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Bad news for the white-flag brigade: the good guys (the United States) has cleaned house in Baghdad and can now reduce troop levels there.

The International Herald Tribue reports:

American forces have routed Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia from every neighborhood of Baghdad, a top American general said Wednesday, allowing for a reduction of U.S. troops to pre-surge levels and an increased focus on Shiite militias.
Major-General Joseph Fil, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, said that American troops have yet to clear 13 percent of the city, including Sadr City and several other neighborhoods controlled by Shiite militias. But, he said, “there’s just no question” that violence has been reduced since a spike in June.
“Murder victims are down 80 percent from where they were at the peak” he said. “IED attacks are down 70 percent.”

And Reuters adds more good news:

Americans cannot win unless the enemy within grips our government.

Hooray for our team! Boo-friggin’-hoo for the losers (Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Ted Knnedy, and various spineless republicans.
As we at Move America Forward have said all along: Give our troops the time and resources, and they will NOT be beaten. Hoo-ah!!

Peace in the Land

Michael Yon brings more truth from Iraq

Thanks and Praise: I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John’s Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome.
A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from “Chosen” Company 2-12 Infantry to the church, where I videotaped as Muslims and Christians worked and rejoiced at the reopening of St John’s, an occasion all viewed as a sign of hope.
The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. ” Thank you, thank you,” the people were saying. One man said, “Thank you for peace.” Another man, a Muslim, said “All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian, is brother.” The men and women were holding bells, and for the first time in memory freedom rang over the ravaged land between two rivers.

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(This is a dungeon used by terrorists in Iraq to hide prisoners whom they regularly torture)

As a journalist, I strive to bring news to readers that they won’t get elsewhere. Here at Move America Forward, we search and scan sources from around the world to find stories related to our mission: to support our troops and their missions.

Today, let’s start with news from Iraq, where our troops are cleaning house. Never mind what you’ve heard from Sens. Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton. The United States and its allies, including Iraqi forces, are wiping out nests of terrorists around the world while assisting children and families with their health needs.

Here’s a story from the front lines describing how our troops are snuffing out terrorists with the help of Iraqi civilians who are sick and tired of the crazies destroying their homes and communities:

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces found an alleged terrorist detention facility and several weapons caches Friday during an operation to disrupt al-Qaida and foreign terrorist operations in central Iraq.

Intelligence gained from previous coalition forces operations led the ground force to an area believed to be a safe haven for foreign terrorists. In the 24-hour operation in west Samarra, coalition forces discovered a bunker allegedly used as a terrorist detention facility and an area with several hidden weapons caches. Among other weapons, ammunition and military equipment, the ground forces found anti-aircraft weaponry, 12 AK-47 rifles, 18 mortar tubes, 37 mortar rounds, four rocket propelled grenades, 96 RPG fuses, and eight RPG launchers. Logistical supplies, to include hygiene kits, propane tanks, lanterns, blankets and a space heater, were also found on site by coalition forces.

An expert explosives team was used to safely destroy the detention facility to prevent further use by terrorists, and supporting aircraft was called to destroy the weapons, which were consolidated into a nearby bunker.

“There is no place al-Qaida in Iraq can hide where we won’t find them and their weapons of terror,” said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesperson. “Iraqi and coalition forces will continue to root out al-Qaida, securing a safer future for the people of Iraq.”

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News is never pretty in a war zone. But a wave of positive developments, brought to all of us from America’s troops’ determination, is overwhelming the naysayers and peddlers of negativism.
Michael Yon, among the best reporters in the war zone, reports today that al Qaida is defeated. We’ve heard that the evil organization has failed in its bloody plan to cause an all-out civil war between Sunnis and Shiites. American commanders and diplomats have told us this.

But now the Iraqi Islamic Party has announced the death-knell of al Qaida. Michael Yon reports:

“Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated,” according to Sheik Omar Jabouri, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the widespread and influential Jabouri Tribe. Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad, Sheik Omar said that al Qaeda had been “defeated mentally, and therefore is defeated physically,” referring to how clear it has become that the terrorist group’s tactics have backfired. Operatives who could once disappear back into the crowd after committing an increasingly atrocious attack no longer find safe haven among the Iraqis who live in the southern part of Baghdad.  They are being hunted down and killed.  Or, if they are lucky, captured by Americans.
Colonel Ricky Gibbs, the American brigade commander with responsibility for the Rashid District in south Baghdad today told me, “So goes South Baghdad goes Baghdad.” General Petraeus had told me similar things about the importance of South Baghdad. In fact, Rashid is quickly developing into what might be one of the final serious battlegrounds of the war.

So where are the headlines? Did the New York Times, which has so often divulged top secrete programs to protect Americans, miss this story?

If you want the real news, you must go to Michael Yon Online
Congratulations Gen. David Petraeus and all of our troops. And good work, Michael.