AQI

Llewtrah, AQI is unbelievably infectious – you need to be strong to resist it.

Pedant’s Revolt « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008

AQI is an enemy of the Shi’ite religious parties that Iran actually does support.

Ledeen Once Again Has His Hand on the Iranian Pulse « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

(The usual caveats apply: AQI is barbaric, dastardly and intent on violating the Qu'ran by engaging in the annihilation of innocents.

McCain’s Iraq Fantasia - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

Like his asserion that he would like to keep troops in country to continue fighting with AQI, that is a conscious choice that tells a great deal about him and his committment to really conclude the hostilities in Iraq.

Obama's Full Iraq Speech 2009

Not only do none of the conservative commentators even raise this question, the one who does name AQI as the likely perpetrators then does not repudiate the claim about al Qaeda!

Seeing What We Want to See in What We Can Barely Stand to Look At « Lean Left 2007

Not only do none of the conservative commentators even raise this question, the one who does name AQI as the likely perpetrators then does not repudiate the claim about al Qaeda!

2007 July 01 « Lean Left 2007

The report attributes the high profile attacks suicide attacks and car bombings that take large civilian casualties to "AQI", but this fits too easily into the occupation narrative: the truth is that there are a number of groups - still a minority of resistance fighters - who are using these tactics.

Latest Iraqi resistance stats Abhay N 2007

And in a country with a stratospheric unemployment rate, AQI was paying its foot soldiers salaries and raking in millions of dollars from various oil smuggling scams, kidnapping rings, extortion schemes, and overseas donations.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Similarly, a letter found by the U.S. military around the same time and written by an unnamed emir of AQI referred to the situation in Anbar province in western Iraq as being “an exceptional crisis.”

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

And in a country with an unemployment rate of something like 50 percent, AQI was paying its foot soldiers salaries and raking in money from various oil-smuggling scams, kidnapping rings, extortion schemes, and overseas donations.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011