Posted on 04/27/2007 4:30:10 PM PDT by Pokey78
You and I both know the mainstream media will not report any good news from Iraq....especially news that there is...gasp...actually Al Qaeda in Iraq and we are actually capturing and killing them there....which means the whole Democrats reasons for leaving Iraq because it has nothing to do with the War on Terror is garbage. It is up to Bush and his administration to use the bully pulpit and strong arms this information into peoples psyches because you know the media will not do it.
MARCH 1, 1993 : (SOMALIAN WARLORD MOHAMMED FARAH AIDID MEETS WITH IRAQI INTELLIGENCE OFICIALS IN THE IRAQI EMBASSY) Spring 1993 Mohammed Farah Aidid meets with Iraqi intelligence officials in the Iraqi embassy. Baghdad promises to aid him in his fight against the Americans with the explicit intent of turning Somalia into another Vietnam for the Americans. ---------- "PRE-BUSH timeline/list of Iraq's Ties To Al Queda," by Sam Pender-author of Iraq's Smoking Gun and other books on the matter , 6/12/04 [from US News & Time 1997 to 2000]
OCTOBER 1993 : (SOMALIA : US PURSUIT OF MOHAMMED FARAH AIDID) For the United States, Operation Restore Hope reaches its nadir when members of the U.S. Army's elite Delta Force and the Army Rangers are used to raid warlord headquarters and abduct them. In one such raid, the U.S. forces are dropped into a Mogadishu neighborhood to snatch two lieutenants of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. While the snatch and grab operation is successfully accomplished, trouble starts when two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters are shot down by rocket-propelled grenades. As U.S. Army Rangers attempt to rescue the crews of the downed helicopters, a mob of armed militiamen and angry Somalis descend on the site. A horrific carnage follows that ends only 15 hours later when a combined U.S./U.N. armored convoy manages to reach the trapped Rangers and Delta operators. But for the world, the mission in Somalia would forever be gruesomely remembered for the 18 U.S. Army Rangers killed and footage of the exultant crowds dragging naked, mutilated bodies through the streets of Mogadishu. Despite domestic outrage, the U.S. continues to play a major role in the mission until 1994. - "Through the Ages: Somalia: Timeline." ABCNews.com
[* Of course, 1994 is only 2 months away, you Clinton-worshipping newsies at ABC]
MAY 1998 : (BIN LADEN COMMENTS ON THE US DEFEAT IN SOMALIA) "After our victory in Afghanistan and the defeat of the oppressors who had killed millions of Muslims, the legend about the invincibility of the superpowers vanished. Our boys no longer viewed America as a superpower. So, when they left Afghanistan, they went to Somalia and prepared themselves carefully for a long war. They had thought that the Americans were like the Russians, so they trained and prepared. They were stunned when they discovered how low was the morale of the American soldier. America had entered with 30,000 soldiers in addition to thousands of soldiers from different countries in the world. As I said, our boys were shocked by the low morale of the American soldier and they realized that the American soldier was just a paper tiger. He was unable to endure the strikes that were dealt to his army, so he fled, and America had to stop all its bragging and all that noise it was making in the press after the Gulf War in which it destroyed the infrastructure and the milk and dairy industry that was vital for the infants and the children and the civilians and blew up dams which were necessary for the crops people grew to feed their families. Proud of this destruction, America assumed the titles of world leader and master of the new world order. After a few blows, it forgot all about those titles and rushed out of Somalia in shame and disgrace, dragging the bodies of its soldiers. America stopped calling itself world leader and master of the new world order, and its politicians realized that those titles were too big for them and that they were unworthy of them. I was in Sudan when this happened. I was very happy to learn of that great defeat that America suffered, so was every Muslim...." ------ Osama bin Laden, May 1998
The sad thing is, there are posts on this site that are maybe a word or two different from yours, but they are completely serious.
Frak you, "Senator" Harry Reid
—Well, since the article said “arrested”, unfortunately it’s not Harry Reid.—
Unless it refers to Reid’s arrested development.
—There... that’s better. Move along... nothing to see here... Ooh Look! There’s Al Gore and Sheryl Crow!—
She’s wiping her @$$ with him...
I'm way late to the party, but your very insightful post makes me ask out loud if all republicans are asking if all democrats are looking at maps WRT Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan?!
you meant to say jealous that he doesn’t have those things...
If I were running this show, I announce to the world that the Gitmo Detainee Facility was closing. I’d then move the prisoners to a troop ship as a temporary prison as if we were taking them somewhere; the press could then photo the closing; and afterwards, I’d move the cattle all back to their cells at Gitmo and make it a secret prison.
Nothing to see here, move along. Come on people! What are you staring at?
“was apprehended as he tried to enter Iraq from Iran “
war mongering neo-con nazi trash picking on the peaceloving nation of Iran.
“Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, told The Times that catching Abd al-Hadi was important but that it did not spell the end of al-Qaeda”
True. The end of al-Qaeda is spelled the end of Al-Qaeda.
“The Government’s recently adopted position in favour of closing Guantanamo Bay is likely to act as a bar on agents travelling there.”
The British would much rather invite him to speak at the Royal mosque in London, where he will be given slushies. He will also be given a nice backback and CD’s since he seems to have left his Iranian parting gifts at the interrogation center.
Thanks! Good job!
Congressional Democrats belong at Gitmo, as prisoners.
Iranian Shiite terrorists would never work with secular Iraqi Sunni terrorists... would they?
Nah the DemonRats have assured us they never would. They wouldn't lie to us, would they?
Too good for him. For him, a little chum in the water of Caribbean Sea, or maybe the Florida straight so that he could see America during the chopper ride, and then plunk him down in the middle of it, see if he can swim faster than the sharks.
What is also noteworthy is al-Iraqi's background in Saddam Hussein's Army (pointed out to this site by Laurie Mylroie). During his military service over a decade ago, al-Iraqi worked his way up to the rank of Major before moving to Afghanistan to fight "jihad" against the occupying Soviet Union. This is not to assert that al-Iraqi maintained contact with Iraqi officials over the past decade (though many other Intelligence and Military officers from Saddam Hussein's regime, who were later found to be assisting al Qaeda, reportedly did) but his knowledge of the country and contacts within Iraq certainly played a role in al-Iraqi being Osama bin Laden's personal choice to monitor al Qaeda's operations in Iraq. al-Iraqi's military background likely was of great use in the terrorist training camp(s) he commanded in Afghanistan. Those camps were destroyed by U.S. forces in late 2001 around the same time that al-Iraqi's funds were beingfrozen by the United Nations.
The former Iraqi Major's network may now stretch into Europe, where captured al-Qaeda affiliates have admitted meeting with al-Iraqi and other top al-Qaeda leaders. According to Pakistani officials, Zeeshan Siddique, arrested for preparing terrorist attacks (suicide bombing) and membership to al-Qaeda, told his interrogators that Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi was among the remaining al-Qaeda leadership still provoking attacks with whom he had met while traveling the Afghanistan/Pakistan borderland.
Great reporting....
and yours is even worse.... though yeah it was a worldwide sweep of al qaeda accounts... I can think of three of these off the top of my head... funny all from different countries...doesn’t help toooooooo much does it......
According to the press, all the “masterminds” seem to have been with al-Qaeda. Yet they are being taken down on a regular basis. I can’t remember any press account calling Bush a mastermind of resistence, or Blair a mastermind of purpose, or Cheney a mastermind of military initiatives. For the press, only the murderers are “masterminds.”
Not to mention the race hate speech laws in the UK that protect their recruiters but muzzle anyone who would speak out against the carpet-riders.
Disarmed and muzzled. No wonder they need cameras everywhere.
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