Friday, June 01, 2007

Insurgency? Really?

clipped from pajamasmedia.com

Meanwhile, the great military blogger Bill Roggio reports on the latest developments in Iraq in the Weekly Standard. Lots of interesting developments—we are obviously getting better intelligence from the Iraqi citizenry, since we’re rounding up terrorists by the score—and you will want to read it all. I just want to flag one paragraph. It will not surprise regular readers of this blog, but it ought to be memorized by all of our leaders:

…Coalition forces captured a “liaison to al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leaders, who assists in the movement of information and documents from al-Qaeda in Iraq leadership in Baghdad to al-Qaeda senior leaders in Iran.” Al Qaeda leaders such as Saif al Adel and Said bin Laden, Osama’s son, are being sheltered in Iran along with an estimated 100 al Qaeda senior operatives.

So al Qaeda in Iraq’s headquarters are in Tehran. Can we stop talking about “insurgency” yet?