Thursday, May 03, 2007

Cracks Emerge in Al Qaeda in Iraq

This good news from the War on Terror is reported at the Counterterrorism Blog:

In the wake of the recent and very public rift between the Sunni Islamic Army of Iraq
(IAI) and Al-Qaida's "Islamic State"
, yet more cracks
are suddenly beginning to show in the unified jihadist coalition that Al-Qaida
has been trying to assemble in Sunni regions of Iraq. Today, the IAI--along with
factions from at least two other predominant Sunni militant groups, the
Mujahideen Army and the notorious Ansar al-Sunnah Army--have officially
announced the formation of their own separate political coalition: "The
Reformation and Jihad Front" (RJF). This new front would seem to be a direct
challenge to the authority of Al-Qaida's "Islamic State"...


Certainly, the RJF is no friend of America, or of democracy in
Iraq--but should it succeed, it will present an existential political threat to
the future of Al-Qaida in Iraq
.


The only "civil war" ongoing in Iraq seems to be among the minions of Bin Laden, the increasingly despised in the region jihadists.