The offensive along the Euphrates River continues. I’ve posted on Operations Sword & Scimitar over at The Fourth Rail. Iraqi troops are beginning to garrison the cities involved in the recent operations with company sized units or larger, providing a nucleus of experienced troops to be built on when more become available.

As an aside, there has been excellent commentary on the 7/7 London attacks here at Winds and elsewhere, particularly at The Counterterrorism Blog and Belmont Club. In light of attack on London, Marvin Hutchens and I decided to work on a web presentation charting al Qaeda’s major attacks since forming the International Islamic Front in 1998. We feel this is the perfect time to remind the public of al Qaeda’s persistent attacks against governments and peoples throughout the entire world. We hope to release this presentation shortly.