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2007-07-14 Iraq

Insurgents Really After Iranians, U.S. Just Gets In the Way

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Posted by Bobby 2007-07-14 08:26|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Hard to say which is sadder - that Abu believes this dreck, that the Wapo reporters and editors believe this dreck, or that the faithful wapo readers (including those inside the beltway) believe this dreck...

Posted by Sheresing Big Foot5609 2007-07-14 09:57|| 2007-07-14 09:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Taquia rules!

Posted by gromgoru 2007-07-14 10:40|| 2007-07-14 10:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Typical chickenshit journalism. Must be nice to sit in a hotel having a smoke (obviously the reporter is a smoker) and listening to drivel from some guy who is your sworn enemy. This is what I call treason - giving the enemy hospitality without mentioning it to the military. But of course, this is par for the course with WaPo and NYT. Glad to see them both getting financial beatings. Couldn't happen to a nicer group of leaches.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-07-14 10:57|| 2007-07-14 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't buy it.
Is a set piece for WaPo by some source....
Anybody that was really head of the Omar Brigade would not live long bragging about it. Somebody would over hear him and tell somebody else who would end the story one way or another.

It may be a test to see how gullible WaPo is.

Posted by 3dc 2007-07-14 11:45|| 2007-07-14 11:45|| Front Page Top

#5 A real journalist just reports. My belief is that this jounalist is attempting to provide information that backs the idea that the US is causing unnecessary violence in Iraq by our presence. The actual idea that is conveyed by this article to any reader who has a combined SAT score above 850 is that we need to kill Abu Sarhan and all his friends post haste as a public service despite that he thought Dallas was a good show and thinks that Orange Julius is a tasty snack.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-07-14 12:30|| 2007-07-14 12:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Agreed, 3dc. Al Qaeda uses the media as the key front in their war with the West. Placing this interview is as important to them as getting a couple of men into commercial jet pilot training. Abu Sarhan wouldn't have made it down the street alive if he'd done such an interview on his own, but after the Washington Post had negotiated with his management? The article says the man is connected: multiple sadistic murderer, officer in Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen... the reporter's translator, with whom his paper (or CNN) likely worked in the Saddam Hussein days, probably set it up.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-14 15:21|| 2007-07-14 15:21|| Front Page Top

#7 This story is such BS. All AQ and Iran is trying to do is deflect some of that spot lite we have placed on their coordination of chaos in Iraq. The Radical Sunni and Radical Shia don't attack each other or even suicide bomb each others leadership, they kill each others moderates or fence sitters forcing those left into joining the others radical org. End result is not a war between the two Radical groups but just doing each others dirty work (killing moderates swaying fence sitters) while swelling the ranks out of fear. How many times have you heard of Sadr barley escaping a Suicide bomber from AQ or vice versa? Don't think they know were each other hang out? right, but you do somehow hear of AQ hitting Salvation Council or Political leaders or Sadr just killing random Sunni's not Radical Sunnis just your average market goer.

As far as Iran goes I will believe they are at war with AQ the day we get the report about Iran turning over the near 1/2 of AQ top leadership including Bin Ladens son/heir to the US forces. Ohh AP somehow didn't think to mention that fact about Iran sheltering 1/2 of AQ top leadership in supposedly "house arrest". Yeah that sounds the actions of some real enemies right their risk the American military wrath over some group of guys that are your enemies.

Posted by C-Low 2007-07-14 16:30|| 2007-07-14 16:30|| Front Page Top

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