Posted on 06/01/2006 9:11:58 AM PDT by AmericanYankee
insurgents rule Sunni citadel
Guardian gains rare access to Iraqi town and finds it fully in control of 'mujahideen'
Omer Mahdi in Haditha and Rory Carroll in Baghdad Monday August 22, 2005 The Guardian
The executions are carried out at dawn on Haqlania bridge, the entrance to Haditha. A small crowd usually turns up to watch even though the killings are filmed and made available on DVD in the market the same afternoon. One of last week's victims was a young man in a black tracksuit. Like the others he was left on his belly by the blue iron railings at the bridge's southern end. His severed head rested on his back, facing Baghdad. Children cheered when they heard that the next day's spectacle would be a double bill: two decapitations. A man named Watban and his brother had been found guilty of spying.
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Excellent points. We need to send this around to as many sources as possible.
This sort of backs up the old saying that when the enemy is fighting a purely guerrilla war, there are no innocent civilians.
Think it's changed any?
Sounds like Haditha has been ripe for a thorough cleansing for a long time. Hope the likes of Murtha doesn't stop it.
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Snicker, snicker, sigh.
Thanks for posting. I imagine the American MSM won't be lining up to print this.
Where is John "they killed innocent civilians in cold blood." Murtha now?
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Note the date.
Hmm indeed, August 2005, just three months prior to the Marine incident in Haditha in November of that same year.
A solid view of the conditions surrounding our troops at the time, a war zone to would be the least that could be said of it.
Considering the lives these children must have lived so far, it's not surprising that they would be a little jaded for cartoons, and prefer to watch beheadings. They probably see people killed every day, so it's not shocking anymore.
Show them the real limitations, or lack thereof, on US power. Warm up the B-52s, all that we have left, maybe add the similar number of B-1Bs. Leave no stone atop another, no mud hut standing. To encourage the others.
Can we send Jack Murtha over to Haditha, to negotiate their surrender ... one-way ticket.
Try this source: On record
Lieut. Colonel Michelle Martin-Hing, spokeswoman for the Multi-National Force-Iraq, told Time the involvement of the ncis does not mean that a crime occurred. And she says the fault for the civilian deaths lies squarely with the insurgents, who "placed noncombatants in the line of fire as the Marines responded to defend themselves."
Or explain how the WaPo completely screwed up a On Record source: (From Hugh Hewitt):
The Post has been unable to get anyone from the Pentagon on the record on the investigation, using mostly anonymous sources. The one man they did get on the record on Friday was retired Brig. Gen. David H. Brahms, a long-time lawyer with the Marine Corps who has experience with these types of cases. His quote is in the third paragraph. See if you can guess why the prominent first-quote placement:
"When these investigations come out, there's going to be a firestorm," said retired Brig. Gen. David M. Brahms, formerly a top lawyer for the Marine Corps. "It will be worse than Abu Ghraib -- nobody was killed at Abu Ghraib."
I have a feeling someone was lying in wait for an Abu Ghraib reference. I read the quote and was taken aback because I spoke to the same Brig. Gen. David M. Brahms about the case this week, and his sentiments were very different from those presented in the Post. Which explains why he sent me this statement yesterday:
"Recent reporting on the events in Haditha, Iraq have included significant factual errors and/or misleading statements. This includes a quote attributed to me in the Washington Post this morning that was taken completely out of context and its meaning distorted. Many facts that are favorable to the Marines involved have not yet been disclosed."
32 posted on 06/01/2006 8:40:31 AM PDT by pissant
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641730/posts?page=32#32
August 22, 2005, 3 months before the incident with the Marines. You think things changed much in those 3 months?
Not 'we' taking the word of thses vipers in haditha, Murtha, the democrap party, and their sycophantic media whores are taking the word ... nay, they are promoting the word of these insane people over the word of anyone else because it serves the agenda to bring defeat at any cost, and the bastards KNOW they are being lied to and manipulated but they are allies to the democrats and the liberal lickspittlists of media in America.
PING
If this is deemed to be a planted story by the insurgents. Then we can basically come to a conclusion that:
Certain politicians do not act in the best interest of our soldiers and should be held accountable.
We are losing the propaganda war.
The MSM is too quick to "make" news not "report" news making it increasingly simple for the insurgency to spread propaganda. The MSM has absolutely no form of investigative or journalistic morals or ethics when they rush to judgement during a time of war with headline like: "Report Shows Marines Were Unprovoked In Haditha Massacre" when nothing remotely close to that was even proven.
Yep. This is a catch-22: to build up iraq and do business there we have to go through organizations and companies owned by people who hate us in some places. Haditha would seem to be such a place. Only one answer to a Catch-22: eliminate the underlying premises - to your point.
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