As Iraqis' stand up....

Iraqi rebels turn on al-Qaeda
From Baghdad correspondents, The Australia

As the Cowboy Prez says... as Iraqis stand up, we'll stand down. And it appears not only are the Iraqis dedicated to making a go of an elected gov't standing up, even the rejectionists... or generic "insurgents", according to the MSM... are getting fed up with AQ.

IRAQI nationalist rebels in the Sunni Arab city of Ramadi have turned against their former al-Qaeda allies after a bomb attack this month killed 80 people, sparking tit-for-tat assassinations.

Residents today said at least three prominent figures on both sides were among those killed after local insurgent groups formed an alliance against al-Qaeda, blaming it for massacring police recruits in Ramadi on January 5.
"There was a meeting right after the bombings," one Ramadi resident familiar with the events said. "Tribal leaders and political figures gathered to form the Anbar Revolutionaries to fight al-Qaeda in Anbar and force them to leave the province.

"Since then there has been all-out war between them," said the resident in the capital of the sprawling western desert province of Anbar, speaking anonymously for fear of reprisals.

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On Thursday, three local Islamist groups around Ramadi - the 1920 Brigades, the Mujahideen Army and the Islamic Movement for Iraq's Mujahideen - also met to distance themselves from their fellow Islamists in Qaeda, joining the shift against al-Qaeda led by more secular, tribal and nationalist groups.

The pan-Arab Al Hayat newspaper quoted a statement from six Iraqi armed groups on Monday announcing they had united to form the "People's Cell" to confront Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and preserve security in the Anbar province.

The statement condemned "armed operations which target innocents" and affirmed "a halt to cooperation with al-Qaeda".

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