With Abu Ghraib back in the headlines and the media clamoring over detainee abuse, we at America’s Majority were reminded of a U.S. News and World Report article from a few months ago.
The story details how a young insurgent was cocky and wasn’t going to roll on his fellow insurgents while in American or Iraqi police custody.
By J.D. Johannes
The Times of London is reporting that Zarqawi is attempting to “set up his own mini-army and move away from individual suicide attacks to a more organised resistance movement.”
But Al-Qaeda in Iraq tried quasi-military coordinated attacks last spring–they were a complete failure, except in the eyes of the legacy media.
For four months, the “Iraq Index,” a project of the Saban Center of the Brookings Institution, has failed to update a key indicator of Coalition progress.
The data in question records the number of “actionable tips” generated by the Iraqi population. An “actionable tip” is one that contains information regarding anti-government forces that can be used in operational planning by the MNF or by Iraqi Security Forces.