I may (will!) get flamed, but I don't see the issue here. Of course these videos are "inspirational" to potential Al Quaida members!! That's why they're disgusting to US!!!
I think someone was trying to deliberately misunderstand.
Please take this from someone who wants Katie to go to CBS ASAP!!!
Michael Ware - embedded with Iraqi insurgents
Wednesday, 7 July 2004
Australian journalist Michael Ware is Time magazine's correspondent in Iraq.
Mr Ware has embedded himself with Iraqi insurgents and spoke to Richard Glover on the phone from Iraq to talk about what his experience and what he has learnt.
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November 24, 2004
Michael Ware is Super-Shrill
Time's Baghdad bureau chief is on my local NPR (WNYC) right now and he's taking some serious swings:
On the elections: "You can set any Disneyland date you want. It will look like an election, it will sound like an election, but it won't be anything other than a sham."
Other broadsides:
"Honestly, I see day by day as we add to the ranks of the insurgency. I've seen civilians atomized before my eyes by the military. That's not meant to be a criticism of the individual soldiers or the military...."
Asked whether there are going to be other Fallujah like situations, he said, "Absolutely. Fallujah was a spectacular act of defiance for the insurgents. But there will be similar acts here, there, everywhere. This doesn't feel like victory for me."
"We are giving the birth to the next generation of jihadists. 9/11 was a pandora's box. Bin Laden was then hoping for a platform to propel the cause...and we gave it to him."
"Insurgents used to say to me, 'I'm fighting to get the U.S. out of Iraq--Iraq for Iraqis.' Now they say, 'I'm fighting for Islam.' We've created the next Bin Laden, Zarqawi. He was a marginal figure before the war, and now, he's actually competing with him for primacy."
I'll post more when WNYC posts the transcript. (Also note, my transcription is rough; I'm just typing as I'm listening.)
November 24, 2004 at 12:45 PM | Permalink
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