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Tag Archives: Anbar
The Captives of Years
On Monday the United States officially returned all security duties for Anbar province to Iraqi police and military. The collapse of the Sunni insurgency there now appears to be almost total, with attacks having declined 90% from only two years … Continue reading →
Posted in Foreign affairs, Military Matters, Notes on the war
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Tagged 1968, 2006, Anbar, Anbar province, attacks, Blogs for Victory, chart, Creighton Abrams, David Petraeus, Iraq, New York Times, security, sunni insurgency, Vietnam, Vietnamization
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Inside Al Qaeda’s Crisis in Iraq
A Concerned Local Citizens (CLC) member in Arab Jabour, Iraq (photo: DoD) In extraordinary documents confiscated in November by the United States, we get an enemy’s eye view of the Awakening in Iraq, and further confirmation about how debilitating the … Continue reading →
Posted in Military Matters, Notes on the war
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Tagged Abu-Tariq, al Qaeda, Anbar, Arab Jabour, Awakening, Baghdad, Diyala, Iraq, terrorists, United States
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A Waziristan Awakening?
Sunni tribal leaders in Pakistan are organizing militias and some are ready to revolt against Al Qaeda. David Montero at the CSM takes a look at the risks and rewards of applying our successful counterterrorism strategy from Anbar, in Pakistan’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Around the Web
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Tagged al Qaeda, Anbar, Counterterrorism, FATA, Iraq, Pakistan, Taliban, Waziristan
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