al-Qaeda in Iraq rises again - LATIMES, Sep 13.

Sheik Sabah Janabi wears a painful-looking metal brace on his left hand, its rods pressing into the puffy flesh like the spring on a mousetrap. He fumbles a Marlboro from a pack with his good hand, sucks in the smoke and frowns.

In this farming town that was a centerof extremism when Iraq fell into its nihilistic civil war, Janabi sits in a darkened room, his white shirt half tucked in and his blue tie slightly askew. He talks about how gunmen tried to kill him three months ago and describes himself as a leader under siege.

Al Qaeda in Iraq is back from the dead ...
Good article on how Iraqi government dysfunction and lack of support for former Sahwa leaders is allowing AQI to reestablish itself in some Sunni areas.