Friday, April 14, 2006

Is Zarqawi Turning Tail?

According to a piece in The Washington Times Al Qaeda in Iraq and its leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, have accepted strategic defeat and are on their way out of the country.

Their failure to disrupt national elections and a constitutional referendum last year "was a tactical admission by Zarqawi that their strategy had failed," said Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who commands the XVIII Airborne Corps.

"They no longer view Iraq as fertile ground to establish a caliphate and as a place to conduct international terrorism," he said in an address at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

I hope this is true and Zarqawi, the human vermin, gets exterminated while hiding in a rathole.

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