Another One Bites the Dust

The Golden Dome Mosque.

Al Qaeda’s last stand in Iraq -the one operation that could have split the country and forced an open civil war- failed. One of the scumbags that planned it was rounded up by the Iraqis:

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Eleven Sunni insurgent groups have offered an immediate halt to all attacks — including those on American troops — if the U.S. agrees to withdraw foreign forces from Iraq in two years, insurgent and government officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

In other developments Wednesday, a top Iraqi security official on Wednesday said authorities had arrested a key al Qaeda suspect wanted in the bombing of the Shiite Golden Dome shrine last February in Samarra.

Terrorism is still a huge slice of the violence pie in Iraq, but ethno-sectarian killings are by far the most dangerous and easily spread method of mayhem. The terrorists, mostly AQ, took up the strategy of trying to foment ethno-sectarian strife, and thought that the Golden Mosque bombing would be the key to destroying the young democracy. They were wrong. Now the guy that planned it is in custody, likely coughing up the whereabouts of his cell like the coward he is.

AQ is on the run in Iraq, we’ve got the initiative back, and freedom is on the march.