Al-Qaeda leaders admit: 'We are in crisis. There is panic and fear'

[WA_Vol]

Al-Qaeda in Iraq faces an “extraordinary crisis”. Last year's mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from al-Qaeda to the US military “created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight”. The terrorist group's security structure suffered “total collapse”.
These are the words not of al-Qaeda's enemies but of one of its own leaders in Anbar province — once the group's stronghold. They were set down last summer in a 39-page letter seized during a US raid on an al-Qaeda base near Samarra in November.
The US military released extracts from that letter yesterday along with a second seized in another November raid that is almost as startling.
That second document is a bitter 16-page testament written last October by a local al-Qaeda leader near Balad, north of Baghdad. “I am Abu-Tariq, emir of the al-Layin and al-Mashahdah sector,” the author begins. He goes on to describe how his force of 600 shrank to fewer than 20.

Al-Qaeda leaders admit: 'We are in crisis. There is panic and fear' - Times Online

 

[volsforever27]

I saw this earlier on Drudge... i wonder what some people on here will say.

 

[TennTradition]

I'm glad Al-Qaeda in Iraq is getting busted up....it was beginning to appear that they were getting desperate for suicide bombers. I wish that this statement applied to Al-Qaeda in general ... hopefully soon it will. Or maybe it already is...they've been quiet for a little while...how is the Afghanistan/world-wide Al-Qaeda-hunting going? Also, did any of the original Al-Qaeda leadership go to Iraq, or were these all just recruited to "the cause"?

 

[allvol123]

We must have stopped killing terrorsits, because it was said for every terrorist we kill that we create two more. Note sarcasm.

 

[Lexvol]

We must have stopped killing terrorsits, because it was said for every terrorist we kill that we create two more. Note sarcasm.

...and we all thought those numbers were so scientific!:crazy:

 

[OrangeWilly]

Its a great credit to all who have and will serve in Iraq. Regardless of your feelings on the war....one thing goes without saying... Our Armed Forces are the best in the world and are responsible for the freedom we enjoy.

 

[allvol123]

They were very scientific until they realized the terrorists were mininterpreting the questions on the questionaire. Stupid terrorists.

 

[Lexvol]

They were very scientific until they realized the terrorists were mininterpreting the questions on the questionaire. Stupid terrorists.

That is gold...gold I tell you!:lolabove:

 

[TennTradition]

I'm confused....

U.S. deficient against Muslim insurgents, study says - CNN.com

 

[vader]

Communist News Network post in 5, 4, 3,...

 

[TennTradition]

I've read around a little more about this...it seems like the defense department sat on this when it was first conducted, and perhaps that the NY Times got access to it and released it. However, it seems like it may have been finished in 2005 ... I would say a lot of things are looking up now, when compared to then.