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Skriven 2006-11-11 07:13:05 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 24890 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: Al Qaeda
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Jeff Binkley -> All wrote:
 JB> 12,000 is not an infinite supply that the liberal surrender monkeys try
 JB> to portray.  12,000 is a very managable number...



That's only one stinkin' division's worth of troops in a regular army. How long
do they think that would last in a flat out fight?


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 JB> http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/10/D8LAC4OG1.html

 JB> Al-Qaida in Iraq Claims It's Winning War
 JB> Nov 10 1:17 PM US/Eastern

 JB> By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
 JB> Associated Press Writer

 JB> BAGHDAD, Iraq



 JB> Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed in a new audio tape Friday to be winning the
 JB> war faster than expected in Iraq and said it had mobilized 12,000
 JB> fighters who had "vowed to die for God's sake."

 JB> The U.S. military, meanwhile, reported that three U.S. soldiers and a
 JB> Marine were killed Thursday in Iraq, the U.S. military said, bringing
 JB> the number of Americans who have died in the country so far this month
 JB> to 25. At least 105 U.S. forces died in October, the fourth highest
 JB> monthly toll of the war.

 JB> On the audio tape made available on militant Web sites, the al-Qaida in
 JB> Iraq leader also welcomed the Republican electoral defeat that led to
 JB> the departure of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. He added that the
 JB> group's fighters would not rest until they had blown up the White House.

 JB> "The al-Qaida army has 12,000 fighters in Iraq, and they have vowed to
 JB> die for God's sake," a man who identified himself as Abu Hamza al-
 JB> Muhajir said.

 JB> Al-Muhajir, also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, also urged the U.S. to
 JB> stay in Iraq so his group would have more opportunities to kill American
 JB> troops. "We haven't had enough of your blood yet," he told the U.S.

 JB> "We will not rest from our Jihad until we are under the olive trees of
 JB> Rumieh and we have blown up the filthiest house _ which is called the
 JB> White House," al-Muhajir said. It was not clear what Rumieh was
 JB> referring to.

 JB> Al-Muhajir became the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq after Abu Musab al-
 JB> Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike in June. The tape could not be
 JB> independently verified.

 JB> "The American people have put their feet on the right path by ...
 JB> realizing their president's betrayal in supporting Israel," the terror
 JB> leader said. "So they voted for something reasonable in the last
 JB> elections."

 JB> Describing President Bush as "the most stupid president" in U.S.
 JB> history, al-Masri reached out to the Muslim world and said his group was
 JB> winning the war in Iraq faster than expected due to U.S. policies.

 JB> Since the war started in March 2003, 2,845 members of the U.S. military
 JB> have died, according to an Associated Press count.

 JB> The Iraqi army also said it captured the Egyptian leader of an al- Qaida
 JB> cell in restive Anbar province.

 JB> Acting on a tip, Iraqi soldiers descended on a building in the city of
 JB> Rawah, 175 miles northwest of Baghdad, where they arrested local al-
 JB> Qaida commander Abu Muhayyam al-Masri, whose name, like that of the
 JB> group's overall leader, is a pseudonym meaning, "the Egyptian," a
 JB> Defense Ministry official said.

 JB> Two aides, Abu Issam al-Libi, or "the Libyan," and Abu Zaid al-Suri,
 JB> "the Syrian," also were arrested, along with nine other members of the
 JB> cell, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he
 JB> was not authorized to talk to the media.

 JB> The pseudonyms appeared to mark the men as foreign fighters, thousands
 JB> of whom are said by Iraq's government to have crossed the porous border
 JB> with Syria about 55 miles west of Rawah to join the insurgency. Their
 JB> nationalities were not confirmed.

 JB> The official said al-Suri confessed to organizing at least one suicide
 JB> bombing in Baghdad. He said the raid also netted a large quantity of
 JB> weapons.

 JB> Rawah lies deep in Anbar province, where Sunni Arab insurgents routinely
 JB> launch deadly attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces that show no sign of
 JB> diminishing in numbers or intensity, more than three years after the
 JB> U.S. invasion.

 JB> At least 11 of the American deaths in November have been in Anbar,
 JB> including a Marine who died Thursday from wound suffered in fighting
 JB> there.

 JB> A roadside bomb also killed two American soldiers and wounded another
 JB> Thursday in western Baghdad, the U.S. command said. Another soldier was
 JB> killed and one wounded by a roadside bomb that struck their truck
 JB> Thursday during a combat logistics patrol west of Haditha, 140 miles
 JB> northwest of the capital.

 JB> In other violence, six Iraqi soldiers were killed and 10 wounded when a
 JB> suicide bomber drove his explosives-rigged car into an army checkpoint
 JB> in the northern city of Tal Afar, the military said.

 JB> Army spokesman Brig. Najim Abdullah said the car stopped after soldiers
 JB> opened fire as it sped toward the checkpoint. The unit's commander, who
 JB> was among those killed, then led a group of soldiers toward it, when the
 JB> driver, apparently faking death, detonated the explosives, Abdullah
 JB> said.

 JB> Tal Afar has suffered frequent insurgent attacks, despite President
 JB> Bush's declaration in March that the city was an example of progress
 JB> made in bringing security to Iraq. Tal Afar lies 93 miles east of the
 JB> Syrian border and 260 miles northwest of Baghdad.

 JB> Three members of a family were killed by gunmen who stormed their home
 JB> near Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, police said.

 JB> At least 33 bodies also were found in Baghdad and several nearby cities,
 JB> morgue officials said.

 JB> The new deaths came a day after Iraqi Health Minister Ali al-Shemari
 JB> estimated 150,000 civilians have been killed in the war _ about three
 JB> times previously accepted estimates.

 JB> In comments to the AP during a visit to Austria, al-Shemari said he
 JB> based his figure on an estimate of 100 bodies per day brought to morgues
 JB> and hospitals _ although such a calculation would come out closer to
 JB> 130,000 in total.

 JB> "It is an estimate," al-Shemari said.

 JB> Hassan Salem, of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq,
 JB> or SCIRI, said the 150,000 figure included civilians and police, as well
 JB> as those who were abducted, killed and whose bodies were brought to
 JB> morgues run by the Health Ministry. SCIRI is Iraq's largest Shiite
 JB> political organization and holds the largest number of seats in
 JB> parliament.

 JB> No official account for Iraq deaths in the post-invasion conflict has
 JB> ever been available. Accurate figures are difficult to establish because
 JB> police and hospitals often give widely conflicting tolls of those killed
 JB> in major bombings. Death figures also are reported through multiple
 JB> channels by government agencies that function with varying efficiency.

 JB> A member of the movement of radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada
 JB> al-Sadr, al-Shemari also repeated the Shiite-dominated government's
 JB> demands for a speedier U.S. transfer of authority to Iraqi forces and
 JB> the withdrawal of U.S. troops to their bases, away from Iraq's cities
 JB> and towns.

 JB> "The army of America didn't do its job. ... They tie the hands of my
 JB> government," al-Shemari said. presence in Iraq.


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