Posted on 02/10/2008 3:37:02 PM PST by Kaslin
The military revealed two documents discovered by American troops in November: a 39-page memo written by a mid- to high-level Al Qaeda official with knowledge of the group's operations in Iraq's western Anbar province, and a 16-page diary written by another group leader north of Baghdad.
Click here for the English translation of the diary. (PDF)
Click here for the original version of the diary. (PDF)
In the Anbar document, the author describes an Al Qaeda in crisis, with citizens growing weary of militants' presence and foreign fighters too eager to participate in suicide missions rather than continuing to fight, said Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, a U.S. military spokesman.
"We lost cities and afterward, villages... We find ourselves in a wasteland desert," Smith quoted the document as saying.
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