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2006-09-29 Iraq

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2006-09-29 12:01|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Prolly more like 15,000 dead, let's try to beat that record.

Posted by Clereque Ebberemp1305 2006-09-29 15:20|| 2006-09-29 15:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Headline is misleading.
4,000 is foreign members of AQ. In addition there are thousands of Iraqi killers (many counted as civilians by the press) and foreign fighters not in AQ.

Real number is in the tens of thousands, several million virgins.

Al

Posted by frozen al">frozen al 2006-09-29 15:21|| 2006-09-29 15:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Are they really "insurgents" if they are imported from elsewhere?

Posted by eLarson 2006-09-29 15:55|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-09-29 15:55|| Front Page Top

#4 "We know, because we captured the 'kill book' of a US Marine sniper, and it had 4,000 kills listed in it."

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-09-29 17:55|| 2006-09-29 17:55|| Front Page Top

#5 4,000 sounds about right. One wonders why they publicized the number. Is this supposed to encourage lunatics from all over Arabia to migrate to Iraq to join the jihad ?
I wonder how many returned home after their tour.

Posted by wxjames 2006-09-29 21:00|| 2006-09-29 21:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Are they really "insurgents" if they are imported from elsewhere?

Depends on the paymaster. In fact if UBL AQ is outsourcing, "I question the motive"

They are in Iraq killing people call them whatever you want just get that part right

Posted by JustAsking 2006-09-29 23:53|| 2006-09-29 23:53|| Front Page Top

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