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Al-Qaeda in disarray as Iraqi Sunnis turn against them
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| News Date | Friday, January 13, 2006 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Al-Qaeda in Iraq is in disarray with many killed or captured, and Sunni supporters increasingly turning against them, a top US commander in Iraq said.
Lieutenant General John Vines said a variety of intelligence indicates that most of the violence currently shaking Iraq is not being conducted by Al-Qaeda but by other Iraqi insurgent groups.
"So there are a fair number of indicators that tell us currently Al-Qaeda in Iraq is in disarray," he told reporters here via video link from Baghdad.
"Does it have the capability to regenerate? Unfortunately it could," he said.
"But we must keep the pressure on, we must maintain the offensive to deny them the caliphate they would like to establish so they can attack you and other people."
Vines said large numbers of followers of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, have been killed or captured in recent months, including in a series of US offensives along the Euphrates river and along the Syrian border.
"Some of them went to the hereafter," he said. "Many of them are dead."
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