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The report from the NY Times:

At Least 11 Dead in Baghdad Attack (Who did IT?)

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By CARA BUCKLEY

Published: November 23, 2007

BAGHDAD, Nov. 22 — Sunni insurgents dressed as Iraqi Army troops stormed a village southeast of Baghdad at dawn today, killing at least 11 people during a three-hour firefight before American and Iraqi soldiers drove them off. However, a local sheik said there were at least 20 more dead.

The village, Hawr Rajab, has been the site of fierce struggles between two rival Sunni groups, the foreign-led Al Qaeda of Mesopotamia and members of the so-called Sunni Awakening, who are allied with the American forces here.

The head of Hawr Rajab’s Awakening Council, Sheik Maher al-Maenee, said 50 attackers burst into the village from three entry points at 6:30 a.m. One local resident said the insurgents overran an Iraqi army checkpoint and commandeered two tanks.

The attackers were wearing Iraqi Army fatigues, Mr. al-Maenee said, along with Awakening Council uniforms stolen during previous raids. Iraqi troops fought back, killing at least three.

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Al Qaeda has to attack the home-grown movements in Iraq for that leaves no space for them to create more violence and unrest. AQ thrives on the kinds of conditions the Democrats find so congenial. A stable Iraq is not a welcoming environment for them.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Allegra]

"We will bomb each and every house in the village and chop the heads of people unless they return" to the anti-American insurgency."

Oh, there will be no return, al Qaeda. Iraq has it figured out.

You're defeated. Deal with it.

Freedom always wins in the end.