Posted by Tina
The media wont cover the remarkable story going on in Iraq but the good news is available through our friends at The American Thinker:
Victory in Anbar? What victory? by Kyle-Anne Shiver The American Thinker
Victory in Anbar Province, Iraq? If you Google, “Anbar + victory,” all you will find is a bunch of outdated stuff from the years when coalition forces were taking a real beating from Al Qaeda Iraq and the Sunni insurgents, who were then still trying to take back control of the whole Country. The latest entry in Google’s search engine, for “Anbar + victory” is from 2006. *** Anbar Province covers approximately one-third of Iraq, is west of Baghdad, and has borders with Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Anbar’s towns, Fallujah, Ramadi and Haditha have been the sites of fiercely fought battles with Sunni insurgents and Al Qaeda forces. But when some of the worst Al Qaeda atrocities of the war were carried out against Sunni tribal families, these tribes eventually decided to turn on Al Qaeda and to work in tandem with coalition forces to secure the Province. *** In short, many facets of General David Petraeus’ Counter-Insurgency methods have proven successful in Anbar and in the other 9 Provinces already turned over to Iraqi control.