War Is Deceit Update: "34 killed as Al-Qaeda fighters attack Iraqi villages," from AFP (thanks to DFS):
BAGHDAD : At least 34 people were killed in fierce gun battles as suspected Al-Qaeda fighters - some dressed as Iraqi soldiers - attacked three villages, officials said on Thursday.Gunmen dressed in army uniforms launched an attack on Howr Rajab, a Sunni village south of Baghdad, killing three soldiers and wounding three, a security official said.
They then commandeered a Humvee armoured vehicle and charged into the village where they assaulted the headquarters of the Howr Rajab Awakening Council, a local anti-Qaeda front made up of Sunni Arab men.
Witnesses said fierce clashes ensued when Iraqi troops and Awakening members fought back. At least 10 civilians were killed and four wounded in the clashes.
A doctor at Baghdad's Al-Yarmuk hospital said the facility had received the bodies of 10 civilians from the village.
An interior ministry official confirmed three soldiers had been killed and put the death toll of civilians at 18. [...]
Awakening councils, groups made up mainly of Sunni Arabs who have joined US forces in fighting Al-Qaeda, have sprung up across Iraq and are credited as helping bring about a drastic reduction in violence across the country. [...]
In the past few months, the US military has launched a crackdown in and around Howr Rajab and persuaded several villagers to join the fight against Al-Qaeda.
The attack there came a day after leaflets were distributed in the village warning Sunni Arabs against becoming US allies.
"There will be many battles between us. We will bomb each and every house in the village and chop the heads of people unless they return" to the anti-American insurgency, said one leaflet, put out in the name of Al-Qaeda.
I recall a debate in the 'sixties, that focused on the morality of using the results of Nazi science. My opinion is: scientific pursuit is a means of testing hypotheses, to the end of a research goal. Use of any source of probative data that leads to the end is legitimate. However, the scientist should repudiate the ends of Nazi - or Soviet - science.
In that regard, BNP members are questioning the write-off of the former anti-semitic right, while their data bases are used. Marisol is quoted in the article below.
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I condemn those of the right who socialize with convicted war criminals, while I praise their anti-jihad work. I condemn those who support the expenditure of 1.5 trillion dollars on nation building, when the cards reveal that Islamofascists WILL take the Iraq and Afghan cess pools, and will do so under the cover of advancing "freedom."
Internal Spiritual Struggle Update
Terror strikes UP; blasts hit courts in 3 big cities
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/terror-strikes-up-blasts-hit-courts-in-3-big-cities/52877-3.html
Internal Spiritual Struggle Update
Terror strikes UP; blasts hit courts in 3 big cities
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/terror-strikes-up-blasts-hit-courts-in-3-big-cities/52877-3.html
"credited as helping bring about a drastic reduction in violence across the country"
The "reduction in violence" that Busho-o-philes are trumpeting sounds eerily like the claims that Vietnamization was working. Only this enemy is far more insidious than the VC. Any appparent "reduction" in violence is more likely a time of rearming and restrategizing. And revamping the old "war"drobe - civvies out, police and army uniforms in.
""There will be many battles between us. We will bomb each and every house in the village and chop the heads of people unless they return" to the anti-American insurgency, said one leaflet, put out in the name of Al-Qaeda."
....one way or the other you will die.....this same message is being taught in the Mosques of Western countries....
....Ban Muslim Immigration....
"...dressed as Iraqi soldiers..." ?!
After reading and hearing this phrase for a couple of years, I have come to the conclusion that they weren't dressed as Iraqi soldiers, the were Iraqi soldiers!
Did we miss an opportunity to get these AQ bastards on the pointy end of our spear ?
The will is there, just need better communications.
It's about time that Iraqis are waking up to these bastards. They will give A-Q a sample of that good old fashioned sharia that Western forces are reluctant to display.
The Lose/Lose Logic of Iraq. We will kill you if you refuse to help kill them.
Them(us) will kill you if you do.
And the Winner is...