Commander Says al-Qaida ‘Virtually Destroyed’ in Kirkuk

Army Col. David Paschal, commander of 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, said that as security improves in Iraq’s Kirkuk province and that coalition and Iraqi forces have “virtually destroyed” al-Qaida in Iraq in the region [snip]

The Sons of Iraq program has been a cornerstone to security in the region, he said, noting that 400 men who were part of the Sons of Iraq program from the brigade’s Arab areas are graduating from two months of police training this week [snip]

“The information and actionable intelligence that they provide has grown exponentially,” he said. “That actionable intelligence is in the form of the turning of caches, location of [roadside bombs] and, in many cases, instances of insurgent or terrorist leaders throughout the province,”

[it's all about intelligence: with it, we win - without it... And FISA?]

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