Al-Qaeda in Iraq has taken control of Fallujah and a handful of other cities in Iraq, reports the Washington Post, “threatening to undo much of what U.S. troops appeared to have accomplished before they withdrew” and “raising the specter of a new civil war.” The DailyBeast’s Eli Lake explains why, however, Fallujah could be Al-Qaeda in Iraq’s Waterloo.

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