Shabab Al Iraq carried an editorial with the headline "Analysis of the reasons for the improvement in the security situation in Iraq."
It said that in order to accurately diagnose the security situation in Iraq, there should be a "detailed study" of local and non-local factors.
The paper started with the resistance's "background," which involves different groups with different goals and strategies that are sometimes contradictory and hurt the real "resistance."
It listed the types of resistance groups as: first; the real resistance, a small group of Sunnis and Shiites that became lost among other groups and whose goal is to evict occupation forces. Second, the Baathists and former army members who used Islamic names for disguise; their goal is to take back power in Iraq, the paper said. Third, groups that are motivated by Islam and ethnicity; these groups entered Iraq to fight and liberate Iraq but later on were exploited by the Baathists and al-Qaida and were used as tools to attack with. Fourth, al-Qaida, which is a radical movement ... that fights the occupiers. Fifth, insurgent groups that carry out the Arab countries' agendas after it became clear the United States came to the Middle East to change the political and geographic map of the region.
"The U.S. administration's media campaign against the "oppressive" systems in the Middle East as well as other U.S. moves made Arab countries use their funds to form armed groups to strike the American project in Iraq so it can't move outside Iraq's borders," it said.
The paper also said that Arab countries used their media to attack the "oppressive Shiite government" and refer to the Iraqi Sunnis as "oppressed," thereby motivating Sunni groups inside Iraq.
"The operations that this last group carries out are against the Iraqi civilians, Iraqi institutes, properties, and against U.S. forces aiming to confuse the latter and destabilize the situation," it said.
On the reasons for the relatively calm in Iraq, the editorial said that when Arab governments succeeded in confusing the U.S. project, they had the opportunity to convince the U.S. administration to change its policies and strategies in Iraq as it is known the Arab counties are "disturbed" by the role given to the Shiite government in Iraq.
"The Arab countries didn't only aim to confuse the U.S., but they also didn't want the Shiite to control Iraq," the paper said.
The paper said the United States absorbed Arab anger by giving the Palestinian issue more attention, and getting these countries' attention against Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Sadr movement in Iraq.
"With the many visits that Condoleezza Rice made to the Middle East to gain the Arab countries' support, the Anbar Salvation Council was formed, which led to a considerable decrease of car bombs and led to al-Qaida losing many of its safe havens," the paper said.
It added that instead of the United States carrying out attacks against insurgents in Fallujah and Ramadi, attacks were taking place in Diwanyah, south of Baghdad, with announcements that the United States with the support of Awakening Councils, were arresting outlaws from the Sadr movement and that they found Iranian bombs factories.
"This move was followed by firing thousands of policemen and soldiers form the government accusing them of being sectarian, and replaced by 70,000 Awakening Councils members," the paper said.
It said the United States also replaced the de-Baathification committee in the Parliament with the so-called "Justice and Questioning committee."
"Alas," the paper said, "people feel the situation is getting more stable when the U.S. is working with the Sunnis as well as the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, a Shiite party that backs the U.S. presence."
It said U.S. forces succeeded in "emptying the field" to the Baathists and in spreading ethic strife between the Sunnis and Shiites.
