WHAT HAPPENS when the neighborhood association doesn’t like you:

Former Sunni insurgents asked the U.S. to stay away, then ambushed members of al-Qaida in Iraq, killing 18 in a battle that raged for hours north of Baghdad, an ex-insurgent leader and Iraqi police said Saturday.

More like this, please.

UPDATE: More on this from Donald Sensing: “Not content with losing the logistics war, now al Qaeda is just plain losing the war. . . . Well, when it rains, it pours.”