Thank you...I aim to please. ;-)
On 6/16/06, mark robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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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