US troops fighting losing battle for Sunni triangle

The Daily Telegraph ^ | 10/22/2005 | Adrian Blomfield

[1066AD]

Perhaps fearful of public reaction in America, where support for the war is falling, US officials suppressed details of the Sept 20 attack, which bore a striking resemblance to the murder of four other contractors in Fallujah last year.

[Lurker]

Flamethrowers. We need flamethrowers. Lots and lots of them.

L

[JimRic54]

Disappointing to see the Telegraph turning into the Guardian.

[satchmodog9]

no sh*t.

[bnelson44]

See:

The Anbar Campaign - A Flash Presentation

http://billroggio.com/archives/2005/10/the_anbar_campa_4.php

[Ramius]

Telegraph? How about a ~reputable~ source?

[MarkL]

Is this something that actually just happened, or is it a retelling of the last time contractors were murdered and their bodies desecrated?

If it's something new, we do the eqiuvalent of "nuking the planet from orbit... It's the only way to be sure."

Seriously, if this is something new, we need to get the friendlies out of the city, surrounding it and giving them 24 houre. Then raize it to the ground, killing everyone left there.

Mark

[Ramius]

They've never been all that different. Sorta like the difference between the Enquirer and the Weekly World News.

[goldstategop]

The MSM keeps highlighting bad news for America in Iraq. They have a template and they will ignore or supress anything that doesn't fit their picture of Iraq-as-Vietnam and America as the helpless and losing giant.

("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")

[MarkL]

Barefoot children, yelping in delight, piled straw on to the screaming man's body to stoke the flames.

They are lost as human beings, and must be treated as young predators that must be eliminated.

Mark

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

We don't have the stomach for the brutality it will take to cow the Sunnis. Besides even if we had the stomach for it the Demoncrats would have our guys in jail. I think the Dems are hoping to have a string of berka stores for their newly converted and circumsized wives and daughters. We will have to get super serious soon with bigger weaponry or just die house to house.

[Fenris6]

"How about a ~reputable~ source?"

http://michaelyon.blogspot.com/

[Criminal Number 18F]

. We need flamethrowers. Lots and lots of them.

Give them to the Kurds and the Shia. "You may spare the females if you have a use for them. The men are yours. These are the Ba'athists that made your people suffer for thirty years."

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[ncountylee]

Flamethrowers. We need flamethrowers. Lots and lots of them.

Nape and bake, then flamethrower clean up.

[bnelson44]

This guy seems to have a pessimistic side:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?&_DARGS=/core/lowerHeaderBarFrag.jhtml

[Ramius]

Does Michael talk about these events? Doesn't appear so, from a quick review of his page.

I do like Michael Yon. He's done some quality work.

[wigswest]

I'm confused - isn't this the story from March 2004?

[bnelson44]

Adrian Blomfield tends to be negative. Funny he doesn't talk about the positive side of what has been happening this month. http://billroggio.com/

[Criminal Number 18F]

...they doused the other with petrol and set him alight. Barefoot children, yelping in delight, piled straw on to the screaming man's body to stoke the flames.

Gee. I wonder who observed and reported on this. Does The Telegraph too have terrorists on its payroll, Ba'athist dogs like the AP's Bilal Hussein?

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[oceanview]

only the iraqi forces can win this phase of the war, we cannot do it for them - we can help, but there is a limit. our forces already won the phase of the war they were designed to conduct.