Once for Iraq, once for the US, and once for al Qaeda. "Yet the bid to bring the Iraqi resistance groups under the banner of al-Qaida has not just failed. It has spectacularly backfired," writes Jason Burke at London's Guardian.

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Once for Iraq, once for the US, and once for al Qaeda. "Yet the bid to bring the Iraqi resistance groups under the banner of al-Qaida has not just failed. It has spectacularly backfired," writes Jason Burke at London's Guardian.

Authors Bio:

Russ Wellen is the nuclear deproliferation editor for OpEdNews. He's also on the staffs of Freezerbox and Scholars & Rogues.

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