October 31, 2006
Many of those advocating withdrawal have been "war-weary" ever since the midafternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, when it was discovered that the source of jihadist violence was U.S. foreign policy—a mentality now reinforced by the recent National Intelligence Estimate circulated by our emasculated, demoralized, and incompetent intelligence services. To this way of thinking, victory is impossible by definition, because any response other than restraint is bound to inflame the militancy of the other side. Since the jihadists, by every available account, are also inflamed and encouraged by everything from passivity to Danish cartoons, this seems to shrink the arena of possible or even thinkable combat. (Nobody ever asks what would happen if the jihadists had to start worrying about the level of casualties they were enduring, or the credit they were losing by their tactics, or the number of enemies they were making among civilized people who were prepared to take up arms to stop them. Our own masochism makes this contingency an unlikely one in any case.)….Sorry Chris but that’s an easy one. Using Mullah Filthy’s term, they will get the old chop, chop, choppity chop.…..What is to become, in the event of a withdrawal, of the many Arab and Kurdish Iraqis who do want to live in a secular and democratic and federal country?
Also see Oliver Kamm.
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October 27, 2006
It’s a kind of, "The Best of our Murderous Rage" type thingy. There are many hostages in the Video. I’ve taken frames from the first half of the video showing four of the hostages and their fate. I located a rough translation of the Arabic for all the hostages in the video.
Note they claim one of the drivers for Chalabi died of his injuries. Well no, the guy was murdered. See the similarity. Murdered vs Just Died. You don’t? He died of his injuries, specifically the one caused when they released the attachment of his head to his body. See how this works? Remember lying to kufar and apostates is allowed in Islam. Just like lying to your dog.
BBC: Now he asked you to imagine this and you said if you kill us you won't get anything out of this. But I think quite soon after that you had experience of their capability of killing with the beheading of the guard of Chalabi. Tell us about that.The tape is hosted by two terrorists in black masks. I have a copy of the first half or so below the fold along with some frame grabs. Remember this is the same group that produced the sniper videos that CNN ran. They are murdering terrorists and nothing more. They deserve no mercy or respect from us.Yes. The week after they brought some one guy, they told us he you he was the bodyguard of Chalabi his convoy has been attacked on his way to...to Najaf, we killed a few people around him but he was injured etcetera and so immediately we knew that they would kill him because bodyguard of Chalabi...
And the guy was he was he wasn't able to talk to us, he was not allowed to talk to us and we are not allowed to talk to him, they were treating him said you are a dog, you are a you are working with Chalabi bad guy, Chalabi sold to the Americans etcetera.
He was tall with short hair, well dressed, but his face was livid and...and then they claim that they attack the convoy but Chalabi denied that, they told us okay we will show Chalabi that it's...so they made a cassette of this guy and they broadcast the cassette on...and Chalabi had said no it's not my it's not my bodyguard...the guy was killed after.
Note that so far as I can tell every hostage murdered in this video was Muslim. Every single one.
We aquire our videos be sneaking them off of terrorist message boards. No negotiation required. We bring you these so you can see for yourselves the evil that the MSM calls "freedom fighters". This is the video created for Iraqi audiences.
Hat Tip: MP.
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October 26, 2006
Ralph Peters at the NY Post: For now, Maliki and his pals are using our troops to buy time while they pocket our money, amass power and build up arms. But they've written us off for the long term.Exactly correct, but I didn’t know Improbulus Maximus worked at the NY Post. It is Improbable to the max that we will. Because we didn’t the first time, when we should have.Does that mean we should leave?
Not yet. Iraq deserves one last chance. But to make that chance even remotely viable, we'll have to take desperate measures. We need to fight. And accept the consequences.
The first thing we need to do is to kill Muqtada al-Sadr, who's now a greater threat to our strategic goals than Osama bin Laden.
We should've killed him in 2003, when he first embarked upon his murder campaign. But our leaders were afraid of provoking riots.
Back then, the tumult might've lasted a week. Now we'll face a serious uprising. So be it. When you put off paying war's price, you pay compound interest in blood.
We must kill - not capture - Muqtada, then kill every gunman who comes out in the streets to avenge him.
Also see: Bill Roggio at The Fourth Rail.
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October 25, 2006
Most rear-echelon reporters seem to have studied the same handbook, perhaps The Dummies’ Guide to Faux Bravado. It usually begins with the horrific entry into Baghdad International Airport. Time’s Baghdad bureau chief, Aparisim Ghosh, in an August 2006 cover story, devotes five long paragraphs to the alleged horror of landing there.
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October 17, 2006
The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video of the Salaafi-jihadi umbrella group The Mujahidin Shura Council murdering an Iraqi. They drop the pretense of any "trial" or questioning. This is pure cold blooded murder. First, the camera follows the two killers as they arrive. The one in the black shirt points to a man. Other men scatter, and as soon as he is alone, the murderer lowers his pointing hand and raises his weapon.
The man tries to cover and protect himself but is shot. He falls to the ground screaming with his back to the killers. The murderer then steps up and fires three shots to the head and walks away adjusting his mask.
I have some frame grabs and I'm trying to upload the video on Google video. It may not last long there as it skirts the edges of Googles' policy.
The media committee presents: Assassinating one of the spies worked for the crusaders in MoselThese murderers must be found and stopped! This is the murder of an unarmed Iraqi civilian. No trial, no testimony, just pure murder. These men claim to be acting for Allah. It is claimed by many that it is against Islam to murder in cold blood with no trial. Apparently these men have not gotten the memo on that one.In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful
O' Allah, straighten up our aim and make us stand firm.
All praise and gratitude be to Allah.
The Video is too large to email. But I can send links by request. You do not have to be anyone special to get it. I do ask that if you are underage you do not request or view the video.
Update: Rusty and I both noticed that this man appears very similar to the man who murdered Russia's Diplomats. He dresses the same and has a simliar manner. This murder occured in Mosul so if I were Russian intelligence I'd try Mosul.
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October 14, 2006
So, is leaving the answer? Or is there something else we should be doing?
Possibly both?
I think we have to leave for two reasons. One is that we ultimately have to draw-down until we disappear, so that the credit and legitimacy associated with victory over the Islamofascist insurgency in Iraq accrues to the new government. They need it, just as all newly formed governments need legitimacy. The other reason is that we now have other materializing challenges.
Note: I'm assuming that far from the MSM's conclusion that we're losing and that Iraq is a quagmire, we've essentially won. Barring some miracle the Sunni version of Islamofascism will be ejected, eventually. They're at a strategic disadvantage, and judging from their own communiques they know it.
But that leaves us with a dilemma.
Since I'm a bicycle enthusiast I've chosen to illustrate the dilemma as analogous to Lance Armstrong's choice of whether, and how, to allow Marco Pantani the win on the Mont Ventoux stage of the Tour de France in 2002. Armstrong's "big idea" was that by making a magnanimous gesture he'd create a strategic ally in his overall effort to win the Tour. But it didn't work out that way. The problem was that he didn't pull up soon enough, so Pantani (and more importantly Pantani's fans) knew that the victory had been gifted. Had Armstrong been more clever he'd have made the arrangement far less obvious, and still have won Pantani as an ally.
So, borrowing from this analogy we need to leave early enough that any final victories won't be attributed to the US. That's the bitter pill we must swallow in service of a larger goal.
I think the best way for us to accomplish this tricky transition, without sacrificing our own reputation and appearing weak (which would help Islamofascist recruitment like nothing else), is to simply move on to another military mission, or at least clear the decks so that we can be ready should we need to act. We can rightly say that we didn't leave because we were defeated, but because we had pressing concerns somewhere else. The draw-down probably should be gradual, but still faster than would have seemed prudent a few months ago. Maybe the Baker Commission will give us some cover?
And where should the next engagement be? The tulip or the star?
Tear it up.
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October 13, 2006
I suspect they play circle jerk just after they dip their hands in the er uh liquid, but the video thankfully ends before the foreplay is over. I have the press release below and am seeking a translated transcript.
In the video the terrorists hope they stand firm, further confirmation of the bad gay activities that most likely follows the end of the tape. Add to that the fact that there is no goat in the in the video. Yup.
This seems to be a reaction to the recent reporting that over thirty Sunni leaders have committed to fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Looks like al-Qaeda could only round up five.
Update: Pixi is doing some things so at the moment I can't post a pallete cleanser for you here. But I did put one here.
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Update Garduneh Mehr knows a bit of Arabic and has a partial XLT of the tape. Thanks to Garduneh and my apologies for being so slow to move it up. See his approximate XLT below the fold.
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OXFORD (Reuters) - One of Britain's most experienced journalists was unlawfully killed by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, a British inquest into his death ruled on Friday, prompting calls for the perpetrators to be tried for war crimes.British assistant deputy coroner (Reuters names him "coroner", perhaps to exaggerate his standing and thus the authority of his words) Andrew Walker was unusually vocal in his condemnation of American soldiers and Marines after his inquest into the death of British journalist Terry Lloyd in March, 2003.
"He was fired on by American soldiers as a minibus carried wounded people away."But wait, this journalist was wandering around an active war zone during a massive invasion, and the Reuters account notes that he was not embedded with Coalition forces, as were virtually all other journalists covering the invasion at the time."I have no doubt it was an unlawful act of fire on the minibus."
"It was a despicable, deliberate, vengeful act."
The assistant deputy coroner also fancies himself an expert in military tactics.
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October 09, 2006
From Reuters:
At least seven policemen died and hundreds of others fell ill after suffering food poisoning on Sunday evening in the town of Numaniya, south of Baghdad, police sources at the base said on Monday.Aljazeera.net reports that "policemen began bleeding from the ears and nose after the meal." The policemen are attached to the 4th Division, National Police, nicknamed the "Karrar" division, after a title of Imam Ali, the 4th Muslim caliph.It was not clear if the poisoning at an Iraqi military base was deliberate but police sources said they arrested four cooks on Monday suspected of tampering with the food.
But the spokesman for the commander of the Iraqi armed forces said no one had died.
"Three hundred and fifty to 400 people were poisoned, they were given medical treatment instantly and four were taken to a nearby hospital and everyone has returned to normal," spokesman Brigadier Qasim al-Musawi told a news conference.
The food and water have been sampled for testing. Almost all the victims are Shi'ite Muslims from southern Iraq. They blame a Sunni contractor providing food for the base. Wasit Province Governor Hamad al-Latif stated that the food and water are provided by an unnamed Australian contractor working through Iraqi subcontractors.
The investigation continues.
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October 06, 2006
We're not losing momentum in Iraq. The Pentagon strategy is a very deliberate form of tough love that is forcing the Iraqis to defend their own country.Arabs are culturally the most passive, fence-sitting people on the planet. By their own admission they follow the strongest leader out there. If we had sent 500,000 troops to Iraq and fought a Soviet-style counterinsurgency, the end result would have been an Iraq with no incentive to do the very hard work of creating viable fighting forces from scratch. We would've been their new masters in perpetuity.
We also can't attack Iran and Syria right now because the Iranians would then activate their Iraqi militias and send a million Basij into Iraq. Syria would do a Saddam and start firing WMD-tipped missiles at Israel. The entire region could go up in flames.
Don't let the media convince you that things are going badly in Iraq. The Anbar tribes are now fighting al Qaeda on their own initiative, and the Shi'ite-dominated government is slowly dismantling al Sadr's Mahdi Army. "Experts" predicted that neither of these things would ever happen because of secular loyalties, but they are happening, and only because we're forcing the Iraqis to stand up and fight for their country.
Finally, take a look at what happened when the French, Soviets, and Russians fought Muslim insurgencies with the kind of aggressive, "proactive" approach so many Americans claim to want.
The French lost 18,000 in Algeria, a KIA rate three and a half times ours. The Soviets lost 14,000 in Afghanistan, a KIA rate twice ours. The Russians officially lost 5500 in the First Chechen War of 1994-96, but Soldiers' Mothers of Russia puts the actual number at 14,000, a KIA rate ten times ours. Nobody knows how many Russian troops have died in the Second Chechen War, but Soldiers' Mothers of Russia had the number at 11,000 by 2003.
Our strategy in Iraq is sound. It's keeping our own casualties down, and it's forcing the Iraqis to defend themselves.
Don't despair. We're winning.
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October 05, 2006
Is treason even a crime in this country anymore?
Anyhoo, straight from lala-land:
WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a member of
Saddam Hussein's defense team, predicted on Thursday that a bloodbath would follow should an Iraqi court trying the former president have him executed.At a news conference, Clark said he feared that should Saddam and the others be hanged, "catastrophic violence" would follow that would lead to "the end of civilization as we know it in the birthplace of civilization, Mesopotamia. Total, unmitigated chaos."
Interesting. I guess Ramsey isn't getting the news from here over there. According to the news here about over there, it's already total, unmitigated chaos.
Someone from the MSM is going to read this and go "Oops!"
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But hey, no one is perfect.
Rusty took time out from putting Korans in the toilet at Pace University to send along this:
Chuck freakin Norris, eat your freakin heart out. An e-mail from a
Marine posted at another forum I frequent. (Forum name redacted - Vin)"Best Chuck Norris Moment - 13 May. Bad Guys arrived at the government
center in the small town of Kubaysah to kidnap the town mayor, since
they have a problem with any form of government that does not include
regular beheadings and women wearing burqahs. There were seven of
them. As they brought the mayor out to put him in a pick-up truck to
take him off to be beheaded (on video, as usual), one of the bad Guys
put down his machinegun so that he could tie the mayor's hands. The
mayor took the opportunity to pick up the machinegun and drill five of
the Bad Guys. The other two ran away. One of the dead Bad Guys was on
our top twenty wanted list. Like they say, you can't fight City Hall."
I agree, that's a kickass story. But I don't understand Rusty's addiction to Chuck Norris. Everyone knows that Jack Bauer would eat Norris for lunch. With leftovers the next day, even.
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October 04, 2006
The Mujahideen Brigades in western Iraq have released a disgusting video of the capture and murder of a Nepalese man. In the first video they take a statement from their victim. In the second they shoot him. It’s not well done and the poor man suffers before he finally falls. They continue to shoot him while shouting Allahu Akbar (God is Great). They call to Allah as they murder this man. Here is the statement they released with the videos.
he name of God the MercifulBeen praising God one of the members of the families of security protection companies affiliated to the crusader forces in the western Anbar gas
Allahu Akbar ... Allahu Akbar ... Allahu Akbar ...
Glory be to God, His Prophet and the believers
Media Bureau
Mujahideen Brigades, the western region
Source
Wall Islamic network
Disowns Baghdad
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September 27, 2006
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sunni tribal leaders who have vowed to drive al Qaeda out of Iraq's most restive province met the Shi'ite premier on Wednesday, marking what Washington hopes will be a breakthrough alliance against Islamist militants.Expect Democratic party leaders to begin condemning the sheiks as soon as they become aware of the story.Sattar al-Buzayi, a Sunni sheikh from Anbar province who has emerged in recent weeks as a leader of a tribal alliance against Osama bin Laden's followers, said he and about 15 other sheikhs had offered their cooperation to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
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September 23, 2006
A new video released by the Mujahidin Shura Council of Iraq shows new footage of the desecration of the bodies of Thomas Tucker and Kristian Menchaca. The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video. Graphic Images and link to video below.A previous video had been released of the mutilation of Tucker and Menchaca's bodies by al Qaeda in Iraq. This one includes new footage and has a high production value. The video shows the bodies being dragged through the streets, beaten, and kicked.
The video is a propaganda piece which tries to link the killings of the two American soldiers in Iraq to the murder of a 14 year old Iraqi girl and her family. The video calls the desecration of Tucker and Menchaca's bodies retaliation for alleged abuses by U.S. soldiers.
Most of those abuses have been thoroughly debunked--such as in Fallujah, cited in the video-- or are cases in which the U.S. has prosecuted the abusers.
The video shows the burning of bodies in Afghanistan by U.S. soldiers. What the video does not say is that the bodies were being burned for sanitary reasons. To stop the spread of disease.
Near the end of the video, the two U.S. soldiers' bodies are burned.
The claim that Tucker and Menchaca were killed and desecrated in retaliation for the rape and murder of Abeer Qassim al-Janabi and her family is also not true. The allegations of the murder were not made until after the two were killed.
It is ironic that the video also shows images of Pfc. Justin Watt, who is the chief witness against at least 5 members of his platoon being prosecuted for crimes revolving around the incident.
The terrorists in Iraq celebrate the desecration of the bodies of soldiers, while we prosecute those involved in the very incident they claim to be retaliating for.
Reciprocation, or tit-for-tat attacks, is emphasized throughout the video. An al-Jazeera interview with Mohammed Taha al-Janabi, Abeer’s uncle, begins the illustration of American crimes, followed by narration of an inhabitant of al-Fallujah describing American crimes during the second battle in that city. Also, the Mujahideen Shura Council points to the burning of Taliban Mujahideen in Afghanistan as additional justification for their acts against the two American soldiers in al-Yusufiyah. Stories of Muhammad’s companions and Islamic scholars who acted in kind to crimes committed against them are presented as vertically scrolling text atop an image of one of the American soldiers.The two victims, Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Tucker, were members of the 101st Airborne division. Al Qaeda claims to have abducted them, but video evidence suggests that the two were already dead. For instance, one of the al Qaeda terrorists can be seen removing what appears to be a knife or possibly a grenade from one of the victim's belts.A message within the video reads: “The Mujahideen, Allah willing, will stay on the companion’s path, “tit for tat†in being harsh on the apostates and the Crusader infidels and the splitters by dispersing and hurting them, destroying their troops, killing them, and wishing to offer the biggest sacrifices for the God of earth and the skiesâ€.
A third soldier died in the attack.
Their bodies were later recovered not far from where they had been kidnapped. The US military now says that their corpses were found tied together with a bomb between them. Three roadside bombs were planted around the bodies. The bodies had been decapitated.
This video shows the true face of the enemies we fight. However you feel about the war in Iraq, this should enrage you. They are ruthless barbarians who boast about killing those they have taken hostage.
We show you these images so that you will understand what it is we are up against. The video and images should enrage you. If you do not have righteouss anger after seeing this, you are beyond hope.
And if you cannot see the difference between a terrorist organization that celebrates the murder and desecration of civilians (see our hostage or our beheading archives for many examples) and the U.S. military who treats as crimes and prosecutes those accused of similar things, then you are a moral idiot.
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From Aljazeera.net:
Iraqi state television has reported that the leader of Ansar al-Sunna, a group with links to al-Qaeda in Iraq, has been captured along with two of his aides.It's not clear who his captors were but it's logical to assume he'll spend some time in an Iraqi prison. More pricelessness.Muntasir al-Jibouri was arrested in the town of Muqdadiya, about 80km northeast of Baghdad, in the troubled province of Diyala, the report said.
And, because of Ramadan, Jibouri will have to spend his days fasting, getting cranky from not eating, and having nothing to blow up.
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September 14, 2006
Ansar al Islam was a Salafi Kurdish jihad organization. While it had no love for the Hussein regime, it's main target were the secularist who have dominated Kurdish Iraq for years.
Many leading Ansar al Islam operatives were known to have received training at al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. They were also heavily funded by bin Laden's network. Among them is a name you might recognize. A name we at the Jawa Report were following long before the world was aware of him: Abu Musab al Zarqawi.
After the liberation of Kurdistan from Saddam, the two main secular parties and their Peshmerga fighters effectively stamped out Ansar al Islam. Abu Musab al Zarqawi fled Kurdistan with a band of Arabs and founded a new terror organization called al Tawhid wal Jihad---where he first began beheading infidels. The Kurds who fled formed a group called The Army of Ansar al Sunnah--the same group which just posted a gruesome video of three Iraqi National Guardsman being beheaded.
Later, he renamed the group al Qaeda in Iraq and pledged loyalty to Osama bin Laden.
But before he and the other Ansar al Islam terrorists officially pledged loyalty to bin Laden, they had been trained by al Qaeda and shared exactly the same goals. There is no mystery here that the groups were allied.
In a speech in which he challenged the belief of war critics that Iraqis' lives are now worse than under Saddam Hussein, Barham Salih said, "The alliance between the Baathists and jihadists which sustains Al Qaeda in Iraq is not new, contrary to what you may have been told." He went on to say, "I know this at first hand. Some of my friends were murdered by jihadists, by Al Qaeda-affiliated operatives who had been sheltered and assisted by Saddam's regime."To think of al Qaeda as a structured organization in which one is either "in" the group or "out" of the group is to not quite understand the global jihadi network. Ansar al Islam had the same goals and same methods as al Qaeda. Whether or not they 'took orders' from bin Laden seems a rather weak point indeed.A Kurdish politician who took his high school exams from inside a Baathist prison, Mr. Salih said he was the target of the alliance between jihadists, Baathists, and Al Qaeda in 2001, when a group known as Ansar al-Islam tried to assassinate him. In 2002, envoys of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two Kurdish parties sharing sovereignty over northern Iraq between the two Iraq wars, presented the CIA with evidence that the organization that tried to kill Mr. Salih had been in part funded and directed by Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard....
he added, "There were links between Ansar al-Islam and Al Qaeda. The information at time [in 2002] was quite different. Now, we could not prove this in a court of law, but this is intelligence."... The DIA concludes that Ansar al-Islam "receives assistance" from Al Qaeda but is not a branch of the terrorist organization.
There is no doubt that Ansar al Islam was a dangerous terrorist group; among its activities was the production of ricin to be used in terrorist acts in Europe. The left's conventional defense of Ansar al Islam is that it was located in the northern part of Iraq, and therefore under the presumed dominion of the Kurds. But so what? They were in Iraq, and Saddam not only tolerated but supported them. The Kurds had no ability to drive them out. The idea that Saddam is insulated from al Qaeda because Ansar was only supported by al Qaeda, but was not a "branch" of al Qaeda, is the kind of silliness liberals engage in on this issue. Ansar was a terrorist Islamic group, and Saddam both harbored and supported them.If you still don't believe Saddam supported terrorists, well then you are just ignorant. If, however, the larger point is that Saddam had no connection to 9/11, then your point is well taken.Likewise with the claim that Saddam had no idea that Zarqawi was inside Iraq for over a year before the Iraq war began, conducting terrorist operations from Iraqi soil. I think that claim is highly unlikely, and that Saddam, at a minimum, tolerated Zarqawi and the other al Qaeda refugees from Afghanistan because of their shared goals. But again, what is the point? Zarqawi organized and carried out, from Iraq, the assassination of American diplomat Laurence Foley, in Jordan, in December 2002. So again, there is no question Saddam's government harbored terrorists who carried out terrorist acts against the United States from Iraqi soil.
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From WaPo:
He [Mowaffak al-Rubaie] named the man as Hamed Juma Faris al-Suaidi, also known as Abu Humam or Abu Rana, and said he was the deputy to Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who took over the Sunni Islamist insurgent group after U.S. troops killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in June.With the media continually glorifying the sectarian violence in Iraq, it's understandable that the public isn't being informed about the regular stomping of al Qaeda leadership. I consider it a success story that should be emphasized while, at the same time, the efforts of U.S. and Iraqi forces should be trumpeted."He was hiding in a building used by families, he wanted to use children and women as human shields as our forces attempted to capture him," he told a news conference.
Another point worthy of emphasis is that the terrorist thug, Abu Humam, was hiding with the women and children. Maybe if the mainstream media started accurately reporting on the tactics of the gutless terrorist scum, who intentionally put their own innocents in danger, then possibly the public would start scoffing at them being portrayed as freedom fighters.
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August 30, 2006
Sergeant Frank Wuterich, one of the Marines that US Representative John Murtha judged and convicted of killing civilians "...in cold blood..." was recommended for a decoration based on what Lt. William T. Kallop, the only officer present during the battle in Haditha, described as his heroism in leading the counterattack. more...
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August 06, 2006
From UPI.com:
Shiite militias in Iraq are now brutally killing gays and children forced into same-sex prostitution, a report says Sunday.So, in Iraq there's legal protection for those people who murder homosexuals. Gay and lesbian advocates in the U.S., to my knowledge, have expressed no outrage. Instead, they condemn America for the lack of same-sex marriage.The killings are ignored under Iraqi law because homosexuality is seen as a horrific act against Islam, London's Observer newspaper reports, and those doing the killing face no consequences.
Section 111 of Iraq's penal code lays out legal protections for murder when the targeted people are deemed to be acting against Islam. Homosexuality is viewed by some as so immoral that killing someone who is gay qualifies as an "honor killing," the newspaper says.
On balance, it sure seems that the gay and lesbian activists should support Bush's efforts to foster democracy in the Middle East. Without democratic institutions, it's virtually impossible to wrestle popular support from the Islamists to achieve human rights reforms. Unfortunately, gays and lesbians are some of the most virulent of President Bush's opponents.
Therefore, I contend that homosexual advocates in America are not acting in their own best interest. Instead of focusing on same-sex marriage, they should be working to create assurances that they won't be murdered. And, for those Bush-haters among us, please realize that the honor killings will continue long after the President leaves office.
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August 01, 2006
BAGHDAD – Coalition forces captured five terrorists during simultaneous raids in southwest Baghdad July 31.The final paragraph of this release is of particular interest:
Security forces targeted associates of a terrorist leader who is reported to be linked with attacks against Iraqi civilians, security forces and Coalition troops. This individual is reported to have significant links to several high level al–Qaida in Iraq leaders. Credible intelligence has indicated that he had been attempting to obtain rockets for a future attack.
These raids are another example of how Iraqi and Coalition forces continue deliberate and methodical operations in order to hunt down and capture or kill all terrorists threatening the security and stability of Iraq. These operations will continue to be successful with the support and cooperation of the Iraqi people.Coalition efforts are "deliberate and methodical", aimed at the continued degradation of terrorist command and control capabilities, while al Qaeda efforts are designed as spectaculars to attract the attention of journalists, the way monkeys can be distracted with shiny objects. more...
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July 31, 2006
Ms. Rahman is currently in the United States meeting with the family and friends of soldiers who have fallen in Iraq to thank them for their loved one's sacrifice for Iraq. She is also promoting the KDC's website called The Other Iraq, which is dedicated to showing the positive things that are going on in Iraq (especially the Kurdish region in Northern Iraq). The website is featuring some commercials with Iraqis thanking America for liberating Iraq. I suggest you check them out.
I sorta like them Kurds, myself.
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July 26, 2006
The war on terror is a real war against those who wish to burn out the flame of freedom. And we are in this vanguard for defending the values of humanity.I dunno sounds like he is condemning terrorism to me. more...I know that some of you here question whether Iraq is part of the war on terror. Let me be very clear: This is a battle between true Islam, for which a person's liberty and rights constitute essential cornerstones, and terrorism, which wraps itself in a fake Islamic cloak; in reality, waging a war on Islam and Muslims and values.
And spreads hatred between humanity, contrary to what come in our Koran, which says, "We have created you of male and female and made you tribes and families that you know each other." Surely (inaudible) of you in the sight of God is the best concept.
The truth is that terrorism has no religion. Our faith says that who kills an innocent, as if they have killed all mankind.
Thousands of lives were tragically lost on September 11th when these impostors of Islam reared their ugly head. Thousands more continue to die in Iraq today at the hands of the same terrorists who show complete disregard for human life.
Your loss on that day was the loss of all mankind, and our loss today is lost for all free people.
And wherever humankind suffers a loss at the hands of terrorists, it is a loss of all of humanity.
It is your duty and our duty to defeat this terror. Iraq is the front line in this struggle, and history will prove that the sacrifices of Iraqis for freedom will not be in vain. Iraqis are your allies in the war on terror.
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July 23, 2006
I mean, if it's some nameless terrorist in Gitmo that starves himself to Paradise, big deal. Screw the feeding tube.
But Saddam is a whole 'nuther animal. Gas chamber would be good. Firing squad without a blindfold wouldn't be bad either.
stein hoist: George Ramos
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