Dead Emir's letter to Al-Qaeda:

"We are so desperate for your help".

You won't read this in the regular press, but Al -Jazeera reports that

"More raids by US and Iraqi forces were conducted against armed anti-government groups on Monday.

Sources said that 26 fighters were killed and 35 more were arrested in the preceding 24 hours in large-scale offensives in Diyala and Salahaddin provinces.

About 1,000 joint Iraqi military and police forces launched raids west of Samarra and Tikrit in Salahaddin, 175km north of the capital Baghdad, on Sunday.

They killed eight fighters and detained seven, Ahmed Sobhi, an officer in the province, said.

In Diyala, a joint US-Iraqi force killed 18 al-Qaeda fighters and detained 28 on Monday in a security offensive, media reports said. "

According to the Tehran Times, the Emir "had led a group of foreign militants in Iraq... [that] is linked to some of the bloodiest insurgent attacks in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. It was led by the Jordanian militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, until he was killed by a U.S. air strike in June 2006."

Hat Tip: Tigerhawk.



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