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Catherine Moy
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The United States is making major headway in Iraq and Afghanistan, as the mainstream media are beginning to report. But they still aren’t handing out the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
I am in contact with well-connected sources in D.C. and the Middle East who tell me that the United States is opening up a can of industrial-sized whoop-ass on our enemies. The “surge” is working, American and allied casualties are down, and tribal leaders are swearing on the Quran that they will get along.

This means less “insurgent” fighting and headbanging within rival tribes. A historic meeting among tribal leaders this week in Iraq means more peace, less crossfire for American and Allied troops.

One Sheik said the tribal people would run the terrorists out.

“Instead of cheering for the terrorists driving through the streets, the people will cheer for the Iraqi security forces in the streets, said Sheik Mahmood Abdul-Shinba Al-Hassani.”
“The terrorists are not that many,” said Sheik Adnan Abdul-Mehdi Al-Anbaki. “We have to stand together and we need to kill the terrorists. We know who they are.”

After discussing tribal differences and why it is important to unite, the sheiks signed a reconciliation agreement and swore over the Quran as a promise to uphold the agreement.

As stated in the Quran, “And hold fast, all together, by the rope which God (stretches out for you), and be not divided among yourselves,” the sheiks agreed to ten conditions.

Some conditions of the peace treaty include ending tribal conflicts and attacks; cooperating with the ISF; fighting al-Qaida, militia groups and other terrorist organizations; working with the security forces to eradicate corrupt members; returning displaced families to their homes; reporting and removing improvised explosive devices; and respecting all sects, religions and women’s rights.

TIKRIT, Iraq, Aug. 3, 2007 — Eighteen paramount tribal leaders representing 14 of the major tribes in Diyala province, Iraq, swore on the Quran and signed a peace agreement unifying the tribes in the battle against terrorism during a meeting at the Baqubah Government Center Aug. 2.

The meeting, led by Ra’ad Hameed Al-Mula Jowad Al-Tamimi, governor of Diyala; Staff Maj. Gen. Abdul Kareem, commander of Iraqi security forces (ISF) in Diyala province; and Col. David W. Sutherland, commander of coalition forces in Diyala, was attended by sheiks representing three Shiite tribes, 11 Sunni tribes and 60 of Diyala’s 100 sub-tribes.

If you want to know what’s going on in America’s war against radical Muslim Jihadists, you must go to the front lines. If you don’t have a flack jacket and can’t handle an M-16, you must listen to the experts who are taking the fire, speaking with commanders and tribal leaders, who have a lot of sway over Iraqi citizens.

As we know, Iraq has a high population of Muslims who honor the edicts of their spiritual leaders. If these leaders say Islam demands peacemaking among the tribes, then it is done. It is the crazies, such as al Sadr whose army gets funds and training from Iran, who are dangerous and order fatwas, or orders, to destroy the peacekeepers.

So the news is better and better out of Iraq. Violence continues, but peace is marching on.