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(Post 1 of 3) This was actually a forwarded document that I am not sure how to post, nor sure if I should - - - copy and pasted text follows.

*Yesman,
One of my daily reports here I get in Iraqi. More and more woman are now
coming at Coalition forces as suicide bombers!

CDR "Girl Friend Free In Iraqi" USN

UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO
THE S.C.O.R.P.I.O.N.
DAILY WESTERN MEDIA ANALYSIS
SUICIDE ATTACKS KILL AT LEAST 26 7 DECEMBER 2007
Iraq Fact: Billy Joel’s new single, “December in Fallujah,” premiered December 4 on iTunes. Cass Dillon, a relatively new singer-songwriter, sings the music. On his website, Joel, who famously addressed the Vietnam War in “Goodnight Saigon,” said his new song is inspired by letters he received from soldiers who took solace in his music in Iraq. Proceeds from the song will be donated to Home for Our Troops, a nonprofit organization that builds specially adapted homes for severely disabled veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.


I. MOC Flashpoints
SUICIDE ATTACKS KILL AT LEAST 26
On Friday, the most prominent Iraq-related story in the Western press involved two suicide bombings in Diyala Province that left at least 26 people dead. According to news agencies, one of the two bombings was perpetrated by a woman, who was “wearing a vest packed with explosives...” The Associated Press cited an Iraqi official who claimed the woman “was seeking revenge for her two sons who were killed fighting for Al Qaeda.” Reuters provided a slightly different account, citing a “security source” that said the bomber “had three children who had been killed by Iraqi forces.” She reportedly targeted a building used by members of the 1920 Revolution Brigades, a group that Reuters noted, “were once one of the main groups of Sunni Arab insurgents fighting U.S. forces and the Shiite-led government...” However, in recent months, members have reportedly begun working alongside security forces against Al Qaeda. Most news sources did not express uncertainty about the bomber’s gender in their reports, but the NY Times, in its coverage, cited a police official who said that it “was not clear whether the bomber was a man or a woman because two heads were found alongside shredded bodies near the bombing site.” This attack killed 10 and wounded 27 people, according to police reports. In a second incident, also in Diyala, a car bomb killed seven Iraqi troops and three members of a local neighborhood patrol.
Several news sources reporting on the bombings today noted that the security crackdown has squeezed Al Qaeda militants out of their former strongholds in Baghdad and Anbar Provinces and caused them to shift north to Diyala [see cited NY Times article in December 6 SCORPION]. BBC correspondent Crispin Thorold in Baghdad noted that “Diyala has been the focus of some of the fiercest clashes in Iraq in recent months. Insurgents displaced from their former strongholds in Anbar province and parts of Baghdad are now thought to be in Diyala.” The NY Times, in its assessment, added, “A police official there said he expected attacks in Diyala to increase because local security forces were weak and Sunni extremists had established strong footholds across the province.”
Although militants are said to have shifted north in Iraq, an article in today’s Guardian Unlimited reported that the number of foreign jihadists entering Iraq has “fallen by nearly half in recent months as a result of tougher action by the country’s neighbors and the rejection of the ‘Al Qaeda-brand’ by ordinary Iraqis...” The newspaper interviewed the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus on Thursday, who said that, “There is still a lot of hard work to be done.” On the decline of foreign militants entering the country, he stated, “It's a result of source country
operations, the actions by certain countries, the issue of fatwas [such as in Saudi Arabia] condemning extremism, which have been hugely important in the effort.” Gen. Petraeus also credited Syria with “staunching” the flow by taking “more aggressive action against some foreign fighter facilities there.”