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Who is really losing in Iraq? Insurgency or the new Government?
A lot is happening in Iraq. It seems Al-Zarquawi is wounded if not dead has left Iraq to a neighboring country. Most of his immediate associates are in custody or killed. Even Syria has decided to send back foreign fighters back to their country instead of allowing them to duel further insurgency. So what really happened? Insurgency in Iraq lost it?
Iraqi Defense Minister Sadoun al-Dulaimi said on May 26 that 40,000 Iraqi troops will deploy in and around Baghdad in the largest anti-insurgent operation by Iraqi soldiers to date. Al-Dulaimi said the troops will impose a cordon around the capital while conducting a sweep for insurgents in seven operational areas. The operation will be the first phase of a nationwide crackdown intended to give the forces an offensive, rather than defensive, posture against insurgents, according to al-Dulaimi. He did not say when the operation would begin.
Internet reports that al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is wounded are true, Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabor said May 26. Jabor said in a news conference in Baghdad that he had received information five days earlier indicating that al-Zarqawi had been wounded. He declined to say where he received the information.
But do not plan to relax so easily. A statement posted May 26 on the Internet denied that al Qaeda in Iraq has appointed a deputy leader to fill in for leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who reportedly has been injured. An earlier Web posting, also purportedly made by al Qaeda in Iraq, claimed Abu Hafs al-Qarni had been named to replace al-Zarqawi.
A U.S. military helicopter crashed near Baqubah, Iraq, on May 26, resulting in the death of two U.S. soldiers from Task Force Liberty, the U.S. military said May 27.
Three detainees have escaped from the Baghdad Central Detention Center, formerly known as Abu Ghraib Prison, the U.S. military reported on May 26.
A suicide car bombing near an Iraqi police patrol in Baghdad killed three people and wounded six on May 26. The bombing occurred in the impoverished Shola district in the northwestern part of the Iraqi capital. Two of the dead and four of the injured were members of the police force.
What does all these mean? It really means the insurgency saga goes on. It is a fight to prove tenacity – who has longest staying power!
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