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| Iraq |
| Dead Men Do Tell Tales |
| 2006-05-23 |
| May 23, 2006: The war in Iraq may actually be drawing terrorists away from other targets, as official US claims assert. But this does not necessarily mean that the neglected targets are in the Western. The real objective of Osama bin Laden and other Islamists is the overthrow of the Saudi regime, in order to secure control of the Moslem Holy Places in Mecca and Medina. This would provide the extremists with considerable legitimacy in the Moslem world. The Saudi security forces had kept al Qaeda at bay up until 2003, when the American invasion of Iraq stirred up Islamic radicals world wide. While that led to al Qaeda attacks in Saudi Arabia, many more Saudi Islamic militants went off to Iraq, which was seen as the main battlefield. The Saudi government did little to halt this exodus, although it did pay attention to those who survived and returned. Most did not make it back, instead they were (usually) killed or (in a few cases) captured. This exodus gave the Saudi police a lot fewer terrorists to run down on their own turf. As a result, after two years, al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia was reduced to a small group of fugitives. Al Qaeda was still a dangerous force in Saudi Arabia, but not nearly as lethal as it might have been if so many of its most ardent supporters had not gone off and gotten themselves killed in Iraq. Saudi Arabia was not the only Arab nation to benefit from the carnage in Iraq. An equal number of suicidal Islamic terrorists from other Middle Eastern nations also showed up, usually dead, in Iraq. Their governments back home were glad to see them go, although some of the families complained to the government in an effort to get their sons back. But since these trips were usually made illegally (by going to Syria, where an al Qaeda smuggling operation got them across the border), there was little the government could do except contact Iraqi officials and try to get the bodies back. Often there were only body parts, as many of these volunteers ended up as suicide bombers. American intelligence tried to identify as many of the suicide bombers as possible, including the use of DNA. The intel folks wanted to know where the bombers came from, and who they were. This allowed police back home to look into the dead man's friends and associates. That led to more al Qaeda getting arrested. Dead men do tell tales. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Conversely, the US is missing a bet, here. The US military figured out a while ago that pictures of dead bodies and coffins, no matter of who, or where, or why, always works against the US war effort. This is why they go to such great lengths to control such unexplained media from the American public. However, they have not made use of this phenomenon elsewhere. That is, how many would be inspired to become jihadis if they were deluged with pictures of mangled and dead, fly-covered, bloated bodies of other jihadis, rotting in the gutter? The US should encourage Moslem countries to revel in carnage photography. Let *them* see mass graves, weeping parents who want to bury their son's leg--all that remains of him. Let *them* see their children as hospitalized, crippled and maimed prisoners, all in a futile and senseless massacre. Everywhere they look they should see the horror, misery and death jihad has brought forth, the utter failure of it, and the brutality of the beasts that inflict it on mostly other Moslems. Interspersed with pictures of the war-mongering Mullahs who constantly call for it. The fat and insolent cowards who tell others to charge the guns and be mutilated and die agonizing deaths, while they, the Priests, rest in idle luxury and wealth. The US found during Vietnam how demoralizing such photography can truly be. I say that we share the wealth, and provide them with more 8x10 glossies of goatse-quality grotesquery than all but the heartiest of their stomachs can endure. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-05-23 12:12 |