Al Qaeda softening up Iraq, readying it for the Muslim Bastardhood

Al Qaeda's mayhem in Iraq has already killed more than 6K people and injured thousands more.  Besides that, the terror mongers have managed to send thousands more, both Sunni and Shiite,  away from cities and towns, to far away remote places in order to save themselves and their families.  It's especially hard for the Iraqis who fought alongside US soldiers or showed alliance to the invading Americans. The clear cut message from Al Qaeda, especially to Sunnis  working in the Shiite government is that they  better resign and vamoose if  they know what's good for you.  And, they are doing just that.

Suadad al-Salhy writing at Reuters via Yahoo:
Ahmed froze as he opened the small white envelope left on his doorstep in the Iraqi town of Latifiya. Shaking, he looked around before reading the words scrawled on the envelope. Inside was a bullet.

"The message was clear: I must leave or I will be slaughtered," said Ahmed, who immediately left home with his family and is now living with relatives in another town.
Ahmed, who did not want his full name used, was targeted for belonging to a government-backed Sunni Muslim militia formed at the height of Iraq's sectarian conflict in late 2006, when Sunni tribesmen joined forces with U.S. troops and rebelled against al Qaeda in what came to be known as the "Sahwa" (Awakening).
But the tide is now turning back toward al Qaeda and other Islamist insurgents whose onslaught against the Shi'ite-led government and its allies has killed more than 6,000 people this year in an ominous echo of the bloodshed that peaked in 2006-07.
Iraqi security officials blame the surge in violence partly on a lack of cooperation from Sahwa fighters who feel they were not rewarded as promised for taking on al Qaeda earlier and have been left to face the backlash from the militants alone.
"Since 2006, we have fought al Qaeda and arrested so many of those criminals but today we are going to back to square one," said Sheikh Aref al-Jumaili, a tribal leader from a town in Anbar province, Iraq's Sunni heartland.
"We cannot fight them now. They will kill us and get revenge because we fought them with American support. Today this government is not able to protect or support us."
In their heyday, the Sahwa mustered around 103,000 men, but the number has declined to no more than 38,000 since the U.S. military relinquished security control in Iraq in 2010, according to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's reconciliation adviser Amir al-Khuzaie.
Some were hired as civil servants, integrated into the ministries of defense and interior or given early retirement.........