they are like sharks teeth... pull one, and another pops up to take its place.
Posted on 05/29/2006 11:32:08 AM PDT by jmc1969
A senior aide of Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was captured in Baghdad Sunday evening.
Qasim Al-Aani, one of the most wanted people in Iraq, was arrested with two other insurgents, Defense Ministry spokesman Kassim Al-Mosawi told reporters.
Chief of the 3rd Brigades in the Iraqi Army Jawad Roomi Al-Daini told KUNA Al-Aani is a leader of an insurgent group and is behind many attacks in several Iraqi districts.
He said Al-Aani was involved in the assassination of the son of Chief Justice of Iraqi Supreme Court, Judge Madhat Al-Mahmoud, pointing out that the killer's brother, who is a member in the terrorist group, was also arrested.
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they are like sharks teeth... pull one, and another pops up to take its place.
Yep. The capture of these slugs will lead to the death/capture of similar slugs.
That is what we are up against.
This was largely true (for the past 3 years)...however al-Qeada in Iraq (Zarqawi) has been decimated over the past 12 months now - There is no longer any systematic plan coming out of Zarqawi and his element....they are merely trying to cause death and destruction with no real purpose.
More and more Iraqi units are coming online each week and success is rampant.
They clearly haven't had the organizational ability they had 12 months ago.
The only massive threats to Iraq at this point is Iran and the US public losing its will.
Because of the political situation in the US the IED will be the insurgency's last method to win the war.
Thanks for the ping! Memorial Day good news!
Death/Prisioner Promotions are coming fast and furious in Z's cirecle of soldiers with a few more on the way soon as I see it.
The American public is the only thing that can help reverse the amazing success we have had in this WOT / Iraq -
Which is why everyone of us should make sure we are doing all we can to inform fellow friends, co-wokers and family of our continued successes along with why staying the course is the only honest path in this just cause.
Iran is not a threat to Iraq as long as the American public is well informed on our success along with understanding why we must stay in this fight.
Zarqawi has aids?
I think everyone should have aides. (a little South Park humor for the uninitiated)
Is he on any of your lists? I'm coming up empty in my search.
Oh Gee! That must be why he's running scared, demoralized, and desparate...
Stop being a sucker for the propaganda of our enemies.
Amen.
I have been hearing the exact same statements just like the one you just made since early 2004.
Irrational optimism on Iraq IMHO has been the biggest thing that has discredited the administration and many pro-war supporters not the failure to find WMDs or anything else.
When I heard Cheney say the insurgency was in its last throws I cringed.
You want a more reality based look of what is going on behind the scenes there are a number of good articles.
http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1189231,00.html
The message should be that there are major problems in Iraq (al-Qaeda being one of many) and that they will take a long time to solve. That is something the American public can buy and is a reality based message.
After Ramadi, Baghdad, and Basra are cleaned out we will be sitting pretty.
In said letter the writer complains of have only 100 Al Qaeda members in all of Baghdad a city of 5 MILLION....yes that many can cause mischief....we are seeing their handy work on the news today.....so lets stop with the doom and gloom.
This guy's got more aides than Bill Clinton has girlfriends!
And please stop citing TIME as a source.
"The only massive threats to Iraq at this point is the US public losing its will."
You mean, "The US public's will being mainpulated to lose by the MSM."
As they did with Vietnam. Interesting how it changed in 30 yrs. The WWII media was so gung-ho.
al-Qaeda in Iraq manages to make the news with suicide attacks and manages to increase Shia/Sunni tensions with attacks. But, in military terms they are a tiny threat compared to the Saddamists and Iran and the Iranian militias.
The biggest problem with the Iraq campaign when it comes to the American public is PR. The administation has stopped some time ago making its biggest mistake. The battle is going to be long and hard and could take another two or three years to complete. But, the conflict was being sold PR wise as being easy for the year before the war and it was being sold as being over except for some dead enders for over a year we went in..
When expectactions set up by officals didn't meet reality for the public that was when they really started losing faith in the effort and the government.
It is far better to tell people to expect the worst and if you achieve more then that you will be beating expecations.
The only time I feel they did a great job with the expecations game was the first Iraqi election. They set the media and public up to expect very little and they were rewarded politically for several months when the expectations were surpassed.
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