MORE GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ: INSURGENCY BREAKING; MORE SUNNI TRIBES BATTLING AL QAEDA

EVEN THE NYTIMES HAS TO REPORT NOW:

...the split within the insurgency is coinciding with Sunni Arabs' new desire to participate in Iraq's political process, and a growing resentment of the militants. Iraqis are increasingly saying that they regard Al Qaeda as a foreign-led force, whose extreme religious goals and desires for sectarian war against Iraq's Shiite majority override Iraqi tribal and nationalist traditions.

While American and Iraqi officials have talked of a split for months, detailed accounts of clashes were provided by men claiming to be local insurgents. ... According to an American and an Iraqi intelligence official, as well as Iraqi insurgents, clashes between Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and Iraqi insurgent groups like the Islamic Army and Muhammad's Army have broken out in Ramadi, Husayba, Yusifiya, Dhuluiya and Karmah. In town after town, Iraqis and Americans say, local Iraqi insurgents and tribal groups have begun trying to expel Al Qaeda's fighters, and, in some cases, kill them. ...

"The tribes are fed up with Al Qaeda and they will not tolerate any more," said a senior Iraqi intelligence official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The intelligence official confirmed reports that a Sunni tribe in Samarra had tried and executed Qaeda members for their role in assassinating a local sheik. "It was a beautiful mistake," the intelligence official said of the sheik's assassination by Al Qaeda. "Now the tribes will kill Al Qaeda. Now they have the courage."

THERE'S PLENTY MORE IN THIS FASCINATING ARTICLE. RTWT! This red-on-red VIOLENCE hasn't REALLY been reported on in the MSM since last summer, which means it must be picking up. IOW: WE ARE WINNING! (No thanks to Kerry and Murtha and Dean and Pelosi and Kennedy and Reid and Moran and McDermott and - of well, you get the idea!)