Iraq terror attacks down 94% over last year

Posted on 06/11/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Check out this statistic from a story in the Guardian, a decidedly anti-war newspaper:

Evidence of al-Qaida’s problems in Iraq is weighty and convincing. It has been badly hit by the fightback from the American-backed Sunni “Sons of Iraq” and the US troop “surge”. Western intelligence agencies estimate that the number of foreign fighters is down to single figures each month. The border with Syria is now harder to cross.

Iraq-watchers point, too, to financial strain caused by the arrests of al-Qaida sympathisers in Saudi Arabia, mafia-like disputes over alcohol licences and difficulties recruiting the right calibre of people. Last month, a sympathetic website carried a study showing a 94% decline in operations over a year. The Islamic State of Iraq claimed 334 operations in November 2006 but just 25 a year later. Attacks dropped from 292 in May 2007 to 16 by mid-May this year.

Only last year, Harry Reid told us the war was lost. The surge wouldn’t work. It was a waste of time, money, and lives.

Hm.

a 94% decline in operations over a year.

I’m thinking Reid may have been wrong.

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5 Responses to Iraq terror attacks down 94% over last year

  1. John M says:
    06/11/2008 at 11:07 am

    But you see Meryl, it doesn’t matter that we’re winning, because Bush is Hitler and anything he does, we must hate, successful or not.

  2. Sabba Hillel says:
    06/11/2008 at 12:23 pm

    http://www.web-view.net/Show/0X3C022BD9065E0371BC987E6C08E8A6800EC6FA312BDC14380A2BFDDBE467C819.htm#126448

    From Arutz Sheva

    I wonder if Iraq will actually be willing to help stop terror once it is not longer threatened.

    3. Iran Counter-Threatens ‘Painful’ Response, Signs Pact With Iraq
    by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

    Iran Signs Defense Pact With Iraq
    It remains an open question as to what a potential Israeli strike on Iran would precipitate in the larger Arab-Israeli arena.

    On Monday, Iran and Iraq signed a Memorandum of Understanding on bilateral defense cooperation. The agreement lays out the basis for an “expansion of defense cooperation between the two countries,” according to Iran’s official IRNA news agency. The agreement is expected to play a role in influencing Baghdad to refuse an American request that US troops be allowed to remain in Iraq past the end of 2008.

    In addition to its defense pact with Iraq, Iran signed a similar Memorandum of Understanding with Syria in 2006. Iran and Syria cooperate in supplying and supporting the Hizbullah terrorist organization endeavoring to take over Lebanon, on Israel’s northern border.

  3. Joshik says:
    06/11/2008 at 1:27 pm

    Great – we’ve won! So let’s declare victory and get the hell out of there!

    And John M – the Bush/Hitler comparisons aren’t fair. Hitler was democratically elected.

  4. Meryl Yourish says:
    06/11/2008 at 2:10 pm

    Oh, come on. So was George W. Bush. In every single recount the New York Times tried, Bush won Florida.

    I repeat to you what I said in 2000: If Al Gore had won HIS HOME STATE, he’d have won the election.

    Let’s not pretend it was “stolen.”

  5. Morton A. Goldberg, DVM says:
    06/11/2008 at 10:27 pm

    I have lived in Tennessee, in a county (Wilson) next door to Gore’s home county (Smith), since 1971. Gore used to be my Congressman, then my Senator. Not only didn’t he carry his home state in 2000, he couldn’t even carry traditionally Democrat Wilson County. The reason is simple: those who know him best like him least. We know first hand what a shameless hypocrite and pompous ass he is.

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