MaxedOutMama
Monday, March 28, 2005
Sunni Resistance Fading?
No Oil For Pacifists has a roundup of recent indications that the Sunnis in Iraq may be thinking about coming in from the cold. One of his links is to an article by Amir Taheri in the Morroco Times on al Queda's slump:
The movement is also finding it increasingly difficult to attract new recruits, especially within the Muslim world. Even in Western Europe (where Muslim communities still represent fertile recruiting ground), the number of "volunteers" peaked in the fall of 2003 and has been falling since. . .As the foreign inflow dries up I would think the Sunnis would think things over and realize that there is no joy and no glory in getting your butts blown away by women and medics. Voting and working for a living has got to be looking more and more promising.
For the first time in two decades, the movement is also beginning to face fund-raising difficulties. The generous donations that indirectly came from various regional countries have stopped, while scores of bank accounts operated by the militants have been frozen.
