you forgot one of the most important stories!
yOU kNOUU///
About houu the reporting from earock is biased, and all!/?
Anyuuay, here's a link regarding the sectarian fauxtographer, BiLaL Hussein:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ 20071..._photographer_3
Plus, didn't Harry Reid just recently admit that surge was working.*
I believe he did.
No question mark cuz that's not a question.
America is winning, you are losing. Thanks for nothing.
Date Country City Killed Injured Description
12/22/2007 Somalia Baidoa 1 0 Two members of an Islamic militia assassinate a local judge.
12/21/2007 Iraq al-Salam 1 2 Jihadis manage to kill one child with a mortar attack on a residential neighborhood.
12/21/2007 Iraq Yusufiya 5 8 A suicidal Sunni takes out five Iraqis in a bombing.
12/21/2007 Pakistan Kanaan 50 100 A Fedayeen, carrying a bomb packed with nails and bomb bearings, detonates in a mosque, killing at least fifty.
12/21/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 47-year-old man is shot dead outside a mosque by Muslim radicals.
12/20/2007 Iraq Baghdad 3 27 Fundamentalists bomb a liquor store, killing three passersby.
12/20/2007 Iraq Kanaan 12 28 A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills a dozen people at a Sunni council meeting.
12/19/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 3 1 Islamic gunmen on motorcycles brutally assault a car carrying bank employees, killing three.
12/19/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 42-year-old man is shot to death by militant Muslims.
12/18/2007 Iraq Mosul 10 2 Yazidi tribesman are the target of radical Sunnis, who manage to kill ten.
12/18/2007 Afghanistan Farah 15 9 Fifteen Afghans guarding a fuel tanker are murdered in cold blood by a Taliban ambush.
12/18/2007 Thailand Yala 4 0 Four local guards are shot to death by Muslim radicals, who then behead one of the bodies.
12/18/2007 Iraq Baquba 2 15 Children are among the casualites as a suicide bomber detonates along a city street.
12/18/2007 Iraq Abbara 16 28 Sixteen people sitting in a caf � are blown to bits by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
12/18/2007 Philippines Basilan 2 5 Abu Sayyaf gunmen kill two Filipino troops in an ambush.
12/18/2007 Iraq Baghdad 7 12 Jihadis take out seven Iraqis in multiple attacks, including a university professor.
12/17/2007 Afghanistan Uruzgan 5 0 A bicycle bomber murders a family of five, including three children.
12/17/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 4 4 Islamic militants are suspected of firing a mortar shell into a market, killing four civilians.
12/17/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 12 24 Three children in their mother are among a dozen civilians killed when suspected Islamists shell a marketplace.
I think Free Speech is saying that it would be better if the Iraqis were living under Saddam Hussein , and being brutalized systematically by the government as well as living in squaler due to the UN Economic Sanctions.
Your wish must be working. Many of the reporters are wondering the streets without body armor. Good Job.
>So what you're saying is that Bill C left out things in Iraq that Faux should've covered but didn't, eh?
Perhaps you should write Faux and tell them to report what is going on in Iraq.
That isn't what I said.
>Wait, is that website the one that was found to be attributing certain attacks to Muslims that had nothing to do with them (including, IIRC, a killing by an American soldier)? Are there not enough attacks by Islamic Conservatives that they need to be inflated?
No
>I think Free Speech would probably appreciate it if a jerk-off like you didn't speak for him/her.
radmod | 12.23.07 - 9:23 am | #
I think Free Speech would probably appreciate it if a jerk-off like you didn't speak for it.
Ignore them and they will go away.
Article published Sunday, December 23, 2007
Attacks in Algeria
TWO car bomb attacks in Algeria's capital, which killed at least 31, may be signaling an upsurge in Islamic extremist activity outside the usual venues.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the terrorist organization that claimed credit for the suicide bombings in Algiers, has been around under different names since at least 1998, but what was new and disquieting about last week's attacks were the targets.
One was the building housing Algeria's Constitutional Council, which oversees elections. The other was the offices of various United Nations bodies, including the U.N. Development Program and the World Food Program, which clearly benefit the people of Algeria.
In claiming responsibility for the carnage, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb referred to the agencies as "the Crusaders and their agents, the slaves of America and the sons of France," Algeria's former colonial master.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs...ION02/ 712230303
BTW, I don't get this. Vince P is shown to be a raving anti-Muslim yet I noticed he uses 'jihadis' more than once. Now unless there is something I don't know, there is no such word as 'jihadi' or 'jihadis', though there is 'jihadist'. Is this just another made up word by a bunch of illiterate red-necks, like 'nukular', 'furrin', and "islamo-fascist"?
radmod | 12.23.07 - 9:34 am | #
Argument Rejected: Premise "Jihadi is not a word" is false.
Jihadi (n) is in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Where there is Islam, there is violence.
Because of the multiculturalist anti-assimilation imperative, we will see more and more of stories like these: a father in Toronto killed his five-year-old daughter because she was the child of his first wife and another man. Pakistani elders, operating according to Islamic law, awarded him custody of the child, but evidently he believed that only killing her could restore his honor.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmi...ives/ 001085.php
Argument Rejected: Premise " 'You must think Faux "is giving incomplete data about the enemy attacks" ' is a problem that needs addressing" is false
It is the nature of cable television news to be unable to cover all stories. There is no expectation that it is obligated to do so.
BILL erroneous states this (the incomplete conveyance of the Islamic jihadist attacks) is a problem.
I am pointing out that Bill is arbitrarily limiting the scope of the attacks he is denigrating Fox for omitting.
Since the goal of all the groups is the same and they are all working from the same ideology then he should include the complete data, so that the events in Iraq are seen in their proper context. By omitting data himself, he is exhibiting the same bias he falsely accusing Fox of having.
We have military troops in the Philippines. Why does Bill heartlessly omit them ? Are they any less valuable as Americans because they’re in East Asia?
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. -- A 14-year-old female rape victim is strangled to death in March 2004 by her father and brother because she has supposedly tarnished the family name.
In April 2004, a man brutally kills his wife and daughter after finding out that his brother had previously molested them.
A teenage girl with a Turkish background has her throat cut by her father after he learns she has a Christian boyfriend.
All three cases -- taken from a study by Memorial University psychiatry professor Dr. Amin Muhammad and resident Sujay Patel -- involve unspeakable acts against females. And all were considered appropriate by the killers based on long-standing tradition and cultural beliefs.
http://www.canada.com/vancouvers...6b9d4a5& k=20265
The latest ghastly murder of sixteen-year-old Aqsa in Toronto is another spine chiller; not only because the way her Muslim father killed her but also because she fell victim to a grossly misconstrued belief nourished, promoted and encouraged by millions of obscurantist custodians of Islam. It is shocking that what ignorant Muslims have been doing with impunity in the so-called Muslim World – killing and victimizing weak and innocent in the name of Islam – can also happen in Canada and other civilized countries. This is a wakeup call for everybody who wants to protect life, property and honor of all human beings, everywhere.
According to the UN’s Special Rapporteur “honour killings had been reported in Egypt, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey and Yemen”. Egypt is 90 percent Muslim, Iran 98 percent, Jordan 92 percent, Lebanon 60 percent, Morocco 99 percent, Pakistan 97 percent, the Syrian Arab Republic 90 percent and Turkey 99 percent. Of the 192 member-states of the United Nations almost all honour killings take place in nine overwhelmingly Muslim countries. Denial is not an option.
ABU DUJANA, the self-described military commander of the Islamic extremist group behind the Bali bombings, has a chilling Christmas message for tens of thousands of Westerners in Indonesia, including Australian tourists in Bali.
Asked if more terrorist attacks were being planned, the captured leader of Jemaah Islamiah said: "There are other cadres out there … It is their obligation."
And if there was any lingering doubt, Dujana has told prosecutors that the controversial Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was the group's emir, or spiritual leader, for years.
Dujana has known Mr Bashir since 1989, the year Dujana went to train as a terrorist in Pakistan.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/ world...8175342077.html
Violence is a way of life in all Muslim countries.
I'll let Dennis Prager speak for me in regards to the stupidity that passes for the Leftist ability to think and debate:
It is worth mentioning that following my lecture, the student who wrote the column comparing me to a Ku Klux Klanner came over to me and said he was writing a column of apology to me and asked to be photographed with me. This is not surprising. Students at
most universities are almost brainwashed into being leftist -- and the way they are taught to disagree with their political opponents is by using ad hominem attacks.
Conservatives are described over and over as mean-spirited, war-loving, greedy, bigoted, racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, homophobic, sexist, intolerant and oblivious to human suffering.
Such ad hominem labels are the left's primary rhetorical weapons. So when leftist students are actually confronted with even one articulate conservative, many enter a world of cognitive dissonance. That is one reason why universities rarely invite conservatives to speak: they might change some students' minds.
Regarding the term "Islamo-Fascism," most students heard the arguments I presented for the legitimacy of the term for the first time in their lives. Very briefly summarized, these arguments were:
First, the term is not anti-Muslim. One may object to the term on factual grounds, i.e., one may claim that there are no fascistic behaviors among people acting in the name of Islam -- but such a claim is a denial of the obvious.
So once one acknowledges the obvious, that there is fascistic behavior among a core of Muslims -- specifically, a cult of violence and the wanton use of physical force to impose an ideology on others -- the term "Islamo-Fascism" is entirely appropriate.
Second, the question then arises as to whether that term is anti-Muslim in that it besmirches the name of Islam and attempts to describe all Muslims as fascist. This objection, too, has a clear response.
The term no more implies all Muslims or Islam is fascistic than the term "German fascism" implied all Germans were fascists or "Italian fascism" or "Japanese fascism" implied that all Italians or all Japanese were fascists. Indeed, even religious groups have been labeled as fascist. During World War II, for example, Croatian Catholic fascists were called Catholic Fascists, and no one argued that the term was invalid because it purportedly labeled all Catholics or Catholicism fascist. When the left uses the term "American imperialism," are they implying that all Americans are imperialists? Then why does Islamo-Fascism label all Muslims?
Iraq - the best story of the year
Against all the odds, an optimistic prediction comes true
Tim Hames
Never make predictions,” said the American baseball manager Casey Stengel, “especially about the future.” Alas, I have never been able to resist an invitation to emulate Nostradamus, though without developing the flair for ambiguity and impenetrability that has enabled his enthusiasts to claim that he foresaw everything.
So when, for the January 1 edition of this newspaper, I was asked to write 100 words of predictions for 2007, I embraced the task with diligence and as many prophecies as possible were squeezed into the space available.
So imagine my horror when I opened the page of predictions and discovered that most of my colleagues had deftly managed to offer the fewest possible hostages to fortune in their contributions or had written elegant homilies on how mad it was to be straying into this line of business in the first place.
Daniel Finkelstein noted that “the record of experts making predictions is not very good” and, hence, the best strategy was “to forecast that what happens in the coming year will follow very closely what happened last year”.
The second rule works most of the time but is less useful than it might appear. It is no help if the event involved lacks a precedent. This is demonstrated by the distinctly mixed record of my own reckless predictions. These were, on the one hand, that Gordon Brown would be elected Labour leader unopposed, that Nicolas Sarkozy would become the President of France and that Steve McClaren would not be in charge of the England football team by December 31 and, on the other, that Hilary Benn would be elected deputy leader of the Labour Party (Harriet Harman surely has made the case that he should have been) that Jack Straw, not Alistair Darling, would be the Chancellor (Mr Darling seems to be striving to show that Mr Straw was the smarter bet) and, worst of the lot, that Barack Obama would not run for the US presidency (I blame Oprah).
And there was one more that defied the notion that “the future is the past” completely. It was “Iraq is more peaceful in 2007 than at any time since the 2003 invasion”. Not only is this essentially correct but it is the most important story in the world this year.
By any measure, the US-led surge has been little short of a triumph. The number of American military fatalities is reduced sharply, as is the carnage of Iraqi civilians, Baghdad as a city is functioning again, oil output is above where it stood in March 2003 but at a far stronger price per barrel and, the acid test, many of those who fled to Syria and Jordan are today returning home.
Violence At Low Ebb In Iraq, U.S. Says
Baghdad — Violence in Iraq is at its lowest levels since the first year of the American invasion, finally opening a window for reconciliation among rival sects, the second-ranking U.S. general said Sunday as Iraqi forces formally took control of security across half the country.
Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, the man responsible for the ground campaign in Iraq, said that the first six months of 2007 were probably the most violent period since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. The past six months, however, had seen some of the lowest levels of violence since the conflict began, Odierno said, attributing the change to an increase in both American troops and better-trained Iraqi forces.
“I feel we are back in '03 and early '04. Frankly I was here then, and the environment is about the same in terms of security in my opinion,” he said. “What is different from then is that the Iraqi security forces are significantly more mature.”
Violence killed at least 27 Iraqis on Sunday — 16 of them members of a U.S.-backed neighborhood patrol killed in clashes with al-Qaida in a volatile province neighboring Baghdad. Thirty-five al-Qaida fighters also died in that fighting, Iraqi officials said.
Odierno said Anbar province, once plagued by violence, only recorded 12 attacks in the past week, down from an average of 26 per week over the past three months.
“The violence last week was the lowest ever,” he said of Anbar.
Violence quelled, Baghdad on spot
President Bush's troop surge will end this month, and although the White House is pressing the Iraqi government to capitalize on the U.S. military's success, it is declining to set hard deadlines for Iraqi lawmakers to pass critical legislation.
Even the strongest backers of the president's Iraq policy say there is a political risk to this approach.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said the United States has "made military history" with the "most successful counterinsurgency operation ever." But the South Carolina Republican also said that "at the end of the day, the American public will be looking for political breakthroughs."
The Iraqi government "should do this by the first of next year," Mr. Graham said.
Violence in Iraq is at its lowest levels since the first year of the American invasion.
Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, the man responsible for the ground campaign in Iraq, said that the first six months of 2007 were probably the most violent period since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. The past six months, however, had seen some of the lowest levels of violence since the conflict began, Gen. Odierno said, attributing the change to an increase in both U.S. troops and better-trained Iraqi forces.
"I feel we are back in '03 and early '04. Frankly. I was here then, and the environment is about the same in terms of security in my opinion," he told reporters yesterday in Baghdad. "What is different from then is that the Iraqi security forces are significantly more mature."
When Mr. Bush in January announced the surge of about 30,000 U.S. troops to Iraq, he said the goal was to create "breathing space" for the Iraqi government to pass laws demonstrating the reconciliation of Shia, Sunni and Kurdish factions.
But the Iraqi government has not yet passed an oil revenue-sharing law, a law approving provincial elections or a law allowing former Ba'ath Party members to re-enter the government.
The first of the U.S. surge troops — about 2,500 — will begin leaving Iraq this month, with the goal of returning to pre-surge troop levels of about 130,000 by March.Pentagon Reports Security Gains In Iraq - Peter Spiegel and Julian E. Barnes, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- Security in Iraq has improved consistently and dramatically in nearly every major category over the last three months, the most sustained period of such gains in nearly two years, according to the first Pentagon report to attempt to quantify recent progress in detail.
However, the report also makes it clear that progress could easily be lost unless improvements are made quickly in Iraq's economy and its unreliable central government, and it illustrates how dependent the advances are on restraint by still-active militant groups.
In addition, Iraq's domestic security forces remain a source of concern, with their ability to secure their own country constrained by deficiencies in logistics and a shortage in command officer ranks that "will take years" to rebuild, the report says.
The report, issued Tuesday, is one of a series of quarterly reports to Congress that the Pentagon has been required to submit for two years. In the past, the evaluations have painted grim pictures of a slide into chaos.
Even the previous two reports, compiled in the midst of the Bush administration's troop buildup, described Iraq as consumed by violence, with attacks decreasing in some areas flooded by newly arriving forces only to increase in other regions.
The new study is the first to report broad reductions in violence in multiple categories, reflecting declines in civilian deaths, attacks on U.S. forces and suicide bombings.
"Improved security is beginning to achieve momentum that, if maintained, may lead to significant stability," the report saysThe Sergeants' War - Ralph Peters, New York Post
December 19, 2007 -- IF you want the wide-angle-lens view of a conflict, ask the generals. But if you want up-close-and-personal snapshots of war, talk to the street-level NCOs.
Three senior sergeants serving with the 1st Infantry Division's Dragon (4th) Brigade took time away from leading their troops in Baghdad's former badlands to share with The Post their views of where we are in the war - and where we're headed.
First Sgt. Todd Hood is "Top" in the Delta Destroyers of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry; 1st Sgt. Travis Wewers has the Bravo Barracudas of the 4th Brigade's Special Troops Battalion, and Master Sgt. Michael Clauss is the brigade's senior intelligence sergeant - soon to take over the Barracudas from Wewers.
Between them, these veteran soldiers have seen it all.
Question: 2007 has been a year of impressive progress in the Dragon Brigade's sector. Where are we now?
Hood: "We're on the road to stability and prosperity, but we're not there yet. Al Dora has been one of the toughest areas in Iraq and Destroyer Company operated in the "Northern Mahallas," the neighborhoods viewed as the sanctuary areas for the Anti-Coalition Forces.
"We had to have a more intel-driven operation and we created a network of dependable local informants who want to see their neighborhoods come out of the ashes. Enough locals presented themselves to us from the beginning . . . to take their lives back from the terrorists and criminals."
Clauss: "We're at a delicate juncture. Combat operations have the enemy back on his heels. The Iraqi citizens are throwing off the yoke of al Qaeda and the militias. [Iraqis] are tired of the violence . . . ultimately, the Iraqis have to decide what they want to do with their country."Why I Support Our President and Victory
CJ Grisham
I joined the Army in January of 1995. To be honest, my motivating factor was that I was engaged and in a dead end job. I needed direction, motivation, and maturity. My sister was supposed to join the Army, but at the last minute backed out. Feeling bad, she gave the recruiter the name of her punk, purple-haired brother as a likely candidate for military service. Keep in mind that I was a head-banger with shoulder length long hair. Depending on when you ask, my hair was either purple, orange, red, green, or black (or some combination of the colors). The recruiter called me and I resisted. I refused to step foot into that recruiting office. My father is a retired United States Navy Command Master Chief who used to work with the Navy's recruiting command, so I knew that if I stepped foot into that recruiting station, the chances of me joining the Army went up about 80%. So, the recruiter came to me.
I put up a big front about not joining the Army, but I knew that I wanted to do it. I just didn't want any of my friends to know that I wanted to do it. I made it look like I joined kicking and screaming. The truth is I was getting extremely frustrated with our government and military. Just two years earlier, Ramzi Yousef blew up a truck under the World Trade Center in the hopes of bringing America to its knees. It was treated like a criminal offense. Six Americans died that day and more than 1,000 were injured. But, we did nothing in my eyes to prevent another attack nor address the root causes of it - extremist Islam. Instead of fighting Al Qaeda, President Clinton felt that the Branch Davidians were more of a threat and invaded them instead.
On November 13, 1995, a car bomb with the equivalent of 200 pounds of TNT exploded in the courtyard of the Office of the Program Manager, Saudi Arabia National Guard, known as OPM-SANG. The explosion killed five Americans and injured more than 30. Just seven months later, on June 25, 1996, extremist Muslims struck the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. Ninteen American servicemen and a Saudi were killed and 372 others were injured. Up to that point, the bombing was the largest ever directed against Americans. Again, we did nothing under the administration in place at the time except refuse to promote the Brigadier General in charge of the buildings.
The next four years would bring the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the foiled July 1997 plot to bomb the New York Subway system and December 1999 "millennium plot" to attack Seattle, and the USS Cole attack in 2000. Another 240 Americans were killed and more than 4,100 were injured in the combined attacks. More Americans died during all these attacks and the worst we did was launch a couple of cruise missiles into the Afghani desert. Nothing was done to counter the mounting threat against us.
I don't need to mention what happened in September 2001. But, there was a marked difference in what happened AFTER that attack. Our President, George W. Bush, didn't sit on his hands and sigh about how sad it is that Muslims hate us. He did something about it. He took the fight to the enemy and he hasn't stopped yet. And he won't stop until 1) the terrorists give up (which won't happen) or 2) he leaves office. I finally have a president who is willing to guarantee freedom and victory and who isn't ashamed of stopping the attacks at their source - the Middle East.
President Bush cares deeply about this country. I could see it in his eyes when I and a some fellow bloggers sat down with him last month. He's got conviction and will NOT govern this nation based on polls and political opposition. He does what is right and what is right is to defeat this enemy BEFORE they have a chance to regroup and attack us again. This conviction has cost thousands of American lives - the TRUE martyrs in this war. I hesitate to say because it sounds so bad, but it was worth it in my opinion. I was injured in Iraq and I have friends who were injured and the hell that we live on a daily basis is worth taking the fight to them.
Did Iraq attack us first? Well, yes and no. They fired on us numerous times while enforcing the no-fly zone and attempted to assassinate Bush #41. And Iraq also harbored terrorist leader Musab al Zarqawi. Though not a member of Al Qaeda at the time, he frequently worked with the terrorist organization. Doesn't matter. Iraq knowingly harbored terrorists. Ansar al Islam was on the payroll of Saddam. They frequently collaborated with AQ by sharing training grounds and providing technical assistance. They were also Saddam's surrogates in his war against the Kurds. Saddam handed out $25,000 checks to the families of suicide bombers in Israel - terrorists. Terrorism attacked us and just as Bush said after the 9/11 attacks, "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them." Finally, we did something about terrorism. Why did it have to take George W. Bush? It didn't have to.
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