The plan might be working.....?

We hear so much about how their is NO PLAN win the Iraq conflict. GWB keeps insisting that the plan is to establish democratic institutions, engender pluralism, and train an Iraqi security force. THIS REPORT suggest that even the last of those aims might be beginning to take shape.

It tells us how the Iraqi forces have captured a top Zarqawi aid. Some people will no doubt be nay-sayers and suggest that this is no progress at all. Yet, even if Zarqawi was himself captured the nay-sayers would be nay-sayers, because any good news is bad news for those who are opposed to the war on principle.


UPDATE: More good news.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Security forces killed Al Qaeda's leader in Saudi Arabia, who topped the nation's list of most-wanted militants, during a fierce gunbattle Sunday, an Interior Ministry official said.

Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari, a Moroccan, was killed during a dawn raid by security forces on an area in the capital where suspected militants were hiding, the official was quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency as saying.

Three other unidentified suspects were arrested, and weapons, ammunition, computers and documents were seized, he said.

The clashes took place in the Rawdah district, an upscale neighborhood in eastern Riyadh, Interior Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said.

The unidentified official quoted by SPA said al-Hayari headed Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network in the kingdom, which has been ravaged by terrorist attacks during more than two years of violence.