HVT #6 – al-Qaeda's Emir of Anbar Province Killed

"Khalid Mahal, the Emir of Anbar Province, and his aide Nasif Al-Mawla have been killed in operations

Task Force 145, the global hunter-killers of high value al-Qeda targets, is conducting a full court press in Iraq. The Kuwaiti News Agency reports al-Qaeda's Emir in Anbar province, Khalid Mahal, and Nasif Al-Mawla, his aide, were killed during an operation in the Thar Thar region. An American intelligence source will not comment on Mahal's death but did state “operations are ongoing."

Regional emirs are essentially military commanders (or senior generals in western terms), and Mahal would have reported directly to the Mujahdeen Shura, al-Qaeda's leadership council in Iraq."
The Fourth Rail

From this and other resent news, I have concluded that the story of the Anbar tribes turning towards the US and the Iraqi government must be true. Hopefully the tide will turn, Anbar and Baghdad will quite down and we will be able to turn out attention towards the south.