Iraq - Insurgency Crumbling

The anti-American media are quick to report any and all attacks on US forces by terrorists in Iraq but seem reluctant to report on citizens turning those terrorists in. Slowly but surely the terrorists are losing and instead of reporting that good news, Iraq, just like Afghanistan, is fading from the radar scope.

Buried in this CNN report is at least a mention of Iraqi citizens turning on the terrorists.

Using information from residents, Iraqi forces captured Abdulla Maher Abdulrasheed, Marwan Taher Abdulrasheed and two others in Saddam's ancestral homeland of Tikrit on February 8, a statement said. Tikrit is 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Baghdad.

There are many more such instances of this but you won't find them widely reported in big media. For that you will have to turn to sites such as The Army News Service.

- That same day, the 3rd Police Commando Battalion captured 10 suspected insurgents based on intelligence obtained from detainees already in custody, and on March 12, the 1st Police Commando Battalion conducted a raid in a small village outside Balad based on a tip received by the commandos from a villager. The tip was accurate as the commandos netted five insurgents.

- The 3rd Battalion also discovered a sizeable cache of weapons in Samarra containing several new RPG launchers with night sights, ammunition, 50 mortar rounds, 12 grenades and two improvised explosive devices. Officials said the cache was under the floor of a house. Officials were led to the house after another tip informed the commandos of the cache.

- Adnan reported that citizens are steadily providing information about insurgents. Three separate IEDs were found and destroyed as a result of tips to Adnan’s office. The commandos are also receiving reports at their checkpoints: the 1st Battalion’s executive officer was handed a note at a checkpoint telling him where a known terrorist was sleeping.

Some of the captured terrorists are giving a glimpse from inside the crumbling insurgency.

Part of the Saudi’s disappointment with the insurgents, officials said, was that the insurgents did not pray regularly and “were only interested in money.” The insurgents, the Saudi said, were preoccupied with hijacking vehicles and the value of vehicles.

The Saudi admitted to officials that he “had made a huge mistake” by joining the insurgency and that he had a very different view of American Soldiers after watching them operate in Iraq. He had seen U.S. Soldiers giving candy to children and on one occasion, a U.S. Soldier waved to him.

The captured insurgent went on to say that he didn’t believe he would be a martyr if he died in Iraq, repeating several times to interviewers that insurgents were just involved for profit. When officials asked the Saudi why he didn’t leave the insurgency, he said he felt like a captive and feared for his life. He was relieved, he added, to be captured by the commandos.

If the Iraqis were smart they would put this guy on TV.

Chrenkoff reports on a groundswell of opposition to the terrorists from ordinary Iraqis.

In the stories of "community policing": "A group of Huriyah citizens captured four terrorists who were responsible for ambushes against security forces in Iraq along Highway 6. They kept hold of them Special Police Commandos could pick them up... Residents gathered outside to greet the commandos with applause. An announcement from the Mosque loudspeakers welcomed the arrival of the Iraqi Police." In one day of recent operations, Iraqi citizens led the troops to a roadside bomb north of Ar Ramadi, and to two weapons caches in Fallujah. Elsewhere, "opposition to the insurgency apparently boiled over into bloodshed yesterday 25 miles south of Baghdad as the townsmen of Wihda attacked militants thought to be planning a raid on the town and killed seven.

"The general public attitude towards insurgents and terrorists seems to be swinging away from passivity and towards open anger, as evidenced by the recent anti-terrorism rally in the aftermath of the deadly Hilla suicide bombing, as well as the condemnation of the attack (and attacks against civilians generally) by the main Sunni group, the Muslim Scholars Association (there are also reports that the Association is acting as an intermediary in negotiations between the authorities and some insurgent groups). You can also read this report on the growing public anger at the insurgents ("Iraq's majority Shiite Arabs and ethnic Kurds have long criticized the largely Sunni Arab insurgency, portraying the militants as terrorists, loyalists of the Saddam Hussein regime and foreign fighters. But the insurgents are now also being criticized publicly by prominent Sunnis, including opponents of the U.S. presence.") and more on the aftermath of the Hilla bombing. The latest polling from Baghdad also indicates the overwhelming determination of Iraqis to combat terrorism in their midst.

Don't be surprised if you've never heard any of this. Legacy media don't want you to know about it because it would force them to admit they were wrong and Bush was right. In their failure to report on the huge success story of Iraq, legacy media aid the terrorists for if more if this were reported the terrorist would crumble even faster. How many lives could be saved if the anti-American media would do their job and report the truth?

It's not just me making that claim. As I've reported before, a few in legacy media are starting to wake up to the fact that their failings are costing lives.

How bad are things? Well, CBS News Senior Foreign Correspondent Tom Fenton says, "We know we could have saved thousands of lives if we had done more to bring the public's attention to the threat of an Al-Qaeda attack in the years before 9/11. What we must ask now is why did we fail?"

Because you've failed Journalism 101; you fail to report the facts "without fear or favor". In short, you fail to tell the truth and you will continue to fail until you acknowledge that fact.
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