Iraqi General Urges Support of U.S. Troops

I think this here has been overlooked;

"Our country is precious, stop allowing the bad guys to come from outside Iraq to destroy our country."

It seems to me it is still not clear who the heck we are fighting in the Sunni areas. The Shia terrorists are Iran's flunkies supplied and funded by Iran, but actually Iraqis.

What percentage of the Sunni terrorists are Iraqis? Syrians? Palestinians? I have a strong feeling that it is mostly the latter. There were quite a few of them in Iraq thanks to Saddam when we invaded, and as far as I know we took no steps to remove them.

Further, while Syria is certainly trying to destabilize Iraq, they've shown in the past a certain despicable level of brilliance in getting the Palis to do their dirty work for them...

"Those bullets that are fired will not get the Americans out, let them finish their job here so that they can return to their country," Latif said.

"Our country is precious, stop allowing the bad guys to come from outside Iraq to destroy our country."

"Let us speak about peace," Latif said in English. "Fallujah was an open wound, now it's healing."

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Voice of reason (who knows he has a big enemy target on his back), ping!

I first read Maj. Gen. Mohammed Abdul-Latif’s name in an Associated Press article dated May 4th, 2005. My personal thanks to the Associated Press for providing an unbiased view of the Coalition, American and Iraqi war against foreign terrorists. The entire article can be read at:

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2004/05/04/nation_world/news21.txt

The following are excerpts from this article.

“A new Iraqi military force was patrolling Fallujah, taking over for Marines pulling back from the city, where U.S. forces have been battling Sunni insurgents.

“A senior Marine officer said the new Iraqi force, which was swiftly formed with U.S. backing and will eventually number up to 1,100 troops, is "meeting expectations" in bringing calm.

“A nearly month long siege left 10 Marines and several hundred Iraqis dead in the city west of Baghdad.

“Col. John Coleman, chief of staff for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said "there is a percentage of (the city) where normalcy has returned."

“Maj. Gen. Mohammed Abdul-Latif, who opposed former dictator Saddam Hussein, was preparing to take over as head of the new force, subject to a final background check.

“The U.S. move to have Abdul-Latif lead the Fallujah Brigade came amid complaints from some Iraqis that Maj. Gen. Jassim Mohammed Saleh, a former member of Saddam's Republican Guard, may have been involved in past repression by the ousted regime.”

Ed

Ragtime, do you think this could be one of Chief Wiggles's "Generals"?

Also, Wiggles asks for help in getting word to the media that he is available for interview re interrogation techniques done the right way... do we have any media types we can alert?

Thanks for the ping...
Jerez

"Does anyone know what the 2 chemicals are, that are supposed to mix at detonation of these 155mm sarin rounds?"

"Yes. You can google the information, as Sarin binary how-to has been documented for decades. Isopropyl alcohol is one half of the binary IIRC, and therefore innocuous, the other half is a nasty organic phosphate of limited application."

So... does that mean that Blix just constantly skirted the issue of WMDs, knowing all along that these 2 chemicals, which Iraq had lots of and is documented, had to mix during an explosion? If so, man has the US public and the world been fed tons of BS from Blix and his UN slimy partners in crime!!!

just repeating for emphasis and publicity:

"As President Bush (news - web sites) said, they did not come here to occupy
our land but to get rid of Saddam. We can help them leave by helping them do their
job, or we can make them stay ten years and more by keeping fighting."

Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne, the Marine battalion commander, said, "No truer words
have been spoken here today than those by General Latif."

I hope Latif stays alive and proves to have major infuluence.

A tip of the hat to Yahoo! News for publishing this...I've only heard of this
on a show on KFI radio here in Los Angeles.

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