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2008-06-06 Iraq

Al-Qaeda defeat coincides with political season

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 Compare wid NEW REPUBLIC MAGZ > THE JIHADIST REVOLUTION AGZ BIN LADEN; + COUNTERRORISM BLOG > HOW TO MEASURE AL QAEDA'S "DEFEAT"?

OTOH, also from TOPIX > TERRORISM AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: THE GREATEST THREAT TO US NATIONAL SECURITY {Mil Radicalists-Terrorists wid Nukes-WMDS], + AMERICAN CHRONICLE > THE [coming/looming]COLLAPSE OF US CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-06 00:36|| 2008-06-06 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 OOPSIES, forgot to add STAR-N-STRIPES OP-ED > ECONOMISTS FORESEE A VICIOUS CYCLE OF INFLATION IN THE US.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-06 00:38|| 2008-06-06 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 google the author...

My friend Ali Ettefagh, an Iranian businessman, sends me outrageous jokes and parodies he finds on the Internet. In recent weeks, as the U.S.-Iranian nuclear showdown escalated, he was sending pictures of luxury apartments and shopping centers in Iran, and investment plans for developing the Iranian economy -- so that I wouldn't think Iran's firebrand president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was the country's only voice. I asked him this week what Iranians thought about meeting with the Great Satan. It was "the talk of the town," he said. Iranians were tired of the "war of nerves," he explained, "and the uncertainty of whether they will bombed by this weekend!" Americans would probably express similar sentiments.

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-06 00:43|| 2008-06-06 00:43|| Front Page Top

#4 It's hardly news that AQ like all terrorist organizations is also a criminal enterprise. How else are they going to get funds? Launch an IPO.

What makes them terrorists is criminality is merely a means to an end (killing and overthrow of the state) unlike your run of the mill crims.

Posted by phil_b 2008-06-06 06:39|| 2008-06-06 06:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Author of article confuses Al Q with Taliban.

The latter gets money primarily from drug money.

The former has money from many sources, including potemkin businesses which work for the security services of Syria and Saudi Arabia among others, blackmail/extortion from individuals and a small percentage of drug money.

Posted by mhw 2008-06-06 08:46|| 2008-06-06 08:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Only someone named Ali would try this hard to convince us that Al-Queer is no threat at all the Americans and that the boogey-man of Islamic Extremism doesn't exist.

Nice try shitbag, go back to dearborn and yodel from a minaret if you like, but I think we've killed a couple hundred thousand people who would gladly end their own life to take a few of us with them if they could.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-06-06 09:31|| 2008-06-06 09:31|| Front Page Top

#7 If the defeat coincides with the political season it's because the Surge was designed to kill the insurgency before a new President came into power so that any pull-out would be less frantic. Sometimes things work that way. In this case the surge succeeded giving McCain at least a bit of a chance.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-06-06 16:01|| 2008-06-06 16:01|| Front Page Top

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