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1. HUMINT: Your Cerebral Cortex
2. HUMINT: Diary of a Brit
3. HUMINT: Eternal Vigilance
4. HUMINT: Tactical Retreat?
5. HUMINT: Locke is the key
6. HUMINT: Dissidents, Rebels and Terrorists
7. HUMINT: Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Unknown, Unknowns
8. HUMINT: Cold War to Terror
9. HUMINT: Studying Sadr City
10. HUMINT: Kill the Messenger
11. HUMINT: Bending Identity
12. HUMINT: New Iran Policy?
13. HUMINT: Iran Smuggling Iraqi Oil?
14. HUMINT: The American Street

[GSlob]

" ....it could be criticized from completely different directions, three of which are summarized below in a deliberately cartoonish fashion:
Criticism direction 1 [from the "lefties"]: too well known and repeated to deserve further mentioning.
Criticism direction 2 [from the "realists"]: not enough troops. More troops would resolve everything. [Israelis somehow have not been able to resolve everything after 60 years of conflict while enjoying overwhelming superiority]
Criticism direction 3 [from the "troglodytes", or "huntingtonians"]: the nature of intercivilizational war is such that any lasting success in it [measured in the breaking the enemy's WILL to fight - i.e. in breaking that enemy's civilizational identity in which that will is rooted] would have to be of genocidal nature. Thus not dusting up erstwhile Lieutenant William Calley, jump-promoting him to Lieutenant General, and sending him there as a theater commander was the first error. Everything else followed from it."

[backtothestreets]

The Sunni-Shiite hostilities have raged for nearly 1400 years. They will not voluntarily cease their hostilities. Nonetheless, Iraq may still hold the key to stability. The key may rest with the Iraqi Kurds.

In that neither the Sunni nor Shiite populations have displayed a willingness to stop hostilities, it might be prudent to enlist the Kurdish population to police the streets of the Sunni and Shiite areas with express orders to shot to kill anyone that is armed. This would require withdrawal of all Iraqi military forces from the population centers while militias are killed, captured, and effectively disarmed. It would also require our military to give maximum air and land support wherever resistance must be broken. It would further require a strict ban against Sunni and Shiite travel to the Kurdish region while peace is restored.

We are all witnesses of all that has gone wrong in Iraq, but for the most part, we are slow to acknowledge what has gone right, and the Kurdish region of Iraq has been a success that should play a larger role in restoring peace to the remainder of Iraq. The Kurdish region represents a success. We have been slow to build upon that success, and may not have many such opportunities remaining to try.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Credit to TexKat
Names of six Iranian Revolutionary Guard agents killed in Baghdad’s "Madinat as-Sadr" car bombings on Thursday.

Names of six Iranian Revolutionary Guard agents killed in Baghdad "Madinat as-Sadr" car bombings on Thursday published.

In a dispatch posted at 1:42pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that on Saturday the Iranian embassy in Baghdad received the bodies of six Iranian members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who were secretly working in Iraq with the Shi'i sectarian militias and were killed in the car bombings of Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen in the Madinat Saddam area on Thursday night. The Baghdad area of Madinat Saddam was nicknamed "Madinat as-Sadr" after the US occupation of Iraq in 2003.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the six bodies of the Iranian agents were received by Mujtabi Sari Nida, an employee of the Iranian embassy, from al-Kindi Hospital where they had been taken initially after the Resistance attack.

The Iranian regime claimed that the six Revolutionary Guards were present among the Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen just as "ordinary citizens" on "pilgrimage" to the Shi'i al-Kazimiyah mosque.

The Iranian agents were killed in a part of Baghdad some 30km from the al-Kazimiyah mosque, the correspondent pointed out, noting that the area was, however, a stronghold for the Jaysh al-Mahdi and Badr Brigade Shi'i sectarian militias which receive support from Iran and the United States.

The following are the names of the six Iranian "Revolutionary Guards" killed in the Thursday car bomb attacks:

'Ali Shamkhani, killed by bleeding in the brain;
Baqir Dhu al-Qadr Rida, killed by severe wounds to the chest and back;
Muhammad Husayni, burned to death;
Ramadan Fayruzandah, died of a crushed skull and burns;
Qasim Taskhiri Rida Agha (passport NO. 01459872 from Karmanshahr, Iran) had his leg blown off and suffered a wound to the neck;
'Ali Farhad Salmani, died of a severe lateral cut on his chest and from having both legs blown off.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported an informed source as saying that 30 commanders of the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia were killed in the Thursday attacks, among them Husayn Fattumah, who carried the name of his mother because he was a marked man after abducting three Sunni girls from a Qur’an memorization school on Palestine Street.

The regional hegemonic regime in Iran is seeking to secure its hold in Iraq by using Shi'i sectarian leaders and organizations in order to try to step into the shoes of the American occupation authorities whose grip on the country has been weakened by three years of increasingly severe Resistance attacks. To forestall Iran’s attempt to replace America as colonial power in Iraq, the Iraqi Resistance continues its offensive against pro-Iranian as well as US and pro-US groups and facilities.

http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28552




223 posted on 11/26/2006 2:34:13 AM CST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)

[Marine_Uncle]

A well thought out analysis of the three put into basic historical context. We really have no option at this point but to do whatever is required to fully stabilize Iraq and show the hard core Islamos that the ME will change for the better.
The road will be a tough one. We need intelligent people in congress that put politics below the future of the USA and for that matter much of the civilized world, as well as strong determined POTUS to follow in GWB's footsteps. There are no other options.

[parisa]

This is such a late reply, but I just wanted to let you know I appreciate your pings, and I have been reading - slowly, I'm afraid ;-} - your posts. Thank you.