A wedding. A booby-trapped ambulance. This is not the act of a group interested in protecting the "innocent." This is the act of a group that doesn't believe that anyone involved is innocent, and has allowed its ideology to blind it to the most basic canons of human decency. A report from the infamous Al-Jazeera, which apparently doesn't see any need to cover up any of the details of this one. Will no one in the Islamic world be disturbed? (Thanks to Nicolei for the link.)
"A booby-trapped ambulance driven by a human bomber blew up in a place where a wedding party was taking place," the police said....The blast struck while Shia worshippers were celebrating one of Islam's most important holidays, the Eid al- Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice....
Senior Shia political leader Abdel Aziz Hakim - whose list is expected to dominate the elections - said the attack was the latest salvo by extremists trying to stoke civil war between Shia and Sunnis.
"It is quite obvious why there is such an attack. They are trying to create sectarian strife," Hakim told AFP.
An audiotape released Thursday and purportedly recorded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's supremo in Iraq, took aim at the Shia community, accusing it of participating in the deadly November assault on Fallujah.
"The battle of Falluja removed the ugly mask of the damned
'Rafidha' (a derogatory term for Shia), whose hatred (for Sunnis) was manifested in this battle," the audiotape said."They participated in the military campaign for the battle against Fallujah with the blessing of the imam of infidelity and apostasy, Sistani," it added.
During the 9/11 attack on the WTC towers it
was also the plan to have the second plane
to also kill the rescue workers that arrived after the first plane hit.
Muslims in America that claim to be against violence and practise the peaceful style of Islam from the Quran better start doing more than spewing the usual public verbal condemnation
that never show anger for the Muslims doing the terrorism.
Anyone can claim they are against violence
towards females but when they see a woman being assaulted do they try to stop it or just walk by and declare to people that they don't approve such beatings.
With Thanks to Gary!!
http://www.tothepointnews.com/index.php
SARKO VS. EURABIA
TTP Intelligence Bulletin - Dr. Jack Wheeler
Thursday, January 20, 2005
My wife just returned from a business trip to Paris last night. She hadn’t been there in a while and was shocked at its transformation. “Where are all the French?” she asked. “Every other person I saw was Arab or North African.” Now she understands how Europe is becoming Eurabia.
Yet standing in the way blocking France’s march to cultural doom is a short, wiry fellow with a distinctly un-French name. He’s the most popular politician in France, rock-star popular, married to a beautiful, glamorous model, and the odds-on favorite to be the next President of France. He’s Nicolas Sarkozy – the beloved “Sarko,” as everyone calls him, and he’s part Jewish.
WHERE ARE ALL THE FRENCH???
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom, Sight, and Courage to stay the course to Destroy ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat give the World Courage to Stand and Fight this Evil Amen
PS
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7397802
Iraq to Arrest Ahmad Chalabi After Eid -TV
Fri Jan 21, 2005 04:18 PM ET
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq's interim defense minister said on Friday the government would arrest Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi after the Eid al-Adha holiday on suspicion of maligning the defense ministry.
"We will arrest him and hand him over to Interpol. We will arrest him based on facts that he wanted to malign the reputation of the defense ministry and defense minister," Hazim al-Shaalan told Al Jazeera television.
The satellite channel quoted Shaalan as saying Chalabi would be handed to Interpol over his conviction in absentia by a Jordanian court in 1992 of embezzling millions from Petra Bank, whose 1989 collapse shook Jordan's political and financial system.
Chalabi, who founded and ran the bank during a long period when he lived in the country, denies any wrongdoing.
"Our measures will start after Eid," Shalaan said. The Muslim feast began on Jan. 20 and ends on Sunday in most Arab states.
Shaalan told London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat in remarks published on Friday he would order the arrest after Chalabi accused the defense minister in an interview of stealing $500 million from the ministry and posted documents on a Web site accusing Shaalan of links to Saddam Hussein's government.
Chalabi, a Shi'ite Muslim politician who is a contender to become Iraq's prime minister after Jan. 30 elections, was not immediately available for comment.
A U.S.-appointed judge issued a warrant for Chalabi's arrest last year on charges of counterfeiting money, but the charges were dropped in September.
Chalabi had brought together foes of Saddam, the former Iraqi president, under the umbrella of his Iraqi National Congress and spearheaded attempts by the U.S.-appointed Governing Council to remove members of Saddam's Baath party from positions of power.
All I can say is good luck to Sarkozy, and may he block their movements - ahem, if you know what I mean... I visit France fairly often and people seem too to have a lot of time for his stance with regard to Islam. So, to use an encouraging English football (that's "soccer" to Americans) chant - Sarko, Sarko, Sarko-oh! Keep up the fight (and can you please make it alittle bit tougher?).
All I can say is good luck to Sarkozy, and may he block their movements - ahem, if you know what I mean... I visit France fairly often and people seem too to have a lot of time for his stance with regard to Islam. So, to use an encouraging English football (that's "soccer" to Americans) chant - Sarko, Sarko, Sarko-oh! Keep up the fight (and can you please make it just a little bit tougher?).
These people dont even like each other let alone try to get along in the rest of the world.
Look at how a group of Retired military personel view this war:
For almost two years, a small seminar has been meeting at my house to work on the question of how to fight Fourth Generation war. It is made up mostly of Marines, lieutenant through lieutenant colonel, with one Army officer, one National Guard tanker captain and one foreign officer. We figured somebody ought to be working on the most difficult question facing the U.S. armed forces, and nobody else seems to be.
The seminar recently decided it was time to go public with a few of the ideas it has come up with, and use this column to that end. We have no magic solutions to offer, only some thoughts. We recognized from the outset that the whole task may be hopeless; state militaries may not be able to come to grips with Fourth Generation enemies no matter what they do.
But for what they are worth, here are our thoughts to date:
- If America had some Third Generation ground forces, capable of maneuver warfare, we might be able to fight battles of encirclement. The inability to fight battles of encirclement is what led to the failure of Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, where al Qaeda stood, fought us, and got away with few casualties. To fight such battles we need some true light infantry, infantry that can move farther and faster on its feet than the enemy, has a full tactical repertoire (not just bumping into the enemy and calling for fire) and can fight with its own weapons instead of depending on supporting arms. We estimate that U.S. Marine infantry today has a sustained march rate of only 10-15 kilometers per day; German World War II line, not light, infantry could sustain 40 kilometers.
- Fourth Generation opponents will not sign up to the Geneva Conventions, but might some be open to a chivalric code governing how our war with them would be fought? It's worth exploring.
- How U.S. forces conduct themselves after the battle may be as important in 4GW as how they fight the battle.
- What the Marine Corps calls "cultural intelligence" is of vital importance in 4GW, and it must go down to the lowest rank. In Iraq, the Marines seemed to grasp this much better than the U.S. Army.
- What kind of people do we need in Special Operations Forces? The seminar thought minds were more important than muscles, but it is not clear all U.S. SOF understand this.
- One key to success is integrating our troops as much as possible with the local people.
- Unfortunately, the American doctrine of "force protection" works against integration and generally hurts us badly. Here's a quote from the minutes of the seminar:
There are two ways to deal with the issue of force protection. One way is the way we are currently doing it, which is to separate ourselves from the population and to intimidate them with our firepower. A more viable alternative might be to take the opposite approach and integrate with the community. That way you find out more of what is going on and the population protects you. The British approach of getting the helmets off as soon as possible may actually be saving lives.
- What "wins" at the tactical and physical levels may lose at the operational, strategic, mental and moral levels, where 4GW is decided. Martin van Creveld argues that one reason the British have not lost in Northern Ireland is that the British Army has taken more casualties than it has inflicted. This is something the Second Generation American military has great trouble grasping, because it defines success in terms of comparative attrition rates.
- We must recognize that in 4GW situations, we are the weaker, not the stronger party, despite all our firepower and technology.
- What can the U.S. military learn from cops? Our reserve and National Guard units include lots of cops; are we taking advantage of what they know?
I will continue this report in my next column.
William S. Lind's On War column appears weekly in CounterPunch.
Lind's prescriptions in, bien entendu, Counterpunch, are idiotic. The notion that the American soldiers in Fallujah or Mosul or Baghdad should take "off their helmets" just like the British, in the much more benign atmosphere of Basra, is crazy. American soldiers should not have to increase the risk to themselves because Lind and some of his fellows believe, apparently, that "hearts and minds" can be won.
Quoting the historian Martin Creveld on how the British have succeeded in Northern Ireland because they have taken "more casualties" than the locals is astounding -- is that what Lind and his fellows want? To have the Americans take "more casualties" in order to win what, exactly? Northern Ireland is not Iraq. Guess why? One is Muslim, and the other is not. And that is the whole thing. In one palce, Iraq, it hardly matters how much, in the end, we pass out billions, or how we mingle with the locals to show we do not fear them, and we love them, and they, pretty please, should like us back. They can't and they won't.
They are inculcated, from childhood on, in madrasas and mosques, in the book, virtually the only book, that matters -- the Qur'an -- "not to ake Christians and Jews for their friends." Look. Here's what Lind and everyone else who presumes to preach about what is essentially the "winning of hearts and minds" has to do: read the Qur'an, the Hadith, the Sira. Then g online, with a search ability, and type in such words as "Unbeliever" or "Infidel" at one of sites that has the Qur'an and Hadith on-line (say, www.usc.edu). Look at what Muslims learn. Look at what they hear in the khutbas. This isn't made up by some Washington madmen, "fundamentalist" Christians, Zionists, and all the usual suspects that the likes of -- oh, Brent Scowcroft, say, hint at. This is what Islam is all about. Read about the Muslim conquest of India. Look at what happens to Hindus in Bangladesh today, to Buddhists in southern Thailand, to Chrtistians in Indonesia.
This isn't about America. This war, world-wide and endless, which was in prompted not by any acts by the Infidels, but by the wherewithal that the OPEC oil money provided in making the Jihad possible (at the very moment when, in the Lands of the Infidels, Muslims were being foolishly allowed in by the authorities who knew only that Islam, they had been told and believed, was "one of the world's great religions."). This is all about Islam, its tenets, its attitudes, its atmospherics.
No winning of Muslm "hearts and minds" is possible. Cooperation is -- by showing an absolute understanding, no sentimentality, no idiotic invocations of the "three abrahamic faiths," none of that. Just show that the mixture as before is over. It's over. No Muslm migration, no weapons, no foreign aid. A relentless campaign to weaken Islam in every possible way. That is how you will get real cooperation. Meanwhile, there should be no large-scale Western presence anywhere in the Muslim world. Air assaults when necessary. But not on the ground. Boycotts, embargoes, all the rest. But not American soldiers having to risk their lives for some cockamamie "Light-Unto-the-Muslim Nations" project.
The harsh formula that the British used to apply to the Muslim Arabs -- "They are at your feet or at your throat" (borrowed, I think, from Bismarck, who applied it otherwise) -- was harsh. It was also true.
It's over. No Muslm migration, no weapons, no foreign aid. A relentless campaign to weaken Islam in every possible way. That is how you will get real cooperation. Meanwhile, there should be no large-scale Western presence anywhere in the Muslim world. Air assaults when necessary. But not on the ground. Boycotts, embargoes, all the rest. But not American soldiers having to risk their lives for some cockamamie "Light-Unto-the-Muslim Nations" project.
Hugh, I agree, this "Light-Unto-the-Muslim Nations" strategy, or justification, or whatever, is "cockamamie." However, it is important to understand that the goal of the American occupation of Iraq is to pacify the region. The attempt to convert the Middle East to democracy is merely one of the means being employed. Another means being employed is military force.
Although we know that the first "means" is doomed to disappointment, the does not mean that the second means will be without good effect.
In other words, just because occupying Muslim territory and killing jihadists in order to establish a constitutional democracy in that Muslim territory, which itself is done in order to pacify that Muslim territory, is silly because constitutional governments have never historically brought peace to this region, this does not mean that occupying Muslim territory and killing jihadists cannot be an effective means to defeat Islam. In fact, war is the only method ever proven to defeat Islam.
Hugh, we've got our boys in Iraq, and they're killing jihadists. Call me an optimist, but I say the glass is half full!
Blasts hit mosque, wedding in Baghdad
Another fine example of Islamic holy war. It must warm the hearts of Islamos everywhere to see how Muslims treat fellow muslims.
But of course I haven’t taken into consideration that it was probably the jews who did this… or the CIA… or Mossad?…. why doesn’t the KGB ever get blamed?…I am pretty sure it wasn't the RCMP or CSIS.
Sarko isn´t perfect but it´s better than Chirac