Now That Al-Qaeda Is Gone

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Michael Totten reports from Ramadi. Parts 1 & 2

“All the tribes agreed to fight al Qaeda until the last child in Anbar,” the Sheikh’s brother Ahmed told a Reuters reporter.


They seemed to be proud that they were learning to read, and that women and girls were allowed to be schooled again now that Al Qaeda is gone.


“That’s when you know life is coming back to normal,” Sergeant Hicks said, “when they open a cell phone shop.”

Tell him we're pulling out.


Or her.