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So tell me Andy, if these snipers are seeking a global audience, why indulge them? Offering free advertisements to recruitment?
Well then we should all feel so 'inside' the movement. Who's side are you on anyway?
Oh, now, it's a 'propaganda' campaign by the rebels. I see. The 'talking head' retired general states the USA uses sniper teams as well. I guess we all know where they learned the technique, huh?
You know, the Iraqi military was basically incompetent before the USA invasion. Not only that but they didn't have high quality explosives either, those explosives were all under UN seals.
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Koffman states the snipers know what they are doing. I want to know if the bullets are armor piercing? There have been videos absconded from snipers in Iraq before. The American soldier goes down, the Iraqi rebel states 'God is Great' in his language and then the American soldier stands up again to chase down the snipers, capture them and then treat them for their wounds.
There is nothing new here Anderson !!!!!
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By maneuvering the 'information' away from the place the USA military attacks Iraqi towns causing the high death tolls, it focuses on the so called 'specialized killers' and not the reason why the deaths occurred in the first place.
Ramadi, Iraq
U.S. October death toll in Iraq hits 70
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=8148
The military says the sharp increase in U.S. casualties — 70 so far this month — is tied to Ramadan and a security crackdown that has left American forces more vulnerable to attack in Baghdad and its suburbs. Muslim tenets hold that fighting a foreign occupation force during Islam's holy month puts a believer especially close to God.
Ramadi was a favorite place for Saddam to kill Shi'ites:
After the Gulf War cease-fire, a promise was made by Saddam Hussein on November 3, 1992 in Ramadi that "the mother of battles . . . has continued, and will continue."
There were anti-government demonstrations in al-Ramadi province in 1995. About 2,000 people arrested following the demonstrations were held without charge or trial, as were tens of thousands arrested in previous years.
On February 19, 1999, Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, the most senior Shi'a religious leader in Iraq, was killed in downtown Najaf when the car he was riding in was boxed in by two other cars and hit by machine gun fire. Outside Baghdad illegal assemblies of Shi'a took place in most of the major cities of the south in reaction to the al-Sadr killing. Nine demonstrators reportedly were executed in Ramadi. To prevent them from leading religious gatherings, the chief Shi'a clerics of Basra and Nasiriyah reportedly were arrested. These government actions ultimately silenced the mourners and protesters, and the disturbances had ended by late February 1999. In April of 1999 about 100 detainees from Radwaniyah prison reportedly were taken to Ramadi province where they were buried alive in a pit.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/ramadiyah.htm
The people in Ramadi are hardened to war and attack. These so called insurgents are rebels. They have been rebels since before the invasion into Iraq by Bush. All this violence and rebellion had to be well known to The USA Coalition before they invaded. So, much for thinking the USA would be received with open arms and welcome. When the USA invaded Iraq the heirarchy of the military already knew about the nightmare and Cheney and Bush knew it would be a windfall profits issue for their cronies, especially Halliburton. Iraq was never a threat to the USA. Saddam had his hands full with resident Shi'ites that rebelled long ago. The 'al Sadr' referred to above was the father of the current Cleric al Sadr. They are freedom fighters for the Shi'ites. This doesn't make sense. Bush is making enemies of the same people that Saddam did and seeks the same actions against them.
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Well now that we know something about the rebels that were established in Iraq before the Iraq invasion we can look at the attacks today.
Where? Baghdad. Why only Baghdad? Because that is the ONLY place the USA has encampments that are safe enough to lauch attacks into the cities of Iraq.
11 more U.S. troops reported killed in Iraq
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/15790990.htm
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military announced Wednesday that 11 American troops had been killed in Iraq since Tuesday, mostly in Baghdad, the apparent result of the United States' latest attempt to quell intensifying violence in the capital.
The Green Zone is the only place the USA military has control. Possibly not even Baghdad IF they are saying rebel snipers have infiltrated the Green Zone area to kill USA military personnel.
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The progress of the USA military against the rebels of Iraq has been limited to Baghdad. The next step is out of the country or be crushed
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Turning point
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061018/NEWS/610180333/1038/OPINION01
The news from Iraq continues to get worse.
Journalists who have spent time in Iraq are now telling us several things. For one, the Iraqi government does not function beyond the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. It does not collect taxes. It does not protect the Iraqi people. Instead, the nation is governed by an anarchic patchwork of tribal organizations, militias, and gangs.
This weekend another reality became evident. The bloodletting in the village of Badal showed that the sectarian violence engulfing the nation for months is now sliding into outright civil war, with militias and death squads laying waste to villages. This weekend when scores of Sunnis and Shiites were killed in the Badal region, the U.S. military stayed away for two days. The official line was that they had not been asked to intervene.
Nor did they want to. As Iraq descends into chaos, the United States has an increasingly marginal role. The inaction of U.S. troops shows that someone has decided the United States cannot referee a civil war. And yet civil war is rising up all around them.
These are not happy days for the United States, whose foreign policy appears to have been hijacked by rigid ideologues incapable of admitting error. They are less happy for the Iraqi people, who are looking ahead to a future of ethnic cleansing, forced migration, and tyranny. There have been a variety of turning points during this debacle, and some observers saw the massacres at Badal this weekend as another turn toward the worst.
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Don Rumsfeld needs to 'fix' the Iraqi police and military to make sure they are the 'side' they are paid to be on rather than the government of their choice. I didn't know the Iraqi military and police were mercenaries for the Central Government? If the 'volunteer' Iraqi forces don't hold loyality to their government then there really isn't an Iraqi force, now is there?
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Blah, blah.
Change of subject a bit. Following the London Bombings that were directly linked to a Pakistan Muslim community; London took on the challenge of outreach.
Mahabba Unlimited presents: A Uniting for the Prophet (saw) event: ::: ALIVE IN OUR HEARTS :::
http://www.minhajuk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1747&sid=f491421c8baca9deb51622e2ec634bc6
with Habib Ali Al-Jifri and friends... A day of celebration, singing, poetry and spiritual upliftment.
Sunday, 30th April 2006
Wembley Conference Centre
London, United Kingdom.
... This year's event promises to be even more poignant and important given the attacks in London last year and the recent controversy over the caricatures published in Denmark and across Europe. This is an important time for Muslims to come together with their friends to promote the Prophetic message of mercy, civic action and peaceful coexistence. We are expecting the event to be even more popular than last year and we are expecting guests from across Europe, including France, Germany, Poland, The Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark.
Why is this important? Because we all are important and need to live together on Earth. That's why.
http://www.mahabbaunlimited.org/
Iraq is not about terrorism. It's about instability for as long the USA stays in that country.
The attacks on London, Madrid and Amman happened because of our invasion. London was never a target before. They are now fighting a war in Afghanistand the USA was supposed to fight but didn't.
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One more thing. Iran. From the Jordan Times:
Iran nuclear issue tops Olmert’s Kremlin talks
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news5.htm
MOSCOW (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought President Vladimir Putin's support at talks here Wednesday for a tougher stance against Iran's nuclear programme, in which Russian engineers are building the country's first reactor.
"We are at a critical juncture and the entire international community must join ranks to block Iran's true intention of arming itself with nuclear weapons," Olmert told journalists after talks with Putin in the Kremlin.
"I leave this meeting with the sense that President Putin understands that danger." Olmert described Iran's atomic project — which Tehran insists is restricted to a civilian power programme — as "a threat to Israel which we cannot reconcile ourselves to". The Israeli leader was due to hold talks with Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov later Wednesday and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday, as well as meeting Jewish community leaders. Russia is constructing Iran's first civilian nuclear power station at Bushehr and has resisted a push for UN sanctions, arguing these could provoke a regional crisis. Moscow also supplies the Islamic republic with sophisticated conventional weapons.
Backed by its US ally, Israel says sanctions are necessary following Tehran's failure to suspend uranium enrichment, a process Israel, the United States and several European powers say hides a secret nuclear weapons programme.
Israel — widely considered the Middle East's sole, if undeclared nuclear weapons power — considers Iran its chief foe, pointing to calls from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to wipe the Jewish state off the map and alleged Iranian backing for the Lebanese Hizbollah and Palestinian groups.
Olmert's trip marked the 15th anniversary of the renewal of diplomatic ties between Russia and Israel, following the Soviet collapse. Although tensions over Moscow's ties with Iran and Syria topped the agenda, both leaders stressed their countries' close relationship.
Putin said after talks that the struggles against "terror, extremism and nationalist disputes" united the two countries. The Russian foreign ministry issued a statement praising joint efforts "against modern challenges and threats, including the fight against international terrorism". Olmert hailed Russia as a "dominant and crucial factor in the world" and recalled that Putin had promised during his visit to Israel last year that "Russia's relations in the Middle East will no longer be one-sided." Iran is not the only sticking point, however.
Israel also claims that Russian weaponry sold to Syria has been passed on to Hizbollah fighters, who allegedly used the latest Russian-made anti-tank rockets to deadly effect during fighting with the Israeli army in July and August.
Moscow has also raised eyebrows in Israel and the United States by maintaining contacts with the Palestinian movement Hamas.
The Vremya Novostei daily reported Wednesday that Putin was furious over reports that Syria had supplied Hizbollah with weapons sold by Russia.
"However, this does not mean that Russia will completely stop selling weapons to Iran and Syria, as the Israelis want," the daily predicted. "Cooperation with Tehran and Damascus, including in the oil and gas and atomic [energy] spheres, bring Moscow dividends — and not only material. Russia plays a unique middleman role." Russia, along with the European Union, the United Nations and the United States, is part of the so-called Quartet that sponsors the floundering Middle East peace process but an Israeli government official has made it clear that efforts to revive it were off the agenda of this week's talks. "At the moment, the peace process is not an issue on the agenda," the official said.
Olmert reiterated at the Kremlin that he was ready to meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. However, he said peace with the Palestinians was impossible without recognition of Israel's right to exist and an end to attacks.
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