al-Qaeda Members Turning on Their Leaders

There's job dissension within the ranks of al-Qaeda in Iraq:

Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person’s face with piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of al-Qaeda in Iraq are daring to become informants for the US military in a hostile Baghdad neighbourhood.

The ground-breaking move in Doura is part of a wider trend that has started in other al-Qaeda hotspots across the country and in which Sunni insurgent groups and tribal sheikhs have stood together with the coalition against the extremist movement.

“They are turning. We are talking to people who we believe have worked for al-Qaeda in Iraq and want to reconcile and have peace,” said Colonel Ricky Gibbs, commander of the 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, which oversees the area.

I guess they don't have an al-Qaeda version of the "One Minute Manager". The lower level folks are not usually as dedicated as the senior guys and are more easily disheartened, and I'm sure our forces are making their betrayals worthwhile. This has the potential to spread quite quickly as former bad guys realize there are advantages to cooperating with the good guys.