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Since Al Sabah(an iraqi newspaper)reported an al Qaida withdrawl,is Bushs plan working ?

al Sabah reported : Abu Ayyub al Masri, the head of al Qaida in Iraq, has ordered a withdrawal to Diyala province, north and east of Baghdad. Mr. al Masri's evacuation order said that remaining in Baghdad is a no-win situation for al Qaida, because the Fallujah campaign is demonstrating the Americans have learned how to prevail in house to house fighting.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    If this report is true, which I hope that it is, then it signals a very early positive sign for President Bush and his decision to deploy more forces to Iraq. However, one of the major concerns military leaders have voiced in the past few weeks is that insurgents, be they Iraqi militia members or al-Qaida members, will simply withdraw from Baghdad to other parts of Iraq in an attempt to wait out the surge of U.S. Forces in the Baghdad area. Al Sabah's report seems to suggest that al Qaida is prepared to surrender strategic areas in Baghdad rather than attempt to fight force on force with the additional troops soon to be deployed in and around Baghdad. This is a very standard guerilla warfare tactic used to buy time and conserve forces and supplies, so I would say it is to soon to declare victory for President Bush's latest decision to send more troops into Baghdad.

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