holding a sleepover. Is it because they would rather be slaves under dhimmitude and die under Sharia than suffer another term under Republican rule, much less conservative rule? Oh, I’m not questioning the patriotism of you lefties who support immediate retreat-and-defeat; after all, it’s pointless to question what does not exist.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. al Qaida has more number twos than an Uno deck.
(steveegg – fixed a typo per grumps’ request)
True (in more ways than one). That makes it all the more imperative that we keep up the skeer.