Posted on 05/26/2004 11:18:24 AM PDT by Pokey78
BAGHDAD, May 26 (Xinhuanet) -- About 100 Shiite militiamen were killed in overnight clashes in Baghdad and the holy city of Najaf, a senior US military official said Wednesday.
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told a news conference that a "very large number" of militiamen were killed in 21 engagements in Baghdad's Sadr City and five engagements in Najaf.
He put the total number killed at less than 100, with about 30 people killed in the Baghdad's Sadr neighborhood, which is a stronghold of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi militia.
Sadr, who has led a six-week-long insurgency against the US-led occupation, is holed up in Najaf.
Dozens of people have been killed in violent clashes between theMahdi militia and the coalition forces.
Sadr is wanted to answer for charges in relation to a suspected murder of a rival cleric last year. Enditem
Hey..it's NEW math....(G)
"Kill them all ... nits make lice.
(COL Chivington, Sand Creek)"
"Parole them all to Hell, pups grow up to be hounds."
(William 'Bloody Bill' Anderson, Centralia MO,1864..)
Or, they're gonna have to settle for "virgins" like Rosie O'Donnell! Ha! (someone else got me on Rosie gags today)
If we start a propoganda compaign with Rosie's pic on it, and the slogan, "72 virgins - JUST LIKE HER", how fast would they run from Islam THEN?
21 engagements, 100 KIA/WIA, and from our media we hear...nothing. Well not nothing, exactly, all Abu Ghraib all the time. And they wonder why they're losing ratings to websites...
Wanted. 7,200 virgins. No waiting.
Thanks for the quote .. I've just added it to my profile page.
We have been knocking them out to the tune of 20 to 30 a day for almost a month.
They have their faith in allah, kind of like believing "trust me" from a used car salesman.
It's a start!
My favorite military quote:
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
(General George Patton Jr)
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Coalition says "very large number" of militiamen killed in Iraq clashes
Damned that's good!!!!
I'd think Rosie would count for two or three normal sized virgins.
You know that those "virgins" are called Houris...where we get our word whore from, I believe. A real hedonistic relgion if you ask me.
"Sadr's militia has nothing to do with the 18K worldwide AQ figure. He had at best 6000, most of those peeled off when it became clear that US troops could kill them at will - he is (was) down to 1000 or so, less and less every day. The Sadr problem will be wrapped up soon - the only question is how the media (and some freepers actually) will spin this into a defeat for the US."
It's even better than that. This assumes that if you're not killed, you're in perfect fighting condition. How many have been wounded severely enough to prevent them from being able to fight? How many others have freaked out and deserted (they're not robots any more than we are)? Probably a good rule of thumb is "times two wounded" as Captain Miller says in Saving Private Ryan. 100 dead, 200 wounded, of these wounded, probably half won't fight again. 200 out of action. Plus maybe a handful of deserters.
As for Al Qaeda, this is not just a question of math. We don't have to kill/capture all 18,000 to render them ineffective. We probably don't even have to kill a third. We've been targeting the leadership from the get-go. This is how Rudy G handled the Italian mob in the 80's -- cut the heads off the families and the young Turks that replace them will be too stupid and/or impulsive to run the families effectively. (Of course, now the Russian mob has picked up the slack, but that's another story.)
Anyway, 3,000 AQ's have been killed or captured, a pretty high percentage of these in leadership positions. That more than likely has more to do with no US attacks since 9/11 than any other single factor. 18,000 men is a division, a formidable fighting force. But if all 18,000 are privates? Fuhget aboud it...
Pray for W and Our Brave Troops
It will never happen, but I'd love to see an American-backed TV station over there devote a program of just reading off the names and showing pictures of these dead Jihadis one after another after another . . . ending with a statement like the Russians broadcast to the Germans at Stalingrad - "every second a German (Jehadi) dies in Stalingrad (Baghdad/Najaf)". Then the screen would go blank and nothing would be heard but a ticking sound - one every second.
Nothing like having some advance notice you know.
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