[saquin]

But, he said: "We are besieged here now. It is a great emotional victory, but bad strategy. It is very easy now for the Americans to come and kill us all."

Yup.

[Gucho]

"They are not Muslims?"

"No."

The young man looked with puzzlement at the other fighter and said: "But then, why don't we kill them?"

Complete twilight zone, outer limit WHACKO'S.

[DocRock]

"But then, why don't we kill them?"

"We can't do that now..."

This journalist is in line for the Darwin Award.

[hpfisher]

Well anyway...exactly how would they "liberate Iraq" when they're the oppresive opposition? Man, those "insurgents" are always on target!

Let's martyr them!

[angkor]

..."Do you know how to make these things work?"

..."shouting "Allahu Akbar" every time they heard explosions, believing it would divert the missiles away."

..."a fighter whose task is to explode himself"

..."It is a great emotional victory, but bad strategy. It is very easy now for the Americans to come and kill us all."

These people are psychotic barbarians.

[The_Reader_David]

It's nice to have a report from the media which proves in the words of our enemies what I have been saying about the wisdom and conduct of the Iraq war.

The original mission was accomplished, the war which was a continuation of the first Gulf War in terms of international law--destroying the Ba'athist regime which had violated the terms of the Gulf War armistice--ended in our complete victory. "Mission Accomplished" as the banner said.

The present fighting proves what I have said repeatedly. Iraq (and Fallujah in particular) have become the 21st century analogue of the Aegean island the Venetians held for 19 years against the Turks: the place jihadis go to die.

As one of our officers in Iraq said 'In war you always prefer away games to home games.'

[Jhensy]

Holy crap do these people need killin'.

[joesnuffy]

asked one of them, a young teacher from Saudi Arabia, why he was there. He started reading the verses in the Qur'an that urge Muslims to commit jihad. He read about the importance of martyrdom.

Guess he needs to talk to the REAL muslims...the moderates who live in the USA eh?

It's really a religion of peace...

[yooper]

"One kind, Arab fighters from the new generation of the jihad diaspora, were teachers, workers and students from across the Arab world feeling oppressed and alienated by the west; they came to Iraq with dreams of martyrdom."

I hope that all of their dreams come true.

"The amir told me: "All we want is the Americans to leave, and then everything will be fine, the Kurds will stop talking about seceding from Iraq, the Shias will stop talking about settling scores with Sunnis and each province will elect a council and these councils will elect a president."

And he also has a bridge and some low lying real estate to sell.

[ConservativeLawyer]

Its time for us to implement the urban equivalent to the "highway of death."

[fso301]

They talked about how martyrs would not feel pain

Dude is going to learn some hard lessons shortly, which if he survives will leave him so disillusioned with mohammed worshipping that he commits suicide.

[endthematrix]

"We are here for one of two things - victory or martyrdom, and both are great"

Know you enemy.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Most of the time, when they weren't reading or praying, they spoke about death, not fearfully, but in happy anticipation. They talked about how martyrs would not feel pain and about how many virgins they would get in heaven.

Manchurian candidates all.

[FreedomCalls]

"They are not Muslims?"

"No."

"... then, why don't we kill them?"

Hellooooo, blue-state people, can you hear what he is saying?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

"The young man looked with puzzlement at the other fighter and said: "But then, why don't we kill them?""

There's a reason why the victors throughout the Persian and Peloponnesian wars sold the women and elderly into slavery and slew all the young men and boys.

Such pathological hatred and violence is a cultural issue that often can only be changed by ending the bloodline.

Nice god you scum worship, by the way.

[SuziQ]

I had to keep reminding myself that these people blow up civilians every day in Iraq.

They are brainwashed by the cult of Islam.

[GeorgiaYankee]

"Know your enemy" bump

[Razorism]

I think the statement "then pointed his machine gun at the horizon, trying to release the safety catch. He fiddled with the gun for a few minutes, then turned to me: "Do you know how to make these things work?"" is an outright lie. A lie designed to build sympathy for the terrorist with the Guardian's readership in England. How dumb would you have to be to not know how to flip a lever? After days or weeks in a battle zone. More left wing propaganda the Guardian is full of it.

[sport]

I am with the skinny kid. Kill the @%^%^$"reporters".