A laptop computer was found...and a piece of paper. The combined intelligence agencies of the USA believe it means the 'insurgency' (actually the resistance) is weakening.
Too bad the 2500 dead Americans and between 100,000 and 250,000 Iraqi civilians we killed aren't around to celebrate. SO! Who wrote those documents? Don't know. Why did they write them? So Bush's approval ratings could rise above 30% I guess. Are they true? Doesn't matter...they are just the writings of a person. Does Cheney care? Not unless there are a few bucks in it for him. So not we base the 'progress' in a war of aggression on...a piece of paper and a laptop. Read the article....it is long but there is some funny shit in there. ps...no one showed us what was written in those docs...notice that? Captured papers show weakening insurgency By PATRICK QUINN, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago BAGHDAD, Iraq - A document purportedly captured in an al-Qaida hideout portrays the insurgency in Iraq as being in "bleak" shape, saying that it is losing strength and proposing ways to stir up trouble between the U.S. and Iran to divert American attention. American and Iraqi forces have killed 104 insurgentsin 452 raids nationwide since al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed last week, the U.S. military said. (MEANING SINCE HE WAS THAWED OUT LAST WEEK) Arrests, weapons seizures and money shortages are taking a heavy toll on al-Qaida's insurgency in Iraq, according to the three-page transcript released Thursday by the Iraqi government, which said it reflects al-Qaida policy and the terror organization's cooperation with groups loyal to Saddam Hussein. There was no way to confirm the authenticity of the information attributed to al-Qaida, and U.S. and Iraqi officials offered conflicting accounts of when and where it was seized. (AH! So NO ONE KNOWS!) Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office said Iraqi forces found the document in al-Zarqawi's hideout after the June 7 U.S. airstrike that killed him. (AH! So a LAPTOP and piece of PAPER survived TWO 500 LB BOMB DIRECT HITS! oh WHERE can I get me a laptop like THAT ONE???) However, U.S. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said the document had been taken from a computer in a raid during the three-week operation to track down al-Zarqawi. (AH! So it was found in TWO DIFFERENT PLACES!) Caldwell said sweeps across Iraq since al-Zarqawi's death led to 28 significant arms caches. He said the raids included 255 joint operations and 143 by Iraqi forces alone. (BUT they fail to mention that MOST Iraqi people are ARMED and that the ammo and explosives left behind from Iraqi ground forces were never GUARDED and were taken by the Iraqis!) The al-Qaida document said its insurgency was being hurt by an increase in U.S.-trained Iraqi forces, by widespread arrests and seizures of weapons, and by a crackdown on financial outlets. According to a translation provided by National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie, the document said the best way to overcome the "current bleak situation" would be to involve U.S. forces in a "war against another country" or hostile group. (Well, that proves it!) The way to do this, the document said, "is to try and inflame the situation between America and Iran" or between the U.S. and followers of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric. It suggests carrying out a range of terrorist acts for which it will falsely implicate Iran, including bombings in the West and kidnappings. It also recommends declaring the existence of a relationship between Iran and terrorist groups, and disseminating bogus confessions showing that Iran has weapons of mass destruction. (Er, Hasn't there BEEN bombings and kidnappings all along and hasn't The Decider been SAYING there was a relationship between Iraq and Iran? So the news IS????) Vice President Dick Cheney said the document, if authenticated, shows the terrorists know they are losing the war. The words "are fascinating because they do reveal obviously whoever wrote them, assuming they are authentic somebody who believes they are on the losing end of the engagement," Cheney said on the Sean Hannity radio show. (UNDENIABLE PROOF! yawn) "I think the psychological business here is really enormously important as well, too. Somebody said the other day that ... the way we win is when ... the terrorists finally become convinced that we won't quit." (SURE! Worked in Vietnam, right? Oh...Cheney Bush and Rumsfeld didn't GO to Vietnam, did they?) Al-Rubaie called it "the beginning of the end of al-Qaida in Iraq." (glad we finally reached the beginning....) "Now we have the upper hand," he told reporters. "We feel that we know their locations, the names of their leaders, their whereabouts, their movements, through the documents we found during the last few days." (just like they knew the locations of the WMD's this war was started to find???) Mustafa Alani, a terror expert at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai, said he did not believe the document was authentic. (someone with a brain speaks up...) "I wonder why they would put their strategy down in writing, even on a computer. These people learned a good lesson a long time ago," he said, recalling that one of al-Zarqawi's computers was seized earlier. Terror consultant Evan Kohlmann called Alani's criticism "simplistic." (SIMPLISTIC! Imagine....how dare he say it in a simple way "I doubt it is real") "They do have to write these ideas down somewhere. At a certain point, you have to have written records," said Kohlmann, the New York-based founder of globalterroralert.com. But, Kohlmann said, "it's impossible to say" whether the document is authentic. "Without knowing the author, it's really impossible to know the document's credibility, its relevance and its significance." The U.S. military has in the past released documents it said were seized from Al-Qaida in Iraq, including one in February 2004 reportedly written by al-Zarqawi complaining that if the insurgency fails to prevent the handover of sovereignty, "then there will be no choice to pack our bags and move to another land..." In May, documents were released that showed the group was concerned about disorganization within its cells in the capital area, with one extremist describing them as simply "a daily annoyance" to the Iraqi government. Despite the document's pessimistic assessment and a fresh security crackdown in Baghdad, new violence erupted in the capital Thursday and at least 24 killings were reported throughout the country. A bomb in a parked car detonated in a southwest Baghdad neighborhood, killing at least three civilians and wounding 14. In an even deadlier attack, gunmen shot and killed 10 men riding a bus in the industrial area of Baqouba, close to where al-Zarqawi was killed. The U.S. military said Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian with ties to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, has taken over from al-Zarqawi as head of al-Qaida in Iraq. Al-Masri apparently is the man that the terrorist group identified in a Web posting last week as its new leader Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, a nom de guerre, said Caldwell. The military showed a picture of al-Masri who was named in a most-wanted list issued in February 2005 by the U.S. command and who now has a $200,000 bounty on his head wearing a traditional white Arab headdress. Al-Qaida has been responsible for numerous attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, where the American death toll has now hit 2,500, according to the military. Meanwhile, the Iraqi prime minister pressed forward with a plan to begin reconciling Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups. But he canceled a planned announcement of the program, apparently after disagreements with Sunni Arab and Kurdish members of his coalition government. Al-Maliki has opened the door for talks with insurgents opposed to the country's political process as part of his national reconciliation initiative, but said any negotiations would exclude terrorist groups. The plan could include a pardon for some prisoners. Yassin Majeed, an aide to al-Maliki, denied reports that talks were on with armed groups of any kind. "There is absolutely no dialogue with any armed group at the present time." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XmUd6C/bOaOAA/cUmLAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! 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