Cut and Run. Redeployment. Whatever you want to call it, it’s taking place. The left should be thrilled, right? Whoops, it’s not our troops that are being redeployed.

Some leaders of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and other extremist groups are fleeing Iraq with cash to escape US forces and possibly to try to regroup outside the country, a senior US commander said Monday.

Major General Mark Hertling, commander of US forces in northern Iraq, said other Al-Qaeda fighters are dispersing from cities into the desert because of fear of capture.

Ooo, ooo, take the money and run.

So, the surge isn’t working I guess.

“We have had many indications that many of them are leaving the country because of what they perceive as an increasing amount of pressure,” Hertling told reporters here via video link from Iraq.

“We’ve also had several indications that several of their leaders are leaving the country, leaving the country with cash, the cash that they were sent to pay fighters with,” he said.

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The dispersal of extremist fighters has also coincided with a spike in kidnapping for ransom, as fighters try to raise cash for themselves or their organizations.

“And this is not only AQI, this is also ISI, Islamic State of Iraq, and several of the other extremist groups,” he added.

He said they were leaving because of the intensified pressure from US and Iraqi security forces in the north, and fears that they will be “ratted out” by locals who now feel more confident about security.

This is redeployment that I can support.