Black Flags Are Deadly Signals as Cornered Rebels Fight Back (New York Times Alert)

New York Times ^ | 11/11/04 | DEXTER FILKINS

[LibSnubber]

Thanks for the visual, Red. Made me smile for the first time today!

[CFC__VRWC]

When did the Slimes hire Robert Fisk? "Dexter Filkins" has to be his pseudonym.

[RedMonqey]

Glad to be the one;)

[Mr. K]

I would guess that a few gallons of gasoline allowed to evaporate in a tunnel and a match would make a nice improvised FAE (fuel-air explosion)

[LibSnubber]

This is why I'm not really smiling today:

FREEP Duke: Terrorists Call For US Intifada and Actively Recruit Future Terrorists On Campus

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1278354/posts

Could you please help me FREEP Duke University? If so, spread the word! Thanks a mil.

[Stentor]

I agree. The Times shouldn't be embedded.

Is Dex embedded or is he writing this watching CNN in a bar in Hoboken. It's a Times thing. You wouldn't understand.

[eyespysomething]

There's apparently a lot of fuel in Iraq... Dump in a few thousand gallons and toss a match.

I think they are, I read on a thread in the past few days they were pouring fuel/oil/something flammable into the tunnels and lighting them, and saying the terrorists can either come out or burn to death, their choice.

[wildbill]

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

Yeah, stupid. Terrifying to the insurgents that have to use technology from the middle ages against drones, video and lasers.

"Yoohoo. Here we are. Over here. On the fourth floor, next to the...."[BRRRRRRRRRAAPPPPPPPPPPP noise from C130 gunship]

[MontanaBeth]

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.

Of course the fact that they are forced to use flags as a means of communication has nothing to do with the fact that their religion keeps them in the dark ages. And they are terrifying to whom exactly? I can't imagine a black flag causing terror to our courageous United States Marines. Go get 'em Marines!

[RedMonqey]

It seems the anti-Semites at Duke have traded in their white sheets for black robes and caps...