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2005-03-14 Terror Networks & Islam

Strategypage: Survival of the Most Dangerous

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Posted by Greenpeace 2005-03-14 6:33:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A few of these fellows could be extremely dangerous.

Yes, indeed, but to whom? The odds are against them getting across the border into the U.S., and anyway they'd want to recuperate in the loving arms of family and friends before taking up the struggle again. That strongly suggests they'd go back to their home countries in Europe and the Middle East, to be a threat to peace and prosperity there.

So now there are significantly fewer bad guyz, but the ones that remain are concentrated evil. I think we've done our bit by thinning the herd; it's up to the security forces in Europe and the Middle East to take out the remaining killers they coddled all these years.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-14 1:18:11 PM|| 2005-03-14 1:18:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 TW, I'd love to see some statistics on how many bad guyz we've killed in Iraq and I'm also eager to get the trials started for all of these Baathist thugs. I guess quantifying dead bad guys is a bit morbid. Here's why. I'm a firefighter and my crew feels we are not doing enough damage to the bad guyz. These guys are not intellectuals and have a hard time grasping political, cultural and social victories, they're out for blood. Any websites, links or info you've come across that speculates on this?

any help would be appreciated.

Brian

Posted by Rightwing 2005-03-14 3:41:34 PM|| 2005-03-14 3:41:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Brian, I am quite certain it is over 15,000 killed in Iraq alone... in fact that may have been the recent conquest of Fallujah alone. A search of the Rantburg archives should give us a better idea. Trials should be starting pretty soon for the big names... the Iraqi (Saddam era leftovers) judges have been letting the small fry off with wrist slaps, I'm afraid.

Fred, any chance of setting up a tally board? After you've recovered from your latest work project, I mean.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-14 4:52:24 PM|| 2005-03-14 4:52:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Brian, here's a link from my peek into the archives, from a search of "Iraq killed"

Some of the terrorists are foreigners. But only about ten percent of the terrorists killed are al Qaeda, the rest are pro-Saddam or pro-Sunni Arab domination. Based on information posted on al Qaeda web sites (praising individual "martyrs" who died in Iraq), some 60 percent of the al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia. Another ten percent are from Syria, seven percent from Kuwait, about 15 percent from many other Moslem nations, and eight percent from Iraq. Over twenty al Qaeda members are being killed a month in Iraq, and many more captured. Those captives admit that their "emir" (leader) is Abu Musab al Zarqawi, but add that Iraqi Sunni Arabs are supplying a lot of technical assistance, equipment and cash. Recent al Qaeda captives have been unhappy with the direction the "war" is taking, because of the large number of Iraqis who are getting killed, and the growing hostility, by Iraqis, against al Qaeda.

Extrapolating from just this one article, if 10% of the terrorists killed are al Qaeda, and over 20 A.Q.s are killed per month, at least 200 terrorists are being killed per month, not counting the massive numbers killed off as Sunni triangle towns like Fallujah are taken care of.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-14 5:30:46 PM|| 2005-03-14 5:30:46 PM|| Front Page Top

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