By Deroy Murdock
Scripps Howard News Service
Published: Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008 12:04 a.m. MST
NEW YORK — Though largely dismissed by the Democratic left, America’s “surge” policy is paying attractive dividends. Al-Qaida in Iraq is in retreat, violence is down and political reconciliation is up.
In a 16-page letter that U.S. soldiers found last October near Baghdad, AQI leader Abu Tariq complained that his 600-man force had dwindled to 20 terrorists.
“We were mistreated, cheated and betrayed by some of our brothers,” he moaned, as Sunnis swapped AQI for the U.S. This shift “created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight,” another AQI chief whined in his own missive discovered in November near Samarra. His network, he said, suffered “total collapse.” read more
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