BAGHDAD (Reuters) - From the slaughter of children to edicts against suggestively shaped vegetables, al Qaeda's brutality and its imposition of fanatical Islamic laws have been crucial to its decline in Iraq.
Its enforcement of a severe form of Sunni Islam in areas it controlled made everyday life miserable, sapping support among the people for its campaign against U.S. and Iraqi forces.
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