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Albert Anker: Girl with dominoes, 2nd half of 19th century

A.J. Strata brilliantly calls it the Zarqawi Domino.

Let the dominoes keep falling.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - American and Iraqi forces have carried out 452 raids since last week’s killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and 104 insurgents were killed during those actions, the U.S. military said Thursday.

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said the raids were carried out nationwide and led to the discovery of 28 significant arms caches.

He said 255 of the raids were joint operations, while 143 were carried out by Iraqi forces alone. The raids also resulted in the captures of 759 “anti-Iraqi elements.”

A treasure trove of documents were found in Zarqawi’s safe-house.

Let’s hope that the dominoes continue to fall in Iraq and that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has great success but I am not in favor of this plan.

There is more discussion at Hot Air.

Good news is breaking out all over for our troops and President Bush……….

Just when the Bush presidency seems down for the count, the president comes back fighting.

It started last week with the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and the completion of the Iraqi government.

Another domino falls…….

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The Iraqi government has said the reign of terror of Al-Qaeda in Iraq was nearing its end, as a massive security crackdown in Baghdad entered its second day.

The mine of information from Al-Qaeda documents seized after its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed spelt “the beginning of the end” for the terror group, according to Iraq’s national security advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubaie.

“We believe Al-Qaeda in Iraq was taken by surprise, they did not anticipate how powerful the Iraqi security forces are and how the government is on the attack now,” Rubaie told a news conference.

He said the documents had given Iraq an “edge over Al-Qaeda and will also give us the whereabouts of their network and their leaders and their weapons, and the way they lead the organisation and the whereabouts of their meetings”.

The documents were seized from the rubble of of Zarqawi’s safe house on June 7 following its destruction in a US air strike, as well as in a series of subsequent raids in Baghdad.

The prime minister’s office, citing one of the documents, disclosed that Zarqawi aimed to widen the rift between the United States and Iran with kidnappings and assassinations against US interests falsely attributed to Iran.

In what the government dubbed Zarqawi’s “plan of death and destruction”, he voiced doubt whether “America is truly an enemy of Iran because of the large support that Iran provided America in its wars against Afghanistan and Iraq”.

Powerline calls it The Beginning of the End?

Iraq’s National Security Adviser, Mouwafak al-Rubaie:

“We believe that this is the beginning of the end of al-Qaida in Iraq,” al-Rubaie said, adding that the documents showed al-Qaida is in “pretty bad shape,” politically and in terms of training, weapons and media.

“Now we have the upper hand,” he said at a news conference in Baghdad. “We feel that we know their locations, the names of their leaders, their whereabouts, their movements, through the documents we found during the last few days.”

Little Green Footballs takes down another media attempt to slime the troops.

Meanwhile the Demos don’t understand Dominoes.

Brit Hume calls the Dems plan “Win by leaving.” Does that ever work in any game of leisure? So how will it work in war?

Our troops do love sports and games and Michelle Malkin breaks the news that Rupert Murdoch is helping the troops in Iraq to see the World Cup.

Here is a fun online Dominoes game.