15 June Washington Times - Papers Reveal Weakening Terror Group by Rowan Scarborough.

The U.S. military in recent weeks has seized a "huge treasure" of intelligence materials on al Qaeda in Iraq, including a revealing document in which the terror group acknowledges its own "bleak situation" caused by losses on both the public relations and war fronts.

The documents seized in the weeks leading up to the June 7 killing of Abu Musab Zarqawi also have provided intelligence that has helped direct nearly 500 allied combat operations and resulted in the killings of 104 insurgents, the U.S. command in Baghdad said yesterday...

The seized al Qaeda in Iraq document released yesterday reflects discouragement by the terror group's leadership.

"Time is now beginning to be of service to the American forces and harmful to the resistance," the documents state.

It lists a number of allied successes against the terrorist "resistance":

• "Undertaking massive arrest operations, invading regions that have an impact on the resistance, and hence causing the resistance to lose many of its elements."

• "Undertaking a media campaign against the resistance resulting in weakening its influence inside the country and presenting its work as harmful to the population rather than being beneficial to the population."

• "By tightening the resistance's financial outlets, restricting its moral options and by confiscating its ammunition and weapons."

• "By taking advantage of the resistance's mistakes and magnifying them in order to misinform."

Zarqawi's strategy, as disclosed in previously seized letters, was to spark a civil war between Sunni Muslims, who supported Saddam Hussein, and the majority Shi'ites, who now hold political power. Zarqawi did this by recruiting foreign Sunni suicide bombers to attack Shi'ite markets, schools, mosques and other public places...
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