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He's Chased Al Qaeda From Baghdad. Next: Kandahar.(David Petraeus )
Byline: Rod Nordland
Gen. David Petraeus has no intention of doing a victory lap on his way out of Iraq. As he heads off next month to take over the U.S. military's Central Command, in charge of Afghanistan as well as Iraq, he leaves a country on the rebound. People in Baghdad feel so safe they are out on the streets at midnight. The scourge of Al Qaeda in Iraq is a spent force. They've lost Anbar province and Baghdad, where at best they can mount a couple of mostly insignificant attacks a day. They've vacated the Sunni Triangle. Virtually the entire Sunni Arab population has turned against them, and nowadays not a single Sunni imam, politician or tribal leader of note inside the country supports them. So why then don't we just say it: Al Qaeda in Iraq has been defeated.
"You won't find a single military leader in this theater who will say that," says Petraeus, whose counterinsurgency guidance to his troops warns against "premature declarations of success." Petraeus is far too politic to refer to his commander in chief's May 1, 2003, "mission accomplished" declaration, but he's clearly not making that mistake.
Other players are quick to rush in where Petraeus declines to tread. "Al Qaeda is definitely defeated, tactically," says Iraq's national-security adviser, Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, citing intercepted communications in which Al Qaeda in Iraq asked senior Qaeda officials in Pakistan "not ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, He's Chased Al Qaeda From Baghdad. Next: Kandahar.(David Petraeus )