Black Flags Are Deadly Signals as Cornered Rebels Fight Back (NYT)

New York Times ^ | December 12, 2004 | Dexter Filkins

[DBeers]

LMAO

[endthematrix]

LOL! I am terrified...

[TeleStraightShooter]

Yes, not only does Joe Isuzu have nothing on Baghdad Bob,
Baghdad Bob was evolved into the symbolic icon of the flailing, blathering antiWar left.

[neverdem]

You forgot the pics. Here's a map as well from a different Times' story.

Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times
Marines fought on Thursday in an industrial zone in southern Falluja.

Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times
Marines kept an eye out Thursday for black flags, used by insurgents to gather and attack, in Falluja fighting.

[xzins]

The flags are the insurgents' answer to two-way radios, their way of massing the troops and - in a tactic that goes back at least as far as Napoleon - concentrating fire on an enemy. Set against radio waves, the flags have one distinct advantage: they are terrifying.

The NYT is idiotic.

The terrorists using black shirts to communicate while our guys use satellite, computers, and frequency hopping radio is the battlefield equivalent of them using bows and arrows against Abrams tanks.

Black shirts, NYT, is a BAD SIGN for them....not a good one.

[macbee]

GOD BLESS GENERAL DYNAMICS.

Used to work there. During "Gulf War I", we were all proud to see products like the F-16, Abrams tank, and Tomahawk cruise missile doing precisely what they were designed to do. Most of GD got sold off to other military contractors in the aftermath of that war, but Land Systems' products are certainly kickin' butt in this one.

[spodefly]

You FREEPERS are jaded--you've put up with this sh*t for so long, you're used to it. I'm telling you--it's SICK. It's WRONG.

It's the New York Times. They have always been like this. Don't spend your life shoveling sand against the tide. They are not going to change. The good news is they are becoming irrelevant.

[537cant be wrong]

yeah well..........
send a d___ head a** wipe to college and all you get is an
educated d___ head a** wipe.

[American in Israel]

Set against radio waves, the flags have one distinct advantage: they are terrifying.

They also mean "Please drop a bomb here". Which by the way is a lot nicer than using a radio. It is hard to see where the radio is coming from. Leftist's are idiots.

However the terrorists will now fight, as we used encirclement as a tactic. No place to run to now bozos, it is time to die. Terrorist's hate fighting soldiers, they much prefer to blow up babies from some safe remote place.

The "Brave" Jihadi tend to die at over 30 to 1 odds when they are forced to fight like men instead of the cowards that they are. What is so incredible about that is they have the position, the time to prepare defenses and are on the defensive. Crap, even with everything on their side, they die like flies! Some Jihad. If this is God's warriors, it is obvious that even He hates them. Frickin idiots could not fight their way out of a paper bag with a bazooka.

They could not fight girl scouts armed with sling shots and expect to get even odds.

[American in Israel]

The guy said sorry and asked how to edit it, you don't have to rip his head off

They don't call him Mad Tom for nothing you know... -grin-

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Black Flag - I seem to remember that means no mercy. Yes indeed no mercy for these sons of Satan.

[tx_eggman]

They're roaches, scurrying for cover. Here's their Black Flag:

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Suscribe to the NY Sun. They were recently formed to provide a conservative view in NYC.

[libs_kma]

"I hope Dexter gets one between the eyes. If those Marines ever catch wind of this article, he just might.

Isn't there a contractor working with the Army over there that is also a freeper, named Allegra maybe? If we find some freepers from there maybe they can pass this article out to the Marines. Not that I advocate putting a bullet between this pukes eyes. One day in Leavenworth for a POS like that would be too many, but the Marines finding out what he writes about them would be priceless.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Oh Dude!

[Robespierre]

I like the title! Black flags are deadly, to the terrorists. Also like the idea that they didnt slip away before the offensive. I dont want any of them to 'slip' away. I want them all to die a glorious death.

[tomtuttle]

Black flags ... I certainly hope our military pilots are on the lookout for these signs of impending death. Maybe they'd better not even fly NEAR the areas where black flags have been reported. F-18's, A-130's, Warthogs and the like are NO MATCH for these BLACK FLAGS!!!

[Scales]

Thanks for the info. I thought DEXTER FILKINS was a pen name for Baghdad Bob. I thought I found out where he ended up after the war, working for the NYT.

[ArGee]

So the insurgents are turning and fighting.

And dying.

Shalom.

[xzins]

LOL!

Precisely.

The NYT has insight into these HIGH TECH black flags....I mean didn't they tell us that NAPOLEAN himself used such 18th century, advanced high tech tactics.

Every liberal historian knows that today's US military would be no match for the French under the genius Napolean. Liberal genius will THINK those A-10 Warthogs into irrelevance. Liberal genius will always destroy and dismantle M1A2 Abrams Tanks with black flags.

/sarcasm

What numbnutz!