Informed Malice

"So I was reading this week about the capture of one of Zarqawi's murderous thugs, this one an Iraqi who had joined to kill his fellow Iraqis and presumably re-establish the Caliphate. I'm always glad to learn about the capture of these characters. But then I encountered this ominous sentence:

"There is increasing and alarming evidence that the Zarqawi organization is putting down deep grass roots among Sunni Arab Iraqis themselves, rather than remaining or being coded as foreign."

Uh-oh, I thought. That would really be a dreadful development. There was a news story linked to this dramatic assertion, and as I moved to click on the link, I considered the various possibilities. Did the captured thug brag to his captors about
Zarqawi's "deep grass roots among Sunni Arab Iraqis"? Was the captured thug one of an increasing number of captured Iraqi followers of Zarqawi, demonstrating these "deep grass roots"? Was there something about his capture, perhaps resistance by numerous other Sunni Iraqis, that may have illustrated such "deep grass roots"? Maybe there were captured documents, or a statement from Iraqi or American security authorities, or reports from Arab news organizations, or another Zarqawi video tape."
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