{"id":32315,"date":"2012-10-09T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32315"},"modified":"2012-10-09T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:44:14","slug":"another-security-policy-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32315","title":{"rendered":"Another security policy failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that al Qaeda in Iraq is making a big comeback what with the vacuum we left behind, the unpreparedness of local forces to assume their own security responsibilities and political in fighting;<\/p>\n

Iraq has seen a jump in al-Qaida attacks over the last 10 weeks, and officials believe most of the fighters are former prisoners who have either escaped from jail or were released by Iraqi authorities for lack of evidence after the U.S. military withdrawal last December. Many are said to be Saudi or from Sunni-dominated Gulf states.<\/p>\n

During the war and its aftermath, U.S. forces, joined by allied Sunni groups and later by Iraqi counterterror forces, managed to beat back al-Qaida’s Iraqi branch.<\/p>\n

But now, Iraqi and U.S. officials say, the insurgent group has more than doubled in numbers from a year ago – from about 1,000 to 2,500 fighters. And it is carrying out an average of 140 attacks each week across Iraq, up from 75 attacks each week earlier this year, according to Pentagon data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the left told me that the only reason Iraqis had security problems is because we were there. Well, now we’re not there and the problems are growing, apparently. Maybe if this administration had been able to negotiate a continued presence there, our troops would be able to help the Iraqis police their country. <\/p>\n

Intelligence indicates as many as 2,500 al-Qaida fighters are now living in five training camps in the al-Jazeera area, according to two other senior Iraqi security officials. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information, estimated that only 700 al-Qaida fighters were in Iraq when U.S. troops withdrew. Six months earlier, in June 2011, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the U.S. Senate that 1,000 al-Qaida remained in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess no one could have predicted this, unless they had more than a half-a-brain, and were able to think beyond empty platitudes and anti-war bumper sticker slogans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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