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Published: 11/8/07

Al-Qaeda Driven from Baghdad

By  Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily
Al-Qaeda Driven from Baghdad

In more stunning good news from Iraq, a United States commander has said that the al-Qaeda terrorist group known as al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia has been routed out of the capital Baghdad. Major General Joseph Fil, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, made the statements yesterday, declaring the city to be 87% cleared and the terrorist group's operations there to be all but eliminated.Fil's comments come on the heels of a U.S. commander's prediction that troops in Anbar Province could soon begin reducing their presence in that formally troubled part of the country. The news about Baghdad is the ...

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