Thomas Joscelyn has the latest on the newly refreshed search for Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the franchisee for Al Qaeda in Iraq. Could it have anything to do with this previous story? The Jordanian press is reporting:
"The Americans and the British set up electronic listening bases in areas located south of the capital, Baghdad; namely, Al-Latifiyah, Al-Yusufiyah, Jurf al-Sakhr, Al-Mahmudiyah, Al-Bu'aythah, and Hawr Rajab, where Al-Zarqawi is believed to have been moving about in the past weeks."The intelligence information available to the Interior Ministry's Staff Major General Husayn Ali Kamal (under secretary of the Iraqi Interior Ministry for intelligence affairs) indicates that security officials hope for surrounding the areas where Al-Zarqawi could be located in order to conduct, later on, house-to-house and street-to-street searches. This in turn could lead to his quick arrest.High-level quarters at the Iraqi Defense Ministry said that the Americans are waiting for Al-Zarqawi to phone his colleagues, even by using a code, in order to identify his exact location and subsequently act to either arrest or kill him.
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To the chagrin of the msm and the dems, al quaida is losing everwhere. It is clear that the terrorists are working harder to hide and stay alive than they are in conducting operations. I'm so pleased for the Iraqis, who probably see more light at the end of their horror-filled tunnel than our own disloyal opposition. It is so sad to see the lunatic Iranian leaders using the exact language as the lefties to attempt to thwart the war on terrorism.
Sooner or later, these vermin will either be caught or killed. Granted it may not soon enough to suit us, but may I remind all the lefties that are bound to come whining about "where is Usama," the allies never did catch all of the Nazi War Criminals, did they? Still, they were largely reduced to ineffective local nobodies until they either were caught or died of old age.
Either way, they were not able to slaughter as they did during Hitlers reign and likewise, Zarqawi and his minions and even Usama will one day either be dead (provided Usama isn't already) or reduced to hiding the rest of his miserable life.
For those of you either directly or indirectly supporting Al Qaeda, you are on the wrong side ---- AGAIN!
Bear, You are right about al qaeda losing ground. But they do still have one American (if you can call them that) advocate in their corner: The AlQaeda Civil Liberties Union. This is the same outfit that is advocating for the gangs of idiots that are protesting at the funerals of the soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. With friends like the ACLU, alQaeda does not need enemies.
The picture of "Zarqawi" looks like it could be any typical "College Professor on any USA College Campus" TODAY. I wouldn't dought that WARD CHURCILL and ilk Know this Face.
Sober up, then post. Or possibly buy a dictionary.
hey, scottiebill, you're right. There are many anti-American groups, but when we are hit again, they will crawl back under their rocks, where they belong.
Victoria, the reason that the lefties are adding nothing to this post is because they can't change this subject. If they came out and rooted for the terrorists (denouncing the "unconstitutional" tactics of the Iraqi gov't., for instance) they would look even more stupid and anti-American than usual. Their strategy can only be to remain deafeningly SILENT! Sheesh.
bear,
I agree the demochickens tend to ignore what they cannot score points with. At least if they did come out and rooted for the terrorists they at they would be honest.
Instead they find ways to stab in the back those who seek to do battle with the terrorists.
kodiak, I bow to you.
What is it that you all want? Everyone to stroke your egos? To make you feel better about the positions you have taken?
As you have all labeled me a "liberal," my opinion is this - I think the work being done to root out Al Queda and eliminate it is fantastic, and hope that it only gets better and more successful.
But why bother stating it to here. It means nothing to you. And when we "liberals" do agree with any of you here, or show appreciation for the good work our government is doing, you tell us that only you "Bushista" conservatives are the ones that get to say so, because only you are American enough to really appreciate anything, and thus we don't.
And yes, while there has been good success, there is always a need to improve. You don't improve sitting around all day patting yourself on the back. You look for ways to improve, which means finding the faults, calling them out, and fixing them.
So go ahead, sit around all day telling yourselves how American you are because you agree with this or that. I'm not going to do it for you.
If you listen only to the sound bites of the right-wing radio talk shows, you may be able to delude yourself into the belief that we are winning a war in Iraq. Many other analysts, however, suggest that Iraq is fast sinking toward a civil war, in which whatever side the Americans tend to support will have the added liability of the support of the occuppying army.
Further, George Bush seems determined to provoke a war, perhaps a nuclear war this time, with Iran, at the very time that our own military reports that we are dangerously overextended because of our commitments in Iraq.
A singer I listened to recently wrote in 1969:
"We were born in a revolution,
and we died in a wasted war.
It's gone that way before."
suomynona,
I will always welcome a liberal who is on board in dealing with terrorists before they can strike again.
Still more administration incompetence:
SOME 200,000 guns the US sent to Iraqi security forces may have been smuggled to terrorists, it was feared yesterday (May 9, 2006).
The 99-ton cache of AK47s was to have been secretly flown out from a US base in Bosnia. But the four planeloads of arms have vanished.
Orders for the deal to go ahead were given by the US Department of Defense. But the work was contracted out via a complex web of private arms traders.
UK Mirror
We should be able to find Zarqawi. Just follow the guns.
WSD - If you listen only to the sound bites of the right-wing radio talk shows, you may be able to delude yourself into the belief that we are winning a war in Iraq. Many other analysts, however, suggest that Iraq is fast sinking toward a civil war, in which whatever side the Americans tend to support will have the added liability of the support of the occuppying army.
David, you couldn’t be any further wrong. It isn’t only radio talk show hosts claiming we are winning but most of the returning troops who are actually “boots on the ground.” By the same token as to what you say, if you listen only to sound bites from left-wing anti-war activists and talk shows you might delude yourself that we are losing the War on Terror.
Further, George Bush seems determined to provoke a war, perhaps a nuclear war this time, with Iran, at the very time that our own military reports that we are dangerously overextended because of our commitments in Iraq.
Sorry, but I see the bulk of saber rattling coming from Irans President, Ahmanutjob. It is he stating Israel needs eliminated from the planet and that will unleash untold terror on the West if he is attacked.
A singer I listened to recently wrote in 1969:
"We were born in a revolution,
and we died in a wasted war.
It's gone that way before."
Again, nostalgic 1960’s anti-war songs, even though we enjoyed them as well, did not accurately represent what was going on. In fact, if not for the anti-war left, there is a very strong possibility that General Vo Nguyen Giap would have negotiated a surrender after his forces were decimated in his ill-fated Tet of 68 offensive.
It was the anti-war left that gave him America’s Achilles heel to keep fighting as he did seeing that America would tire of it all and never actually fight it as we should have. The end result was millions enslaved under communism and untold more, hundreds of thousands, at least, murdered and dead from escaping in rickety boats.
That is the legacy that the anti-war left would put off on Iraq and Afghanistan today. I have no doubt the deaths would be even more now and eventually appear on our shores once again.
If the anti-war left had been allowed to be as loud as they are today Europe just might still be goose-stepping under Nazism.
Take a close look at the enemy, even if he is unseen, and realize this isn’t an enemy that can be negotiated away or appeased. This is a fight to stop a very radical view of Islam from dominating the world.
Fizzi - Still more administration incompetence:
I never realized Bush was now in charge of UPS.
Hey fizzi, how about that rapid response from the previous wonderful administration to the massacre in Rwanda? Great, huh?
Nice diversion try Lew. But this was no UPS operaton but DOD. The arms were being transported from a US base. Another Rumsfeld fiasco. Bush keeps Rumsfeld on. Therefore, administration incompetence. Get it? Of course in this administration the buck stops somewhere else.
Add these guns to the massive amounts of ordinance we left unsecured going into Iraq because we didn’t have the man power to secure it, and you have a pretty well armed insurgency and/or as yet to be identified terrorists group.Maybe the AK-47's are the same room with the missing $9 BILLION of U.S. taxpayer money still "unaccounted for" in Iraq, thanks to Bush's boy Paul Bremer. Since the Republicans are in power we no for certain there will be no investigations.
Fizziwigg, not only was it incompetence, but corruption. What a surprise!
Aerocom was to transport the arms and was one of many used by infamous arms dealer and former KGB agent Victor Bout. Bout has a long history of getting arms to embargoed areas, including Angola, Rwanda, Congo, and Liberia. Most notably, Bout is suspected of supplying arms to all sides in pre-invasion Afghanistan: the Northern Alliance, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. Why would the US trust a major arms shipment to a company connected to a man like Bout? The answer is Halliburton.
Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney’s old firm, was involved in a similar deal back in 2004. Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR) handled arms shipments to Iraq, and subcontracted through an air freight company called Falcon. Falcon subcontracted to a Bout-connected company called Air Bas, laundering the profits through banks in the United Arab Emirates. As a result, the US military wound up funneling millions to Bout, even as the US was working to shut down his international arms network.
The contract to ship the 200,000 assault rifles to Iraq was the responsibility of Halliburton subsidiary KBR. Once again, the shipment wound up being subcontracted to a Bout-connected company, Aerocom.
Fizzi, what a pitiful life it must be for a lefty today. Not only do you apparently not have a sense of humor (the UPS joke, son) but you run around beliving the sky is falling, the sky is falling. You make Chicken Little proud.
As for your claim, oh puhlleeaaze. The Mirror UK? Amnesty International? Even you should know better.
First off, the headline you are panicking over is a question. Notice the initial words, “HAVE THEY!!” It’s known as poisoning the well. Ask a leading queswtion to convince gullible lefties the article is factual. Of course you can’t wait to blame Rummy, lefties have been salivating over any and everything they can drum up and fail each time.
As for the article, please read it sometime. If 200,000 AK-47s have indeed come up missing chances are they went to Africa, not Al Qaeda. Seems the left has been crying all along Al Qaeda has more weapons than they need. African tribes would want the weapons much more than Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda isn’t standing and shooting, last I heard. They would rather have explosives and artillery shells.
“But air traffic controllers in Baghdad have no record of the flights, which supposedly took off between July 2004 and July 2005. A coalition forces spokesman confirmed they had not received "any weapons from Bosnia" and added they were "not aware of any purchases for Iraq from Bosnia".
Better luck next time.
Lew is pretty nonchalant that 200,000 weapons purchased by the US are missing. Call me picky, but I don't think we got our money's worth. If they went to terrorists that is only salt in the wound.
Threlfeld is pretty upset over a "report" appearing in a British Tabloid similar to our own National Enquirer.
Choose your battles better, son. There is a reason all of the drive-by leftstream media that dislikes Bush so much are not running with this.
Just ask Rumsfeld or Bush about it at the next news conference. We should receive a full, complete and satisfactory answer.
LOL, ya'll just keep looking to the equivalent of our National Enquirer and Globe for news reports.
I'll have your tin hats ready soon, just ask for one.
Interesting testimony today from Gen. Michael V. Hayden, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence regarding lack of Iraq/al-Qaeda link.
SEN..LEVIN: Secretary of Defense for Policy, Mr. Feith, established an intelligence analysis, so within his policy office at the Defense Department. While the intelligence community was consistently dubious about links between Iraq and al Qaeda, Mr. Feith produced an alternative analysis asserting that there was a strong connection. Were you comfortable with Mr. Feith’s office approach to intelligence analysis?
GEN. HAYDEN: No, sir, I wasn’t. I wasn’t aware of a lot of the activity going on, you know, when it was contemporaneous with running up to the war. No, sir, I wasn’t comfortable.
I admire this guy's honesty.
Loyalingrate, Since you so admire hayden's honesty, perhaps you could contact Sen. Ron Wyden and impress upon him your admiration?
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