Al Qaeda Assassinates Sunni Insurgent Leader?

Seems so:

A few hours after the LAT story [about Sunnis negotiating to join an anti-Al Qaeda front with the US and Iraqi governments], Reuters hit the wire with a report of jihadis having killed the son of Thahir al-Dari, a prominent Sunni sheikh in Anbar who’s joined the tribal “awakening” against AQ. The son’s name: Harith al-Dari. Turns out Harith’s uncle, also named Harith al-Dari, leads the jihadist Muslim Scholars’ Association and opposes the anti-AQ “awakening.” He’s been called “Iraq’s most wanted Sunni leader.”

A thoroughly professional digest, as usual, from Allah.

One question: Though I'm perfectly open to partitioning Iraq (and sometimes quite in favor of it), why is it that now, when there actually is good evidence we're winning this thing and national reconcilliation is possible, is Allah, and Christopher Hitchens too, "coming around" to supporting the idea?

It's an idea that should never been dismissed out of hand, but there seems less reason for it at the current moment.

Assuming present trends continue, of course, which is always a jackassumption, but I've got a good feeling about all of this. For the first time in two long bloody years.

posted by Ace at 07:17 PM

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