Seized Papers Said to Show Qaeda in Iraq Is Worried
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 8 (AP) — The Council of Holy Warriors, Al Qaeda’s branch in Iraq, is worried that its cells in the Baghdad area are ineffective, with one militant describing their activities as nothing more than a “daily annoyance” to the Iraqi government, according to two documents released Monday by the United States military.
The military said it had seized the documents on April 16 during raids in and around Yusifiya, a town 10 miles south of Baghdad that has long served as a base for Sunni Arab extremists. The documents indicate that the group is worried that it is unable to secure a solid base within Baghdad, military officials said.
The documents seemed to be released as part of an American campaign to deflate the image of the local branch of Al Qaeda and that of its leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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From Rush: One of the most unreported stories in the Iraq war is that Al-Qaeda terrorists are failing militarily and in terms of winning public support among the people of Iraq. Where they’re succeeding is in promoting a carefully-thought-through western media strategy. “Their aim is clear. They want to engage in the type of operations that are attractive to the media in the hopes that the coverage of the war will drain American public support for it.” Now, I’ve waited for this. This came out on Monday, late Monday afternoon. Here we are at Wednesday. We’re almost 48 hours later. I wanted to wait to see if anywhere in the Drive-By Media the substance of this has been reported, and it hasn’t been! It won’t be. But the bottom line is, Al-Qaeda says they are losing. Their internal documents to each other, their own analysis, they are losing, and we are winning. Can you imagine that is not news fit to print in the United States of America?
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