By Fahd Ibn Farraj Al-Joair Al-Farraj
Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds. And no aggression except on those who transgress all bounds. Peace and prayer be on the most honored of mankind, his family, and his companions.
At the time I saw my people running into the apostate rulers pledging their support and loyalty, I felt it was my duty to renew my dissociation from those apostates and show my enmity and hatred towards them as Allah, the Most High, has made clear to us that oneâs state of Islam is not complete unless he dissociate himself from the enemies of Allah.
When man meditates on the words of his Lord and the practice of the messenger (PBUH), he would have no doubt that the servant of Allah does not become Muslim without satisfying these two conditions: Rejecting Taghut and believing in Allah alone. Believing in Allah must also be based on helping and defending people of Iman (faith), and rejecting and showing enmity and hatred towards the unbelievers and all misguided people.
But anyone who runs into the apostates to renew his loyalty to them, is one from whom and his action we dissociate for his action is characteristic of Hypocrites.
This is Allahâs verdict on anyone who takes for friends Unbelievers rather than Believers. He is one of them and will have the same fate.
Honor can only be sought from Allah by faithfully worshiping Him and Him alone and by joining the community of the believing servants of Allah.
My dissociation from those who renewed their loyalty to the Tyrants, stems from Allahâs words.
Therefore, my dissociation from the Tyrants and all of apostates obligated me to seek friendship and protection with those in whose behalf Allah says:
{Your (real) friends are (no less than) Allah, his messenger, and the Believers,-those who establish regular prayers and pat Zakat and they bow down humbly (in worship). As to those who turn (for friendship) to Allah, His messenger, and the Believers,-it is the party of Allah that must certainly triumph.} 5:55-56
O Muslim brothers! This aya (verse) clearly shows that your friendship and loyalty should not be with The Jews or the Christians or the apostates but it must be with Allah, His messenger, and the Believers. Therefore, he who chose Allah and His messenger as friends will prosper in this life and in the hereafter.
O my peopleâs youth! Allah...Allah- I rouse you and invite you to come to the aid of your religion and to protect your Aqeedah, and support and join the Mujahideen, especially in the Arabian Peninsula for you Aqeedah compels you to do so.
O Muslim brothers! Beware of Satan and do not let him through fear into your hearts. Your life is in the Hands of Allah. What ever happened to you was not going to miss you and whatever missed you was not going to hit you.
O Muslim brothers! It is your duty to extend a helping hand to the Mujahideen and support them with your goods, persons, hands, and tongues.
Our dissociation from the current rulers is based on the following:
⢠Backing up the unbelievers as clearly seen by their stance towards the cross worshippers.
⢠Backing up the pagans as seen by their protection of the âRafidhahâ (the Shiah) in Madinah.
⢠Governing by man-made laws instead of the Shariah of Allah.
⢠Their war against Islam and people of Islam. There you see how they changed school curricula, manipulated media, and made mockery of your religion. Elevating sectarian advocates and wicked individuals to influential positions is the best evidence against them.
â¢Fighting Mujahideen, amongst them, are your sons and relatives. They have spilled so much blood,- such as, Hamoud Al-Jouair, Sultan Ibn Saad Al-Abeed, Ibrahim Ibn Abdul Aziz Al-Shayea, Abdul Rahman Ibn Dakheel Al-Faleh, may Allah accepts them as martyrs. Do we let the blood of those be spilled unanswered? Their only crime (in the eyes of the apostate rulers) was that they wanted to worship Allah alone.
⢠Prisons and jails are now full of righteous scholars and Mujahideen.
You must get up and stand as one man to defend this religion (Islam) and you must not get distracted by minor issues. Your religion is being dishonored, your wealth is being embezzled, and your blood is being spilled. What is left that is worth keeping? I swear by Allah that the inside (under the surface) of the earth is better for you than the surface.
As to the deployment of security forces into your towns, they only came to fight Islam and true Muslims as well as chasing Mujahideen. So wake up and shake off the dust that is covering you because you will not be excused before Allah on the Day of Judgment. Waste no time to dissociate yourself from those apostates and be first to help and protect your religion.
Allah knows best. Peace and prayer be on our prophet, Muhammad, his family, and his companions.
Fahd Ibn Farraj Al-Joair Al-Farraj
One of Saudi Arabiaâs Most Wanted Mujahideen
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'scuse me Fahd, but did you have permission to speak? No. That's right...now back down on all fours - just like last time but this time more squealing. What's that? What's your motivation? You been hangin' out with Reiner for too long... I got yer motivation right here. Hey....anyone ever tell you that you've got a purdy mouth?
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I have kidnapped my neighbors pig named allah, unless all arabs leave the arabian peninsula withing 2-1/2 hours he will be executed.
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Another one drunk on words instead of deeds. "Come join me, and let us be killed as a mob together, O my inbred Saudi brothers! Only thus will those who stay behind be taught that Allah's will is that Islam shall become a religion of peace, whether we will or no!"
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Fahd Ibn Farraj Al-Joair Al-Farraj..... OK, I think the real problem lies in his true identity. He is spawn of Satan and a Jin-worshipper as well. Since he is a spawn of Satan, his last name is spelled backwards, so lets get the record straight. His last name is Al-Jarraf aka the giraffe. There... now that its clear to everyone, and that Satan likes to ride his pet Jarraf while spewing his lies and hate to promote injustice and evil among the true belivers.
MANAMA â Family members of five Saudi Guantanamo detainees met here yesterday two US lawyers representing the detainees. The meeting is part of the lawyersâ preparations to meet their âclientsâ for the first time, possibly as early as the first week of August. Lawyers Anant P. Raut and Connie Ericson from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a New York-based law firm, described their five-day visit as an attempt to get to know their clients and build bridges of confidence between them, the detainees they are representing and their families.
Raut said that none of their five clients had been charged with anything and that they were being held on what is called âinformation returnâ â which is secret information the government holds. âOur judge gave the government six months to turn this information over to us so we do not expect to know what the charges are before October,â he said. Raut and Ericson are part of more than 400 US lawyers representing the detainees on Pro Bono bases and both had lived through the terror of the Sept. 11 attacks and yet believe that the detainees deserve to have the right to defend themselves in court.
"Al-Rubbish"? We've got a terr named "al-Rubbish"? How... apt.
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What? No more ambulances to chase in New York?
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There's warrants out for half the families. But the big laugh is that they're doing this pro bono.
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Saudi families= deep pockets= ambulance chasers.
Raut defended their efforts to look after the detainees pointing out that they are not supporting terrorists but giving people the chance to challenge assumptions that they were terrorists because of their color of skin or origin.
Oh spot on, I'm sure our American Troops, Bushitler, and Condi are obsessed with skin color.
OTOH...Origin, they might be on to something there, weren't they sized in the Global fight against terror.
Manges?
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Mrs. Davis,
Pro Bono, the first visit may be "free".
Federal suits and fees will follow on, afterll they are attorneys.
/don't get any Mange around me.
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You would never hear of one of these slimebags defending a U.S. soldier, or a conservative activist for free. What the hell do these idiots want? To get them released? So they can go back and tell all the other dune loons what dumbfucks we are?
Capt. Renault: âAnd what in heavenâs name brought you to Casablanca?â
Rick âMy health. I came here for the waters.â
Renault: âWaters? What waters? We are in the middle of the desert.â
Rick âI was misinformed.â
#8
There's virtually no difference between Saudi terrorist and American lawyers, except that the Americans don't wear long robes or speak Arabic...yet.
(Wonder how many of the lawyers are the "sons of monkeys and pigs," i.e. Jews.)
#9
Probably not as many as there used to be, Jennie. Bright kids nowadays go for MDs, PhDs, or MBAs. The lawyers chase ambulances because there is too much competition for limited opportunities -- I remember hearing a good many years ago that most lawyers have about the same income as taxi drivers.
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I think the answer to why the lawyers do this for free, is it gets them publicity that money can't buy. At heart the problem is the MSM focusing on Gitmo trivialities and making out like they are real news.
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Regrettably, this is only the tip of the iceberg. This is a concerted effort that includes not only these lawyers, but lawyers from several other law firms. I believe lawyers from Clifford Chance (world's largest firm) are also involved although not cited here.
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A wanted militant whose name has appeared on a list of 36 terror suspects surrendered to Saudi security authorities yesterday amid press reports three others on the same list had died in Iraq. The Interior Ministry confirmed that Fayez Ibrahim Ayub, who is No. 29 on the list, had surrendered to authorities after returning from abroad yesterday âto explain his true position,â the Saudi Press Agency quoted a ministry official as saying. The official said Ayubâs family would be allowed to meet him and his surrender would be taken into consideration while looking into his case. âNormal measures will be taken to ascertain his position,â he added.
Press reports, meanwhile, said three men on the list â Saudi Faris Abdullah Al-Dhahiry Al-Harbi, Chadian Noor Mohamed Moussa and Saudi Ali Mater Al-Osaimi â had been killed fighting alongside insurgents in Iraq. Al-Harbi is reported to have died in a suicide operation in November last year. The Saudi government has not yet confirmed the reports.
Also yesterday, one of the imams of the Grand Mosque in Makkah called upon terrorists in the Kingdom to surrender to authorities and repent for their mistakes in order to end the bloodbath among Muslims. Delivering his Friday sermon, Sheikh Saleh ibn Mohamed Al-Taleb expressed deep sorrow over the killings of Muslims in the land of the two holy mosques. âIs it not time to end this bloodbath?â he asked.
The imam was apparently referring to the recent murder of Lt. Col. Mubarak Al-Sawat, a top investigation officer in Makkah, and other terrorist attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda militants. âWe appeal to those who have broken away from the true Islamic group to return and those who made mistakes to repent and surrender to authorities in order to clear away the suspicions surrounding them,â Al-Taleb said. The imam said he hoped Saudi authorities would look into the cases of those who surrender âwith understanding, wisdom and mercy.â
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Hmmm, so three others on the list died in Iraq??? Well I bet that gets played up in the press.
You know, for it to be an INSURGENCY in a country, shouldn't most of those fighting be FROM the country in which the fighting is occurring? How can you have a revolt when most of the fighters are foreign and killing citizens of the country they are trying to free from occupation?
I was in Iraq a year ago and was told most of the people we were killing were either Iranian, Saudi or Syrian.
I want to scream every time I hear one of those freaking communists in our media refer to it as an insurgency. IT IS NOT AN INSURGENCY!!! It is not civil war, it is TERRORISM.
via JihadWatch
A Palestinian-American student accused of planning to engage in terrorist activities waived his right to a court hearing. Arwah Jaber of Fayetteville, Ark., is charged with planning to travel to the West Bank to engage in jihad against Israel. His attorney announced the waiver Tuesday.
Explaining to a professor why he couldn't graduate on time, Jaber wrote, "I decided to take an honorable job in Palestine with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Organization to pursue a more noble cause freedom, justice and peace for the Palestinians and to fight the Israeli terrorism." Jaber was born in the West Bank town of Yamoun and attended Pittsburg State University in Kansas and Georgetown University before enrolling in doctoral studies at the University of Arkansas.
If convicted of offering support to a foreign terrorist organization, he could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison and fined up to $250,000.
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ship his naive ass over, sans passport - permanently
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Georgetown University, hmmmmm.....
oh how the Jesuits have fallen to produce this kind of thinking - Palestinian Islamic Jihad=honorable....
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I think you guy are being a bit to harsh on the lad, take him out about about 250 miles, east of the Jersey shore, and let him take a leisurely swim back to Palestine.
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Why should we seriously spend another dime of our taxes on this dreamer? Deport him to Palestine before anyone gets wind of it and drop him off at an Israeli checkpoint with a suspicious bulky item permanantly strapped to his body underneath his clothes... then pour a cup of ants down his pants, honk several times, and speed off giving the middle finger to the Israeli guards. One... it will save us money in the long run, two it help our dear student achieve his goal, it will give the media more crap to fill the screens with... hmmmm... there is enuf of that. Maybe we should just lock him up in USP Atlanta.
Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot by suspected drug smugglers on Thursday afternoon near Nogales but were expected to survive, authorities said. Border Patrol spokesman Jose Garza said the agents were "ambushed" about 12:30 p.m. near Arizona 82 and Dusquene Road. Both were shot in the leg and hospitalized in "stable" condition in Tucson late Thursday.
The agents were tracking a group of suspected drug smugglers near the U.S.-Mexican border, said Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada. Investigators believe the suspected smugglers fired on the agents as they approached and then fled back to Mexico, Estrada said. No suspects have been arrested in the shooting, which is under investigation by the FBI.
Since Oct. 1, the start of the fiscal year, the Border Patrol has recorded 196 assaults on agents, including 24 shootings. In the same time last year, 92 assaults were reported, and only five were shootings, Garza said.
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...EVERY time this happens, close the border until the Mexicans hand over the bad guys. After it happens two or three times, the Mexicans will get the idea.
Mike
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It depends what they were shot with. If it was a pistol, I would be suspicious, but if it was a rifle, it is a common novice mistake to shoot low when you jerk the trigger, rather than use a smooth motion, especially if you are in a prone position.
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Just one more reason to put the military on the border, with orders to shoot anyone that doesn't come through a designated crossing point. The border region of Mexico is becoming so lawless that sane people stay away. American citizens are being kidnapped and murdered, many women have been raped, and thievery is rampant. Shut the border, and when Mexico squeals, cut off all cash transfers south. It'll take about three months for the government to collapse. We'll be glad to help anyone willing to set up a truly Republican form of government with legitimate voting laws and guaranteed freedoms. The current serf/master relationship that's been prevelant for the last 200 years needs to be broken COMPLETELY, not the half-assed measures taken to date.
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They only way to cause a Mexican revolution is to shut off the safety valve and cash flow they have with all the illegals they send north.
Until the US closes the border and properly documents all who cross it, Mexico, like an alcoholic, will not even recognize it has a problem, much less do anything about it.
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I concur wholeheartedly w/OP & OS. Unfortunately it seems the vast majority of our elected officials do not have the intestinal fortitude to do the right thing wrt Mexico. Which is seal the border. Big business likes cheap labor, dems like illegal votes, match made in hell.
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Like we said last week (or earlier this week), this is Bush's achille's heel. The average American is really getting ticked about this in my book. He needs to move on shutting the border down and quick. Since the Reserves are being drawn down in Iraq, use them. Heck, the volunteer "vigilantes" will work for free down there. I for one would like to see a Ron Paul/Tancredo ticket for 2008.
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put ANG troops on the border and don't shoot the legs.
#1
There has been a lot of speculation regarding the fate of the recon team having fallen into the hands of the taliban and all of the horrors that possibility denotes. I have it on what I consider to be good authority that this did NOT happen. I will go no further than that at this time. The taliban "spokesman" also said that they videotaped the helo being struck by the rocket and its subsequent crash. Even if that is true, I don't see that video tape making it very far from where it was filmed. There are something like 1000+ Marines in the area and I'm confident that those Devil Dogs won't be letting anything out of that province alive.
I hope this comes to pass, make the a**holes pay dearly even the one who got of the lucky shot.
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no prisoners
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Its not the Marines the Talis ahve to worry about. Its the company of Rangers that immediately dropped into the area.
When the Seals get stuck, they call the Rangers.
And like I told you guys, you'd be amazed at how much is being poured into geting that team out. I just got back from a government customer's installation (yes even on a 3 day government holiday weekend), and there are lots of contractors working "uncompensated overtime" (most of us veterans) shoulder to shoulder with govvies and uniformed personnel to get this right.
Things like this gnaw at me (and the other "Old Goats" at the government site). Too old anymore to get a rifle, ruck & rope, and go out and DO something. So we do what we can. I pray we do enough and what we do works, so the Young and the Bold can come home.
Hundreds of Afghan troops raided a Taliban hide-out in the mountains of central Afghanistan and 18 rebels and two soldiers were killed in fierce fighting, a senior Afghan official said Saturday. Security forces assaulted the rebel camp in Uruzgan province's Charchino district late Friday to flush out the insurgents who have been blamed for a spate of kidnappings and killings across the region, said provincial Gov. Jan Mohammed Khan. The troops were still in the region Saturday searching for about 100 insurgents thought to be there. "There are many Taliban hiding in the mountains. We are hunting them down and we will capture or kill them," Khan told The Associated Press. The operation comes after fighting in the region left 25 people dead earlier this week, including nine tribal elders who Taliban rebels kidnapped and then killed, apparently in retaliation for the deaths of their own.
WaPo - reprinted in SFChron Guess where is alledgedly happened. Go ahead...
The U.S. military is investigating an accusation made by Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations that Marines killed his 21-year-old cousin "in cold blood" during a raid last Saturday in a village in the Sunni Muslim- dominated province of Anbar.
In a statement released Friday, Ambassador Samir S.M. Sumaidaie said his cousin Mohammed Al-Sumaidaie had been killed when U.S. Marines and Iraqi army units were conducting joint raids in the town of Haditha.
According to a witness account compiled by the ambassador, 10 Marines searching for weapons knocked on the door of Mohammed's father's house at 10 a. m. Mohammed, described as a "relatively shy" engineering student, "greeted them pleasantly" and led them to his father's bedroom, where the family stored an old rifle filled with blanks, according to the account.
His relatives say they do not know exactly what happened next, but they say several family members, including Mohammad's mother, were gathered in the hallway and heard a thud in the bedroom. Meanwhile, according to Sumaidaie's account, one Marine dragged Mohammed's younger brother, Ali, through the house by his hair and beat him.
The family was asked to wait on the porch while the Marines continued searching the house for another hour, the account said. When they finished, an interpreter for the Marines asked Mohammed's mother in Arabic whether it was her son in the bedroom. The account said he told her, "They killed him!"
"In the bedroom, Mohammed was found dead and laying in a clotted pool of his blood," according to the account.
"All indications point to a killing of an unarmed civilian -- a cold- blooded murder," Sumaidaie said in his statement.
A spokesman for the U.S.-led multinational force in Camp Fallujah, in the heart of Iraq's Sunni region, issued a statement saying an inquiry had been started into the incident, noting that the "allegations roughly correspond to an incident involving coalition forces" in the area last Saturday.
The investigation could take several weeks, according to the statement. Oh yeah, open and shut.
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I bet $10 to Fred's tip jar that the fact the gun was filled with blanks will be a key point.
This detail would lead one a normal, non hysterical person to quickly assume that it was probably something to do with the marines getting a rifle pointed at them and they shot him. But the WAPO and SFCron are eager to tank their circulation with worthless reporting so they can put themseleves out of their misery.
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yawn!
Is there anybody who doesn't think this is just too pat a story? They did leave out kicking the kittens and stomping on the flowers as they left. Any mention of why they went there in the first place?......hmmmm
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Why is this mother-@#$%^&-er still ambassador!
Obviously he is a Saddam-Sunni.
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Running as a top story on NPR. Anyone listening would "know" that the US Marines are of course guilty of murdering an innocent. They also run another story claiming that an interpreter was killed by a US sniper.
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GC,
I believe Iraq's prewar UN ambassador was an Al-Douri. Here is the UN bio for Al-Sumaidaie: Mr. Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida'ie was appointed Iraqâs Permanent Representative to the United Nations in July 2004. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Sumaida'ie served as the Minister of Interior in Baghdad. In this capacity he managed a domestic security force of over 120,000 and made considerable progress in reorganizing and modernizing the Ministryâs operations. In addition, Ambassador Sumaida'ie served as a member of Governing Council (GC) in Iraq. In the GC, he was Chairman of the Media Committee. He played an integral role in the founding of the Iraqi Telecoms and Media Commission and the Public Broadcasting Institution. He also held positions on the Security, Finance, and Foreign Relations Committees.
Prior to the removal of the Baathist regime, Ambassador Sumaida'ie was actively involved in opposition efforts in the United Kingdom and attended a number of high-level conferences throughout the world. As founding member of the Association of Iraqi Democrats and the Democratic Party of Iraq, he is widely renowned as an expert on the political climate in Iraq. ...
Unless Jr. went for a gun, this is bad news. The Al-Sumaidaie clan are the big cheese in Haditha. The ambassador has been supportive of our efforts and had been trying to get other Sunnis to play ball.
Doesn't sound like Mohammed was shot. One of the Marines probably hit him hard enough to kill him.
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That's just one unnecessary detail too many.
Ima think 2b maybe a cop.
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Since some folks in RB were kind enough to share sites that explained Taqqiya and Kitman to me, I think one must always start from a premise of bullshit when dealing with Muslims. An evangelical religion, whose tenants and doctrine openly speak of forced conversion and dominion over the world, and whick advocated lies as utterly consistent with the advancement of their faith, what else can one think?
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...which...
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It's looking bad. He was shot in the neck, but the above story did not indicate a gunshot. Could the shot have been muffled with a towel or pillow? If so, that would point toward murder. This very well connected family was very supportive of the invasion. That Marine squad better have a damn good explanation. U.S. Marines Accused of Killing Iraq Man
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Interesting. Until the investigation is done everything is just conjecture. Was the interpreter the last one to see the kid alive? Was the interpreter the last one in the room after that squad left? It's a known fact that Interpreter's are somtimes paid off by both sides. Just a thought.
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I'm with Jarhead on this one. Let's see what the investigation shows. Bad news if they did it, but if interpreters are paid off by both sides, it could've been a tribal/local fight to off some of the big dogs in town (by the interpreter?).
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I'm sorry, I just not buying any of this story.
#1, this took place in a war zone.
Hell-ooooo. In a war zone, people get killed, particularly when it's in a Sunni-dominated area.
Why should this man's son be the exception?
Are the Iraqis now going to have the U.S. military investigate every Marine that kills a bad guy (whether they are or not) over there?
I'm giving our guys the benefit of the doubt, that if they shot this man, they had damn good reason to do so.
Notice they also accuse the Marines of beating a guy up: doesn't sound like our Marines to me!
Even if we made a mistake and killed a good guy by mistake, that's what happens in wartime.
I think this UN ambassador has let all that special treatment he gets in NYC at the UN whorehouse go to his head and thinks he and his family are "special."
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Suuuure, just an old antique rifle loaded with blanks. The boy was pure as driven snow! Blanks?!?! My B.S. meter is pegged.
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The ex-Interior Minister and head Mukhbarat thug. Sounds like they mainly wanted him out of the country. The UN gabfest is a good spot - he's not going anywhere, and he can't do anything.
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We've seen lots of photos of soldiers with little video cameras on their helmets. It could be veeeery interesting if that were the case this time. Taking Jarhead's contribution into account, I must say I look forward to hearing the final report. And I have to wonder that a wily survivor of the Baathist regime would launch such an attack on those who currently hold power back home. Or has the ambassador been told less than the entire truth, too?
WaPo - reprinted in SF Chron
A suicide bomber killed 20 people waiting outside a police recruiting center in Iraq's capital today, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
The attacker wore an explosives-laden belt and blew himself up outside the recruiting center in west Baghdad's Yarmouk neighborhood, said police Col. Adnan Abdul Rahman, an Interior Ministry spokesman. Most of those killed were recruits, he said.
On Friday, gunmen assassinated an aide to Iraq's most prominent Shiite Muslim cleric on a street in central Baghdad, according to Iraqi security officials.
In the face of this and other sectarian attacks, Muslim preachers used sermons at Friday mosque services to call for an end to violence.
Police said Kamal Ezz al-Deen al-Ghuraifi, a Baghdad representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, had been gunned down on his way to Friday prayers at al-Doreen Mosque on Haifa Street, a dangerous neighborhood where Iraqi and U.S. officials say order is gradually being restored by Iraqi security forces. Two of al-Ghuraifi's bodyguards also were killed, according to a spokesman at al-Sistani's headquarters in Najaf, the Shiite holy city 90 miles south of Baghdad.
"We cannot protect every scholar of Sistani. They number in the thousands, " the spokesman said. "We accuse the extremists. This is not the first time they have targeted a Sistani scholar."
Conflict between Iraq's majority Shiites and the Sunni Arab minority that wielded power until the fall of President Saddam Hussein in 2003 has flared since al-Jaafari's Shiite-led government was formed in April.
The country's nearly 2-year-old insurgency, which is driven by Sunni religious radicals and secular Sunnis loyal to Hussein, has included assassinations of political and religious leaders in the Shiite community as well as bomb attacks on Shiite neighborhoods. Sunni leaders have accused the Shiite-dominated security forces of using security crackdowns to settle sectarian scores.
Since mid-June, Shiites have suffered the brunt of the violence.
"The sectarian war is escalating, and the objective is to draw the Shiites into civil war," warned Jalal Eddin al-Sagheer, a Shiite cleric, in his Friday sermon at Baghdad's Buratha Mosque. He urged listeners not to use violence, because "if catastrophe struck, it would devastate everything. No one will benefit from it except the enemies of Iraq."
A mortar attack sparked a fire Friday that forced authorities to shut down a Baghdad water plant, leaving millions of Iraqis with dry taps in 100- degree heat, Iraqi officials said.
Just a day earlier, the mayor of the capital threatened to quit because of mounting infrastructure problems -- including a lack of clean drinking water. Baghdad's estimated 6.5 million people face frequent electricity outages, erratic fuel supplies, congested traffic, diminished public services and the ever-present threat of kidnappings and car bombings.
The blaze at a power station north of Baghdad cut off electricity to a water plant serving northern and western parts of the capital, officials said. The fire halted all distribution from the waterworks, and project director Jassim Muhammad said repairs could take three days.
A U.S. spokesman for Task Force Baghdad, Master Sgt. Greg Kaufman, said later that unexploded ordnance had been found in the area but that "we're still not sure" what had started the fire.
U.S. and Iraqi military forces continued to try to drive insurgents out of towns in western Iraq. About 1,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors and 100 Iraqi troops conducted a fourth day of search operations in the town of Hit, about 95 miles northwest of Baghdad. The Marines said in a statement that the push, called Operation Sword, was meeting little resistance.
QUETTA: Suspected tribal assailants fired four rockets and assault rifles at a paramilitary base in Kohlu, a tribal town east of Quetta, on Thursday damaging walls and shattering windows, an official said. No one was hurt in the dawn attack, said Lt Col Rizwan Malik, a spokesman for the Frontier Constabulary troops. Several perimeter walls were damaged in the volley of rocket fire. The assailants then opened fired with assault rifles and machine-guns, sending a hail of bullets smashing into office windows and walls inside the base, Col Malik said. The troops returned fire, but it was not known whether there were any casualties among the attackers, who fled into the mountains, he added.
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KABUL: Five Pakistanis suspected of planning attacks in Afghanistan's south have been arrested, said Afghan police on Thursday. Provincial police chief Alah Yar said the men had crossed from Pakistan into Zabul and were arrested on Wednesday while travelling by bus to Kandahar. They were seized on a tip-off from US-led forces who had them under surveillance, said Shahr-e-Safa police chief Ghulam Mohammed Aka. "The five have confessed that they were commissioned and given money for bombing in Afghanistan by a Pakistani, Mullah Tahir," he said, adding that the Pakistanis had been handed over to coalition forces for further interrogation.
Gosh, I wonder which of the banned terrorist organizations they belong to?
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A propaganda video purportedly made by al-Qaida-linked terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi shows suicide attacks against U.S. soldiers and Iraqi forces and emphasizes that the war being waged by Iraqi insurgents is in retaliation for America's war against Islam. "The American soldier is a coward and an easy target for the holy fighters," says a speaker said to be al-Zarqawi, on the undated video, posted on militant Web sites Wednesday.
The 46-minute video opens with old footage of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden walking in a mountainous area before moving to clips of suicide operations across Iraq. The authenticity of the voice couldn't be immediately verified, but the recording sounded similar to al-Zarqawi's previous audio tapes. The voice said the March 2003 war against Iraq "was unjust war by the head of infidelity, America." He called President Bush an "idiot" for announcing an end to major hostilities in May 2003, saying the war "has just started." "Jihad (holy war) is for God's word to prevail" and that's why "the blood of Muslims in Iraq has mixed with that of their brothers from Muslim countries," the speaker said in reference to other Arabs who have gone to Iraq to join the insurgency.
The video shows clips of suicide attacks on American soldiers and Iraqi forces in Baghdad, Mosul, Talafar, Nasseriya, Youssefiya and several other Iraqi locations. It also shows groups of suicide bombers, laughing with many weapons lying nearby. The video showed multiple images of burning Humvees and police cars, explosions at the United Nations headquarters in Iraq and buildings on fire with heavy, black smoke. Sounds of gunfire are interspersed with poetry praising heroism and martyrdom.
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"The American soldier is a coward and an easy target for the holy fighters,"
That's rich, coming from assclowns that use women and children for cover.
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The "American soldiers are cowards" stupidity is quickly refuted by the fact that al-Zarqawi is afraid to stand up and fight the Americans. I think Fallujah taught them that was a sure path to suicide. Run and hide behind women and children, conduct suicide attacks with people too dumb to realize what a waste that is, and direct the majority of your attacks against Iraqis, rather than the hated Americans, who will beat your sorry ass to jelly, bad boy. You're scared, and we're going to make you terrified.
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Amerians are cowards.
That's why they hide in caves.
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A great many of the old-style gods had to be placated with rivers of blood. And Allah is clearly a war god as well as a moon god. Not a very successful one in the long run, it appears, but so few of the old-style gods are. ;-)
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Al-Zarqawi... hmmm... he is not even worthy of comment these days. But.. I'll rant anyways.
His reputation for late night encounters with young boys and encouraging his apostate followers to use women and children as shields is well known among the true belivers throughout Iraq. And like most crimminals he mistakens fear as a sign of respect from morally right citizens... but then again he is not a citizen of Iraq, but an outlaw on the one-legged run from Jordan. That is why young boys are brought to him... can't run very fast. But the young belivers that can run away fast are quickly shot down in cold blood. Is this what Allah is about? The unjust destruction and molestation of his miraculous and holy creations?
Apparantly Al-Zarqawi & his sister Bin Ladin have much to giggle about underneath the sheets late at nite with their associates. Male bonding among these spawn of Satan is well known and Allah certainly will deliver his justice in global view to monsters like Al-Zarqawi and his moon worshippers.
If Al-Zarqawi loved Allah more than he hated others, then he would become an inspiration for others and actually strengthen the Muslim community. This is what we call leadership. Al-Zarqawi has no leadership, but he does promote fear, loathing and attracts people who seek a purpose in life... albeit a short one.
To truely follow Allah, one's heart must be cleansed and pure. Al-Zarqawi & Co. has no heart and are infected with self-consuming hate & rage rather than love of Allah and his true belivers.
Al-Zarqawi & Co. are led about on a short leash and a tight collar by Satan & his demons. They do his beackon and call at every whim to spread injustice, evil, lies, manipulation and oppression of the innocent and weak.
Al-Zarqawi & Co. are dividing Iraq and the Muslim community into two halves in a grand scheme by Satan to conquer and weaken Iraq for a dictator and puppet to oppress the true belivers into thinking they have achieved a holy caliphate state of Islamic perfection upon earth.
In reality, this goal is worshipped more than Allah himself, and sought after even more than fully understanding the Quran, and justified because faith is more important than understanding... which leads to control and dictatorship of the masses...
Hey, it worked in midevil Europe under the Popes, so why not under a Satan-puppet like Bin Laden or Al-Zarqawi as his queen?
Al-Zarqawi's days roaming with his pack in Iraq is coming to a close. Yes, he may be around a year or so, but remember and know in your hearts just as God is almighty and just that Al-Zarqawi will encounter justice as God wills it and by whatever means he deems. Down with tyranny and up with truth and freedom!
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MANAMA â Family members of five Saudi Guantanamo detainees met here yesterday two US lawyers representing the detainees. The meeting is part of the lawyersâ preparations to meet their âclientsâ for the first time, possibly as early as the first week of August. Lawyers Anant P. Raut and Connie Ericson from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a New York-based law firm, described their five-day visit as an attempt to get to know their clients and build bridges of confidence between them, the detainees they are representing and their families.
QUETTA: Suspected tribal assailants fired four rockets and assault rifles at a paramilitary base in Kohlu, a tribal town east of Quetta, on Thursday damaging walls and shattering windows, an official said. No one was hurt in the dawn attack, said Lt Col Rizwan Malik, a spokesman for the Frontier Constabulary troops. Several perimeter walls were damaged in the volley of rocket fire. The assailants then opened fired with assault rifles and machine-guns, sending a hail of bullets smashing into office windows and walls inside the base, Col Malik said. The troops returned fire, but it was not known whether there were any casualties among the attackers, who fled into the mountains, he added.
KABUL: Five Pakistanis suspected of planning attacks in Afghanistan's south have been arrested, said Afghan police on Thursday. Provincial police chief Alah Yar said the men had crossed from Pakistan into 
A propaganda video purportedly made by al-Qaida-linked terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi shows suicide attacks against U.S. soldiers and Iraqi forces and emphasizes that the war being waged by Iraqi insurgents is in retaliation for America's war against Islam. "The American soldier is a coward and an easy target for the holy fighters," says a speaker said to be al-Zarqawi, on the undated video, posted on militant Web sites Wednesday.
