Unprecedented Good News
Is it just me, or is there a wave of good news coming out of Iraq today? Information found in the not-so-safehouse Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was found in resulted in 452 raids and 104 terrorists killed. In addition, coalition forces seized 28 weapons caches. Read about it here in the Washington Post.

In a related story, some of the information recovered indicates that al Qaeda in Iraq was in a rather sorry state. Iraq's National Security Adviser described some of the information that was found:

[National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie] said the seized documentation indicates how al Qaeda is using virtually everyone as a pawn in its fight.

Al Qaeda in Iraq was planning to exacerbate already hostile tensions between Iran and the United States in order to climb out of a "bleak" situation in Iraq, according to al Qaeda in Iraq documents cited by the Iraqi government.

Such plans included the delivery of threatening messages attributed to Shiite Iranians and the carrying out of attacks under the guise of Iranian collusion, the Iraqi government cited the documents as saying.

Al Qaeda in Iraq also considered planting information that Iran has ties to terror groups, has been in possession of weapons of mass destruction, and is attempting to carry out terror operations in the West, the documents said, according to the Iraqi government.

In other news, coalition forces have identified al-Zarqawi's successor. The new leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was announced by the terrorists to be Abu Hamza al-Muhajer. He has been identified as Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Let's hope he gets killed soon, hopefully in a more painful way than his boss. Click here for a photo.
- posted by Base10 @ 10:16 AM