Shifting Al Queda Tactics

A Washington Post report on AQI trying to get their act back together.

I never think we should underestimate these guys, so I figure, keep the pressure up and the the prizes for siding with America and the Iraqi government high. Get them some of the damn oil money and threaten to take it away should they veer back to AQI.

My favorite bits:

-- "Al-Qaeda is almost done and finished. It no longer scares anyone," he said. "It is like an old man on the verge of his grave."

And

-- The emir cited Muhammad, a 6-foot-3 computer major born in a Western European country, who crossed the Syrian border about a year ago with dreams of carrying out a suicide bombing in Iraq.

But when he arrived in Anbar, there was no mission for him.

Poor baby.