[swilhelm73]

Strategery redux

[JustPiper]

This is so way off mark from what is on the Ongoing Terror thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1013726/posts?page

[Hugin]

Operation Roach Motel seems to be working.

[Principled]

How will Ketchup-Boy spin this?

I'm dying in antici.... pation.

[DainBramage]

al Qaeda's biweekly Internet magazine Sawt al-Jihad, or "Voice of Jihad,"

With links to DU

[doosee]

Do Not Go To Iraq

The Muslim fanatics are confused now. Being told to not go where the infidels are. Bin Laden and his guys are seeing their front line troops slaughtered and the supply is not infinite. First act of surrender.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

When they start accidentally hitting civilians in these locations what will there strategy be then?

[angkor]

This is also the problem that JI is having in Indonesia. They're killed too many Muslims (95 percent at JW Marriott), they don't have any clean Western targets, and they're not wanted.

[GretchenEE]

May all bin Laden's money take wings
and all his cohorts disband in confusion
before the might of the United States
swoops down to evict him
from his caves.

[New Horizon]

...urging al Qaeda supporters to stay out of Baghdad and concentrate on hitting U.S. military targets in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain...

Obviously these dumbasses haven't yet concluded that attacking US Military in any location is a losing proposition.

And that's a good thing.

I'm sure the majority of AQ supporters are disappointed that they're not being urged to murder women and children; their preferred targets.

[jimbo123]

Flypaper stratergy.

[gbaker]

But but but W said to bring it on. And now their quiting? Bin must be worried about Kerry. Yeah thats it.

[Snake65]

Guess we're killing them about as fast, if not faster, than whoever is running the show (I still say he's dead) can send them. As Martha Stewart would say: That's A Good Thing.

[Tricorn]

If it's PR he wants, bin Laden should go back to building roads and hospitals and day care centers and abortion clinics and government cheese distribution centers. Patty Murray will give him all the good PR he wants.

Of course, OBL is dead anyway.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Al Queda doesn't care who they kill, just like the psychotics they are.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

New articles in al Qaeda's biweekly Internet magazine...

How bizarre. So, do they have a birthday and anniversary page too? Crossword puzzle? Classified ads?

[Grampa Dave]

First of all, "He's dead, Jim!"

Second, Travis Mcgee predicted al Qaeda Islamofacist thugs would be drawn into Iraq like moths to a big candle. Actually he underestimated the incoming thugs to be slaughtered. It has been more like moths flying into huge bonfires.

That is the reason why the surviving so called brain trust of al Qaeda will probably pull back its thugs. Our spec ops and regular warriors are killing them all over Iraq as they come into Iraq or do something stupid in Iraq after they arrive.

Al Qaeda has never worried about killing innocent Arabs, Jews, or Americans.

[CougarGA7]

Meanwhile at Osama Terror Works LLC:

"Hey Akmed! We are running waaaay low on suicide bombers."

"OK. Tell them to get out of Iraq until we can resupply. We are really ticking the people there off anyway."

[fish hawk]

but..but..but there are NO ties with al Qaeda in Iraq??? I saw it on the news.

[Billthedrill]

The squabbling that is currently going on in Iraq is actually a healthy sign in one very important way - it means that the Iraqis are focused on forming a new government, meaning that (1) they now know the Ba'athists aren't going to roll back as they did in '91, (2) they are convinced that the U.S. really is going to leave with Iraqis in charge and (3) non-Iraqi buttinskis have run out of anything substantive to offer. It is the last issue that is causing al-Qaeda to cut its losses - literally.

It was Tom Clancy who made the point in one of his novels that even the most powerful and well-funded terrorist organization would be insane to attempt to confront even a medium-sized state directly - the difference in terms of funding and manpower is simply not even close within several orders of magnitude. And al-Qaeda has done precisely that, only it wasn't a single medium-sized state, it was the Big Dog and a whole lot of its friends.

Frankly, they gain nothing by continuing to destabilize Iraq. They've come to the position of attempting to conduct a guerrilla war as easily-identified foreigners in open terrain and with half-trained amateurs against professionals, a position that has "loser" written all over it, top to bottom. Their core competency is murdering unarmed civilians, and this is no longer the place for it.

[e5man_r_u?]

the fanatic legion of "foreign fighters" may no longer be welcome in most quarters of Iraq.

I have heard of civilian protests against the foreign fighters even before Saddam was flushed from his hole. Cautiously optimistic!

[Cicero]

You won't see this being said in the mainstream press, unfortunately. The New York Post is a major exception. Most of the media haven't even admitted that al Quaeda is involved in the Iraqi terrror attacks, let alone that they are losing the war.

Ketchup Kerry doesn't have to explain his position on this successful outcome for Bush, because he will never be asked, not by any of the interviewers he is likely to sit down with.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Bin Laden isn't telling anybody anything. Bin Laden is dead. If he were alive, it wouldn't be necessary to forge video and audio tapes for him.

[cake_crumb]

Wait a minute. Whoever's running al Qaeda sounds like they think they might have gotten themselves into a Quagmire. Like they were too overconfident of success and don't have enough troops to finish the job in Iraq. Like it's costing them too much with funding being cut and taking too long.

Sounds like they are taking the advice they and their allies in the UN and Democrat party gave to the president and all American patriots : RUN AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!

[M Kehoe]

I've been asking this question since Dec 2001:

Would someone, anyone, take a picture of Osama holding a current edition of the NYT? Please.

5.56mm

[SuziQ]

"It's clear that the killing of a lot of Muslims in Iraq is something al Qaeda now wants to avoid," Katz said.

DOH! Kinda slow on the uptake, weren't they?

[lorrainer]

I just think he saw the outburst after the caucus the other night, and realized that Dean had no chance to be President. It's W for four more.

[dangus]

CASUALTIES DOWN SHARPLY!!!

The number of troops killed in Iraq, thank God, are too few to notice any statistically significant trends.

BUT... in August, there were over 1000 wounded. October: 433; November: 344; December: 294; January: 146; January (extrapolated for full month): about 225.

Please ping this data

(Source: http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx)

[BigSkyFreeper]

OBL finally got his DNC literature.