Michael Totten Goes to Biara

We rarely just duplicate other people’s links, but here’s an exception: Michael Totten is in Iraq, and describes his tour of a town called Biara on the Iraq/Iran border. Zarqawi occupied Biara, along with Ansar al-Islam, until he was driven out by our invasion in 2003. This is the kind of first-hand reporting from Iraq that we need a great deal more of:

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