Counter Insurgency = teh fun!!1

1,500 British troops should leave Iraq in the next "several weeks." They expect to have only 3,000 of their current 7,200 left by the end of 2007.

Meanwhile, in Somalia, we find out that not only does invading Muslim countries for no good reason and occupying them indefinitely not work well, but convincing proxy states to do it also sucks.

And here's more stuff on Afghanis and Iraqis (and Al-Qaeda!) trading all the awesome new tactics they are developing fighting the American occupation. I wrote about that here and here.

And according to Fox, this Texan was training with Al-Qaeda in Somalia, so presumably the Islamic Courts Union there will be using those same tactics any day now.