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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We should listen to the guy and act on his advice. He knows what he’s talking about.
I like the way this jasper talks.
Sharp guy. I suppose the left will have him arrested.
“There’s no way to cure them, they have to be killed.”
Finally, a Shiekh I can agree with.
Never heard of him before this but I already like him a lot.
IMO, let the tribal leaders deal with “their” enemies in a manner that the fanatics understand. I’m told that during the Vietnam War, the Koreans (ROKs) were feared by the Viet Cong because they knew how they would be dealt with. Let the fanatical Islamic slime be dealt with accordingly.
ping
Send in Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid; they have all the Liberal answers.
A lot of soldier’s lives would have been saved if we had this kind of common sense.
No Media
No Prisoners
Then if that happened, would history judge us as no different to Sadaam? Are soldier’s lives a required price to pay for our morality? I don’t have the answers.
“I like this guy already.”
So this would be a good liberal. Apparently, liberal is Iraqi for conservative.
“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.”
Works for me.
"There's no way to cure them, they have to be killed."
Apparently Sheikh Hamid al-Hais hasn't read our 387 page Rule Of Engagement Manual, Third Edition, by Emily Post and Miss Manners.
Or had a run in with the 698,586,32110 JAG Lawyers who follow the Combat Arms Units around like flies on poop and who will indict our servicemen for murder faster than you can say Allah Akbar!
Not to mention if we killed the maggots that would seriously upset John McInsane and his butt buddy Lindsey Graham and they'd be compelled to pass some more Terrorist Protection Laws.
"Kill Them", ha! If it was only that easy.
(Sheesh, he must think we're at war or something?!?!?) /s
Iraq would be a very different place from day one if we followed his advice or at least was willing to work with hardnosed secular Sunnis who know how to get the job done.
President Bush said up front that it would be an Iraqi democracy, not an American democracy.
I have an idea that his version of liberal would place him somewhat to the right of most of us...
Because, they are ‘afraid’ of what the NY Times will say.
I am not kidding.
I believe that if you killed the terrorist, his wife kids dog, mother father brother and especially his religious leader it then would stop all this b.s.
very quickly.
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