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2007-07-15 Iraq

Al-Qaeda cell leader, 17 suspected bombers captured

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Posted by Fred 2007-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 I hope all this good news makes it into the Iraqi press - and that their's is not like ours.

Posted by Bobby 2007-07-15 07:24|| 2007-07-15 07:24|| Front Page Top

#2 A few more troublemakers are taken out of action yet the insurgents retain the capacity to cause tremendous bloodshed. These small victories have little significance while the Iraqi government fails to get its act together on oil revenue sharing and other issues. Even worse, they are fiddling on vacation again while their country is still burning.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-07-15 08:09|| 2007-07-15 08:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The individual is the alleged security emir of Mosul, operating terrorist cells in the area and maintaining connections to other high-level al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders.
Hmmmm, no name, yet reference to communications with other al Qaeda. He must have been in the yellow pages under insurgent rental.

Posted by wxjames 2007-07-15 10:55|| 2007-07-15 10:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Grumenk, perhaps you can explain to me - as the admin. has not - how things like a national hydrocarbons law will have any (any) impact on security, short or long term. Everything I know about Iraq says otherwise. You think the AQIZ chapter in Mosul, for example, give's a rat's behind about such things? Didn't think so.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-07-15 12:39|| 2007-07-15 12:39|| Front Page Top

#5 WTF does revenue sharing have to do with implementing security in Iraq? is the general idea there that if we spilt the oil proffits into the right palms, the corrupt nature of the little brown folks will make them come to our way of thinking becuase there is more palm greese to be had in a share of the goodies than in taking ove the whole she-bang?

better to be the small fish in the big pond than a big fish in a smaller one?

the whole shebang is futzed-ass backward. the only thing the revenue sharing d0oes is give some state department asswipe something he can hold up and say he has accomplished something with his oxygen stealing existance.

Posted by Abu do you love 2007-07-15 22:45|| 2007-07-15 22:45|| Front Page Top

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