Posted on 05/15/2007 11:55:04 AM PDT by ASC2006
The key to saving Iraq from the scourge of Al-Qaeda is to subject captured fighters to the swift and deadly rule of tribal justice, according to the leader of a powerful new armed movement.
Sheikh Hamid al-Hais leads the Anbar Salvation Council, the paramilitary wing of a coalition of Sunni tribes from Iraq's western desert, and he has a simple message for his new American allies in his battle with the insurgents.
"I always tell the Americans 'Why detain the enemy? Leave him to me, don't detain him,'" he chuckled during an interview with AFP in a Baghdad hotel.
Murderers must be killed under tribal law and unless we use this force against terrorism, terrorism will continue to rise."
The Salvation Council is part of a movement called the Anbar Awakening run by Sheikh Abdulsattar Abu Risha, whose alliance of tribal leaders united against the threat posed to Anbar province by Al-Qaeda's militants.
"The Americans don't know the terrorists like we do. A very dangerous terrorist was freed by the Americans and our police captured him," he said.
"We asked him during the investigation, 'Why did the Americans release you, you are very dangerous?' He said, 'I told them just two lies and they believed me and they set me free'," Hais recounted.
"There's no way to cure them, they have to be killed."
"Put 10 officers from Anbar on one side and 10 from other regions of Iraq on the other and you will see that they are the fiercest, because of the desert environment in which they have lived," he said.
"We'll make Ramadi the Dubai of Iraq," he said, a twinkle in his eye. "I believe in development. I am very liberal, extremely liberal.
"I wanted to forbid the girls from wearing headscarves in Anbar University.
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worth a later read
Works for me!
It hurts if an Iraqi tribal leader makes more sense than our military and civilian leadership. Let ‘em loose.
I like this guy already.
Well, somebody finally gets it.
I bet a threat to turn them over would be enough to get some of them to tell al they know. The terrorists know our hands are tied but the Iraqi’s aren’t.
The key might be, bring out the troops and nuke the entire region of the world.
“There’s no way to cure them, they have to be killed.”
If we had employed this philosohpy from the beginning we would have far fewer problems in Iraq. Too bad US politicians are too stupid and weak to recognize that the utter savagery that is our enemy can’t be ‘prosecuted in Iraqi courts’. They have to be killed, without exception.
Kill all the terrorist we find, and bury them with a dead pig.
I'm inclined to believe him.
The key is fighting a real war, which we haven’t been doing.
“Sheikh Suleiman had strong criticisms for the U.S. military in the Anbar governorate. “In the past we used to capture Al-Qaeda militants and hand them over to Americans, but within two weeks we would see them free again,” he said. “Now, we deal with those we capture.”
http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2726/Dulaim_Chief_Al-Qaeda_is_a_Cancer_in_Iraq
Being liberal as a Arab Muslim means being not an islamo whack job... which is good.
You know liberal used to be a good thing. It’s still a positive word. The Communists hijacked it along with “progressive”.
“There’s no way to cure them, they have to be killed.”
Makes sense to me. He seems to know what he is talking about.
“I always tell the Americans ‘Why detain the enemy? Leave him to me, don’t detain him,’” he chuckled during an interview with AFP in a Baghdad hotel”
Sounds like a plan that would work.
“There’s no way to cure them, they have to be killed.”
I’d like to have a drink with this guy.
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