Breaking: Foxnews Rita Cosby sources of new threats.

Thanks both of you. I didn't recognize the name (sorry to sound terrible, but all those hyphenated middle eastern names all sound the same to me!). But yes, i'm familiar with the 'good' doctor...It would make sense that the #2guy/doctor would know for sure when bin laden had kicked the bucket and start speaking for him. Thanks both of you for the clarification.

You are welcome!

Ditto. This calls for a quote from my favorite Military Commentator. COL DAVID HUNT!!!

John Kasich:
So Col Hunt. What would you do if you are in the same room with Saddam and he puts his hands up and says 'I surrender' 'I give up'..?"

Col Hunt:
"I put two shots in his head and two in his heart. See ya later. Have a nice day."

**Breaks my heart!! I think we should provide the Gitmo goons the same treatment Al Zawahiri provided our citizens on Sept. 11, 2003. **....

2003?

Whats up with that?

My sources tell me Rita Cosby is a dillusional blowhard with a very annoying voice and a face for radio.

LOL!

You nailed it.

Many criminal enterprises are run from jails and prisons.

James Trafficant is running for President from jail. He's already raised $10,000 dollars. He was framed though.

It should have been 2001, right, that's all.

I caught that.

I think we should provide the Gitmo goons the same treatment Al Zawahiri provided our citizens on Sept. 11, 2003.

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Actually she said the info came via Reuters, I hear her announce the breaking news, but I haven't seen anything on the web at Reuters or elsewhere.

But it's a Reuters breaking news, not just some unconfirmed sources.

**Those old 8 tracks don't edit as well as they used to.**

Yeah, it must be pretty hard to stay in the now when your hovering in a cave.

Why should any terrorist, or terrorist wannabe have access to OUR air waves, TV, radio or print NEWS to incite violence against America?

As for our treatment of these monsters, the Red Cross and Amnesty Int'l also appear to care more about them than our brave men and women risking their lives to keep the world safer for even journalists.

July 29, 2003:

A new voice is going to be heard here at Chief Wiggles blog on occasion. This new voice is another soldier serving with the Chief. http://chiefwiggles.blogspot.com/

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Part of my job as an intelligence analyst is to maintain a comprehensive understanding of the region and situation we are responsible for. This includes studying and finding trends in not only the classified reports and documents which pass through, but also keeping a finger on the pulse of how the world at large understands, and thus, is likely to respond to, that same region and situation. Over the course of a few weeks, the military forces led by the United States swept away the political authority and the vast majority of the armed might of the Republic of Iraq. Nonetheless, for some it is the errant belief in the resurrection of a destroyed government, or the misunderstanding of what the Coalition is working to accomplish in Iraq that allows for the continued violence. It is the belief of those individuals, however incorrect, that prompts their actions.

While, one hopes, not quite so prone to the use of deadly force to express their opinions, the readers of articles such as a particularly maliciously crafted example of verbal detritus from the London Times which I came across in the course of my research could nonetheless find themselves with a wholly incorrect impression of the nature of conditions for prisoners at holding facilities such as ours.

The only words for the journalist's work are willful deception, misrepresentation of information, and deliberate intellectual sabotage.

And here shifts this essay. His account of living conditions for prisoners was almost laughable. He attempted to paint a picture of misery and abuse through his description. You know what? He may have been right . . . but there are several hundred thousand Americans and allied soldiers living in the same conditions or worse that he cares absolutely nothing about. Spoken of are prisoners who are held in tents with temperatures reaching "up to 122 degrees" with no relief. There's a reason why it's 122 degrees inside the tent, and that's because the outside ambient temperature is 131, and there are precisely the same temperatures in my tent, and every soldier's tent in this country. I know well what it is to wake up in the morning lying in a pool of sweat that the taut material of my cot cannot absorb. There are soldiers even now who don't have tents to provide shade, who are rationed two MREs a day, who preciously horde their allotment of water, trying to figure out how keep enough water in their bodies when anything they drink immediately sweats out. For well over two months at the camp here, latrines consisted of ditches with wooden planks and tubes half-buried in the sand for urinals.

There is much discussion right now about the beatings of prisoners which took place at a holding facility, but it should be noted that the event stands out as it does because of the very fact of its aberration from the norm. The prisoners do not always have the red-carpet treatment, and it's a trifle difficult to summon the will-power to fetch a rapist his slippers and pipe in the evening, but every day soldiers put themselves in danger to prevent prisoners from beating or killing each other, as the type of prisoner we hold has shifted from the early days of EPWs who would endlessly thank us and us give praise for overthrowing "the monster," to the new breed who are primarily street criminals with a smattering of Fedayeen and other choice groups. American soldiers lose their temper when the prisoners' water supply is not replenished fast enough. The reason anyone knows about the inexcusable behavior of those few MPs is because another unit of their fellow soldiers called them out on it, in effect, policing themselves. There is no other army in the world which goes to such great lengths as we to provide humane treatment to those we were prepared to unflinchingly slay in the midst of combat, and to those who believe our very compassion is one of our failing weaknesses.

One of the interrogators here, a tall, well-muscled young soldier with a square jaw and a strong yet tempered and considering voice, told me of a conversation he had with one of our allied interrogators. This compatriot of ours commented to my friend, "You Americans are strange, the way [these prisoners] seem to matter. What are they? They're animals."

We are deployed around the world, fighting to give others the same opportunities that we ourselves have been granted. Sometimes other nations agree with our cause, other times they do not, but alone or with other like-minded souls, we fight our consciences. No one may excuse certain things our country has been responsible for, but we invariably self-correct the problem and drive on, a stronger and wiser country for it. We confront our demons, no matter how difficult or shameful. Several months ago some of our soldiers abused their power, and several months ago, other soldiers put an end to it. This is the way of our people.

The article I alluded to went on to say that prisoners are denied mail and contact with their families. Mail is the responsibility of the Red Cross, but no one is going to publicly call the Red Cross to task for their failings when it's far simpler and more acceptable to pin the blame on us occupying military imperialists. Heaven forbid the author employ a bit of journalistic integrity and do the slightest bit of research necessary ("Hey, soldier, who delivers the prisoners' mail?") to determine culpability. I can speak authoritatively of the way I have seen officers curse in frustration at occasional regional lock-downs which prevent family visitation on any of the three days per week prisoners may see their families. I cannot understand how one's choice of three days per week, better than many American prisoners are allowed in our own prisons back home, translates for journalists into prisoners being denied family visitation. Yes, there are certain prisoners who cannot have visitors—murderers and rapists for example. I can speak of the packages of food and hygiene items I helped Chief Wiggles give to prisoners from their families, eerily reminiscent of the very packages I receive from my own family. We constantly receive requests for information as to whether one prisoner or another is at our camp, so we can let his family can know he's safe and tell them where to find him. I see the way the Chief fights to win the release of prisoners who have not committed crimes and have already contributed their knowledge to the Coalition.

Everything I have witnessed and know to be true is the antithesis of the scenario painted by the author of the article in question and many other articles in newspapers around the world, including those at home in the United States. It's very much in vogue to identify and decry mistreatment of prisoners, and there are in fact many systems which could be greatly improved. But by and large, it is a far better thing to be captured by the United States of America than most other countries, perhaps any, and we are continually working to improve our capacity for humane treatment.

It would be wonderful if the Red Cross were as concerned with my brothers and sisters-in-arms who hope they can stretch their water until the next shipment comes through as they are with the prisoners who see their families weekly (any one visit of which is more than we soldiers have seen our own families), who have us to fight for them and protect them, who are guaranteed water and food, who have tents to live in and showers. During the first months of this camp's operation, soldiers would sometimes enter the prison compound to bathe with the EPWs because they had facilities before we did.

We have sacrificed to allow the prisoners to live in some cases even better than ourselves, and yet one reads almost daily these fraudulent, slanderous, malignant claims of abuse and malicious twisting of the facts.

Where is the Red Cross, ensuring that we can see our wives and husbands at all, much less weekly? Thousands of soldiers have spent the war and period thereafter without any means to contact their loved ones, relying solely on a mail system which may or may not deliver letters within two months of their mailing date, although this has improved steadily and the last letter I received made it to me in seven days. At least the Army gets the mail to its soldiers eventually, whereas the Red Cross more often than not fails to transmit the correspondence between prisoners and their families at all. Until I and those with me can see our wives and husbands again, we'll keep fighting to protect the ability of the prisoners here to see their own.

I would recommend that the journalists who so perversely attempt to conceal and eradicate the knowledge of the good we have done examine their purposes for doing so, and weigh once again the awesome responsibility they have in crafting perceived reality for millions. Reality is often not what we wish it to be, and frequently contains elements we wish it did not, but where is the value in embracing a world of falsehood, however we prefer the lie? Now that the sword has done its job, it is time for the pen to convey, in brilliant ink unspoiled by the tainting hues of ignorance or malice, the ongoing work in its most objective truth, so that the deeds of history, good and ill, may be more fully judged, and the world we and our children shape be founded on pillars of truth.

"Ayman Al Zawahiri is Bin Laden's But Buddy. He's never left old Binny Boys side because he is his "doctor" He treated bin laden's kidney problems."

AB FAB, But is there a pattern emerging w/ Rita of ever more grandiose sourcing indicative Dementia Praecox eeer PraeFox?

Rita Cosby is reporting that Aiman Al Zawahiri has threatened the US.

Al Zawahiri, Al Qaeda, Al Sharpton, whassa difference?

**Al Zawahiri, Al Qaeda, Al Sharpton, whassa difference?**

Are you forgetting one infamous Al. Hint, hint....he was supposed to be in a great, big white house.

I saw Rita program before I took road trip to market

RACKKK ITTT

RITA GIRLFRIEND GET OFF F*** KOBE Case I getting tired of it I live in center Los Angeles everybody is badmouth suppose rape victim

BFD. BTW, who's Rita Crosby anyway?

RACKK COL Hunt

YEAH BABYYYYYY