Posted on 11/19/2005 7:55:37 AM PST by Valin
Dead men tell no tales, but luckily for intelligence analysts, live women do.
Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi was not able to detonate her bomb at the wedding party and fled with the guests as her husband exploded himself. Now, she is in the custody of the GID, Jordan’s intelligence agency. By all accounts, the interrogation is going slowly. Still, enough information is emerging for us to draw some lessons for the triple bombings in Amman, Jordan, on November 9.
Mrs. al-Rishawi’s family history reveals just how effective the U.S. military has proven to be in eliminating insurgents. Jordanian intelligence has learned that three of her brothers were killed by coalition forces in Iraq. Her brother, Thamir al-Rashawi, a member al-Zarqawi’s inner circle, was killed in April 2004 in Fallujah, when a missile fired from a U.S. aircraft struck his pick-up truck. Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister Marwan al-Mu’ashir described her brother, Thamir, as “the emir [commander] of the Al-Anbar region [of the Iraqi insurgency] in the Al-Qa’idah of Jihad Organization in the Land of Two Rivers. He was the right hand of Abu-Mus’ab al-Zarqawi.”
Buy Now Save 34% Her other two brothers, Ammar and Yassir, died in separate battles with U.S. forces in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2005.
Explosives Expert
Mrs. Al-Rishawi’s sister had been married to a Jordanian explosives expert, Nidal Mohammed Arabiyat, also killed by U.S. forces in Iraq, according to Agence France Presse.
Though the American media is slow to report it, U.S. forces are relentlessly destroying Zarqawi’s senior leadership. A November 2 air strike killed two senior al Qaeda operatives in Iraq: Abu Zahra, the so-called Emir of Husaybah, ran all insurgent operations in that Iraqi city, and Asadallah, Zarqawi’s key recruiter. U.S. forces have now confirmed the identities of both dead terrorists.
On October 23, U.S. forces captured Abu Hassan, the head of al-Zarqawi’s media cell. Hassan was responsible for producing video tapes of insurgent attacks to give to al-Jazeera and other television networks. Hassan even produced forged police and press passes to allow insurgents to case targets and film the devastation following insurgent attacks.
Following these air strikes and captures, Zarqawi ordered the Amman attacks. Was it a sign of desperation? Was he trying to regain the initiative from weeks of reverses?
Another sign of desperation: Consider who Zarqawi sent to run the Amman operation, Mrs. Al-Rishawi’s husband. He also a member of Zarqawi’s inner circle. He is now dead. Why did Zarqawi send a top officer to die? He has already lost so many. It suggests that either he’s running short of suicide bombers (typically Saudi recruits) or he’s running short of people he trusts. Either way, it’s a sign of desperation.
Meanwhile, Mrs. al-Rishawi is alive and apparently talking. She can certainly tell her interrogators the location of the other insurgents and perhaps Zarqawi’s hiding place.
Task Force 626, established last year by the Defense Department, is still searching for Zarqawi. At least three times in the past year, U.S. forces just missed capturing the archterrorist, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“We truly believe that Zarqawi’s days are limited,” Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, deputy chief of staff of the multinational force in Iraq, told the Times. At least seven members of Zarqawi’s inner circle have been killed or captured. Another 38 regional insurgent commanders have been seized or slain as well as some 71 insurgent leaders that the military refers to as “tier three.” “Given [the] many, many sources of intelligence and information, we have great success at killing or capturing his leaders, his cell leaders, his coordinators and his lieutenants, and this chart just continues to expand, and eventually, he’s going to be on this chart,” Lynch said.
Time is running out for Zarqawi. And the Amman blasts may have only sped up the inevitable.
Mr. Miniter is author of Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror.
The closer we come to victory, the more desperate the dems become.
z-man deadpool bump
Always the sign of bravery, send everyone else to die while you kick back and direct the slaughter.
Murtha know about this or does it matter to him???
Sounds like my kind of quagmire!
I hope she has the adress of Amnesty or Human right watch.
She will need them, as , I can't imagine the Jordanians going soft on her to get infos.
Silly me, Amnesty and the likes only seem to take the easy option.Sue democratic countries for violation of human rights.
K.
Right you are, good news for the US has, for a long while, been bad news for the Demoncraps.
It will take more than 34% off for me to consider purchasing those two.
"Buy Now Save 34%"
LOL. I had to check the article to see if Miniter said that or not.
As for his idea that Zarqawi is running out of suicide bombers, someone else brought that up several days ago. Maybe a FReeper named AdmSmith.
Meanwhile Jay Leno and David Letterman will make light of these successes, as they did with Osama's "barber"--who did much, much more than just cut hair. And people like Murtha will just turn a blind eye and insist we cease and desist immediately--talk about trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory...!
Boy, do I feel good now! I mean, it's like I'm a REAL Freeper!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524767/posts
Well, I'm not sure this qualifies you yet. In order to really excel, you must say something more like, "You blithering idiot, can't you find the search feature? What are you, some kind of troll?" and so on.
;)
All kidding aside, sure glad it was reposted. I never saw the first one.
Even jihadis will not volunteer to die for what they see as a losing cause. We have seen this erosion for some time now in Iraq. They have been reduced to using 10 year olds and the retarded. There was evidence some time ago that some of the car bombers had been chained to the steering wheel, also indications of suicide bombers being remotely detonated.
The trump card for our side is that the jihad has been reduced to having to kill fellow Muslims and Arabs, and this is a loser of a strategy in Iraq. A withdrawal of ground troops will soon be viable, and should be our strategy. Certainly NOW would be premature.
I think the Democrats have gone nuclear because they too see the writing on the wall, that this will be a big win for W. They are trying to position themselves as having been the reason we withdraw, so that they may steal some of the credit for what I see as the end of the jihad when we do. The MSM will no longer have dead American soldiers to use to beat W over the head, and the jihad will lose the only reason that they have ANY willing martyrs: to expel the Great Satan.
If the U.S. Military succeeds (and I believe that it will), then with the Iraqi military can take over much more quickly.
And if the Iraqi military can take over control of their own country more quickly, then the amount of U.S. troops required there lessens.
And if the number of U.S. troops are lessened, that means that they can withdraw AND after completing what they were sent there to do.
So, what I don't understand is: isn't this what the liberal/democRATS publicly say & want? That they "support the troops" and want our U.S. military to withdraw from Iraq asap?
Or maybe...JUST maybe they don't want this scenario because striking a major blow against terrorism would:
Seems to me then that they would willingly dismiss the deaths of 3,000 Americans on 9/11 and the sacrifice of 2,000 U.S. Soldiers all to just weaken Bush and in the subsequent power vacuum grab some political power.
So yeah, I'll proudly and unequivocally state that I truly question most democRATS' patriotism right when we're on the verge of a significant victory in this War on Radical Islam...
Memo to self: search is our friend.
The ONE time I don't search!
They would rather more Americans died, than allow the President a victory in the war on terror.
I've been trying to get my arms around this for some time now, I just don't get it. Normally I can understand another persons point of view...but this is just insane.
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