Ansar al-Bad Guys

An interesting article from Kurdish Media explores the roots, and connections between, Ansar al-Sunna and Ansar al-Islam, two jihad groups in Iraq.

Although not as strong as it once was, the arrest of Ansar al-Islam members in Kurdistan indicates that there are sleeper cells remaining in the area [1]. Ansar al-Islam members still operate inside Iraq but are now largely based in predominately Sunni Arab areas in central Iraq where they are able to operate more freely. Furthermore, Ansar al-Islam is active in Europe, recruiting, transporting and even training jihadists to fight in Iraq.
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Since its inception, Ansar al-Sunna has been responsible for some of the most vicious attacks in Iraq, including the coordinated Irbil bombings in February 2004, the suicide bombing of the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad, an ambush in which nine Spanish intelligence officers were killed and a suicide bombing at a U.S. army base near Mosul on December 21, 2004, which killed 22 people, including 14 U.S. military personnel.

The article has some interesting details on Ansar al-Islam's presence in Europe.

As Michael Ledeen touched on in a column, the enemy is everywhere. They hide and they hate, they watch and they plot. They take advantage of the open societies in the West to spread their networks.

And the opposition party here, the Dhimmicrats, can only sound like the Daughters of the Islamic Revolution Society, as Psycmeistr talks about here. If Leo sounds a little vexed, it's because his son joined that military Murtha said Americans shouldn't join, and is bound for Iraq with the Minnesota Guard. Without the support of our other major political party.

These jihad groups are not impressed by weakness. Do we still have it in us as a civilization to fight them?