Pressure Grows on al Zarqawi and al Qaeda in Iraq

ABC News ^ | Jan. 30, 2006

[Southack]

"In my opinion, you are missing one significant thread. The Sunnis used to be clients of the Soviet Union. I believe they are currently functioning as clients of Russia. it should be clear by now to most people that the Iranians are clients of Russia."

Nope. The Mad Mullahs are idiots. Those Persians are backing Al Qaeda in Chechnya, whose Islamic fanatics have been blowing up whole apartment blocks in Moscow, seizing theatres, massacre-ing children in Beslan, etc.

What Putin has done is to set up Iran. Iran's nuclear ambitions, merily aided by the wiley Putin, will get the Mad Mullah's knocked on their heads, hard (either by the U.S. or Israel, possibly by both, perhaps simultaneously, or perhaps sequentially).

In this manner Russia makes out like a bandit by selling goods and services to Iran...then financial support for Putin's enemies in Chechnya dries up due to the attacks on Tehran...and the price of oil, Russia's key export item, skyrockets.

Putin is quite simply selling Tehran the rope that will be used to hang the Mad Mullahs.

Putin no more wants Iran to control Iraq (and its vast oil wealth) than he would want Chechnya to rule over Moscow.

But Russia's ability to project power (see: Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine) is very limited right now...so Putin is using his wiles rather than his military.

Which is to say that the U.S. and/or Israel will do Putin's dirty work for him when the time comes (later, not sooner).

[farlander]

I wouldn't be surprised they already disappeared him. If not already, his day is coming, and that real soon.

[prairiebreeze]

bump to read later

[Dan(9698)]

My son is on his way home from Iraq.

It is his third time over there.

[McGavin999]

All you have to do is prove to the Shieks that they can get richer by becoming traders than they are as smugglers and you've won.

As to the "insurgents" they will either become a functioning part of society or the tribes will slaughter them.

The most effective thing they could do is arrange for a week long trip for all the tribal shieks up to the Kurdish area where democracy already has a firm hold and they will be the strongest supporters of democracy in Iraq.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Please thank you son for me and my family.

[Dan(9698)]

I will.

We are going down to babysit while he and his wife have a few days alone.

He is a Weapons Director.

He sits at a console and directs the airplanes in the battlefield. He says it is the ultimate video game.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I'm only an "Operations Director". I'd much rather be a "Weapons Director". LOL!

[pfflier]

The implications are tremendous for Iraq, the American military presence in Iraq, and the war against al Qaeda. The tide has seemed to turn against the al Zarqawi network in Iraq

I'm stunned, that ABC actually said this.