General Petraeus letter to troops

Can someone who knows what he was trying to say (other than a deserved congratulations to the troops for obeying orders)about what he called "Al Quieda-Iraq?"
It was my impression that the Shiites and the Sunnis were the ones doing the killing! These people are not Al Quieda or, "the camp" in English.
Osama Bin Laden financed the "camps" to train a few terrorists in Afghanistan, not in Iraq. Apparently all of them were not from Iraq, but Saudi Arabia and Africa.
If there is any substantial number of "the camp" people in Iraq, I don't know about it.
Maybe the General has been instructed to say "Al Quieda-Iraq" instead of Shiite terrorists, since he is trying to help form a government of those two sects, plus the Kurds--who are not Arab, but semi-Persians and Turks, mostly?
Be hard for him to say he is killing Shiites under those circumstances!

Good un

Submitted by Bonkers on Sun, 09/21/2008 - 1:15pm.

They air whar ye fin em! See above.

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Scores of Al Quieda

Submitted by d.smith700 on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 5:24pm.

are being trained in the mountains of Afghanistan and in the valley on the other side, in Pakistan's "tribal region."
(Do we have a tribal region here? Might it be Watts? Miami? New Orleans? South Texas? South Arizona? San Francisco? Eastern NJ?)
If we hadn't lost 45,000 dead and wounded (of ours only)in Iraq, I'll bet we could clean out that mountain and the "tribal" area!
Spent all of the money we had there also.

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You forgot...

Submitted by yardman5508 on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 9:03pm.

Idaho and Western Montana in your list of us "tribal regions" Keep the faith.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

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