September 19, 2006
As-yet unsubstantiated reports have begun circulating on radical Arabic-language Internet chat forums that a major effort is now underway to bring the notorious Ansar al-Sunnah Army in Iraq officially under the umbrella of Al-Qaida's Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC).Read the rest if you are interested in how jihadis organize terror in Iraq. Evan seems to think that Ansar formally joining the MSC is a bad sign. Personally, I don't think it matters either way. What the second phase of the Iraq war has shown us is that operational control really is insignificant and that the tactics of al Qaeda 3.0 are even more effective than that of al Qaeda 3.0, perfected under Zarqawi.
Also, it seems to me that the MSC is nothing more than a unified PR front. Instead of Ansar issuing their own statements, they will simply feed their propaganda through the MSC machinery.
Lastly, from a counter-terror standpoint, Ansar joining the MSC could be used to our advantage. For those who think about these things, let me leave it at: Kirkuk, Peshmerga, fahget about the Geneva Conventions, and then connect the dots from there.
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Secondly, the reason this is significant is this makes it increasingly less likely the Unity Govt will be able to make a peace with the Sunnis. In order to defeat the Mahdi and al-Sadr they need to isolate them as much as possible. Bringing the minority Sunni factions into the fold would have been a step in that direction. N ow that they have aligned with AQ it will be almost impossible to get the US command to buy into any amnesty at all for the Sunni insurgents. Besides AQ was losing influence in Iraq. With this union they re-establish an image of power and legitimacy in the eyes of the Sunni people. This will also provide further impetous to the effort on the Shiite side to continue building forces and advance their plans to take over Iraq via force.
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