The inserted comical remarks were the only thing that made this
worth reading. Kinda like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
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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."
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