Al Qaeda in Iraq is Defeated

From Michael Yon:

“Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated,” according to Sheik Omar Jabouri, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the widespread and influential Jabouri Tribe. Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad, Sheik Omar said that al Qaeda had been “defeated mentally, and therefore is defeated physically,” referring to how clear it has become that the terrorist group’s tactics have backfired. Operatives who could once disappear back into the crowd after committing an increasingly atrocious attack no longer find safe haven among the Iraqis who live in the southern part of Baghdad. They are being hunted down and killed. Or, if they are lucky, captured by Americans.

Let us sincerely hope so. The situation in Iraq reminds me of war game simulations that I used to run. You'd be fighting forever, apparently making no progress against an enemy who seems to have infinite reserves, and then suddenly the front collapses like a wet paper bag and what's left of the hostiles is running for the hills.

Update:

Some graphic evidence.