{"id":559,"date":"2004-10-13T06:08:24","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T06:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:49","slug":"fallujah_report_check_this_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Fallujah Report: Check This<\/u> Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Washington Post, some awfully good news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Local insurgents in the city of Fallujah are turning against the foreign fighters who have been their allies in the rebellion that has held the U.S. military at bay in parts of Iraq’s Sunni Muslim heartland, according to Fallujah residents, insurgent leaders and Iraqi and U.S. officials.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is attributable, largely to two things – the military ineffectiveness of the outside terrorists, and in contrast, the military effectiveness of the Coalition and Iraqi forces.<\/p>\n

Residents say foreign fighters recently have taken to gathering in Fallujah’s grimy commercial district after being denied shelter in residential neighborhoods because their presence so often attracts U.S. warplanes. The airstrikes and the turmoil in the streets have spurred perhaps half of the city’s 300,000 residents to flee, residents and officials said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Local residents are done with them.<\/p>\n

“If the Arabs will not leave willingly, we will make them leave by force,” said Jamal Adnan, a taxi driver who left his house in Fallujah’s Shurta neighborhood a month ago after the house next door was bombed by U.S. aircraft targeting foreign insurgents.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They are taking matters into their own hands:<\/p>\n

One of the foreign guerrillas killed by local fighters was Abu Abdallah Suri, a Syrian and a prominent member of Zarqawi’s group. Suri’s body was discovered Sunday. He was shot in the head and chest while being chased by a carload of tribesmen, according to a security guard who said he witnessed the killing.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

Residents say foreign fighters recently have taken to gathering in Fallujah’s grimy commercial district after being denied shelter in residential neighborhoods because their presence so often attracts U.S. warplanes. The airstrikes and the turmoil in the streets have spurred perhaps half of the city’s 300,000 residents to flee, residents and officials said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now they are negotiating. One argument hawks (like me) have made is that military success will lead to diplomatic success – not the other way around. It appears that – like Libya – we may be seeing some signs that support that theory. <\/p>\n

Persistence is valuable, and now, more than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post covers the pressure on foreign fighters in Fallouja – by local tribesmen. Coalition military pressure seems to be having an effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}