Here’s an interesting bit of news for those still tempted to believe the global jihad is being perpetrated by a tiny minority of poverty-stricken misunderstanders of Islam.

Five Al Qaeda freakazoids were killed today in Iraq’s Al-Anbar province, and among them was a Yemeni prince. (Hat tip: AJStrata.)

Iraqi National – WNA / Baghdad Office/ Anbar rescue Council announced today, Thursday, the killing of five members of the al-Qaeda network of Anbar governorate west of Iraq. The leader of the Council, Sheikh Hamid Farhan said that the local council forces killed five terrorists among them a Yamani nationality prince in the area of Heet in western Iraq. Farhan assured that “Council forces tightened her grip on the West Coast” which is facing continued tension on the part of armed groups that operate in that region. The Council of the province of Anbar is supported by the Iraqi government and American forces in the region