Sunday, July 1, 2007

Faces of Evil II or the Al Queda Massacre in Iraq



WHY isn't this reported in the media? Let a Marine come under fire, return fire and hit some innocent civilians and holy hell breaks loose. However, an Al Qaida massacre is ignored.

Michael Yon writes:

"The village was abandoned. All the people were gone. But where?
......
The houses all were empty. We passed by two donkeys each shot in the neck. Al Qaeda had killed their livestock...

We walked into the palm groves nearby. There was a terrible stench. The heat and the vegetation reminded me of the Killing Fields in Cambodia where I had visited shortly before the most recent trip to Iraq.
Soldiers from 5th IA said they’d found some of the villagers: They were dead.
.....
I told the Iraqi commander, Captain Baker, that it was important that Americans see this; he took me around the graves and showed more than I wanted to see. He said the people had been murdered by al Qaeda. I made video of him speaking, and of the horrible scene. The heat and stench were crushingly oppressive and broken only by the sounds of shovels as Iraqi soldiers kept digging....

Soldiers from 5th IA said al Qaeda had cut the heads off the children. Had al Qaeda murdered the children in front of their parents? Maybe it had been the other way around: maybe they had murdered the parents in front of the children. Maybe they had forced the father to dig the graves of his children... "

Read the latest from Michael Yon's Online Blog about Iraq, probably the best reporting done from Iraq.
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm

Posted by Kingfish at 10:46 AM
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Brian Johnson said...

What do you think of the torrent of media criticism about the administration's new focus on Al Qaeda? (See the Public Editor at the New York Times ripping his own paper http://nytimes.com/2007/07/08/opinion/08pubed.html for parroting Bush's line on Al Qaeda.)

Basically, about three months ago, the administration stopped talking about "insurgents" and started talking about "Al Qaeda," never bothering to explain even the most basic qualifications: that Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia formed after the invasion, that it only swore allegiance to bin Laden in 2004, that it has no "operational" links to bin Laden. Instead, Bush says blatantly misleading things like, "We are fighting in Iraq the same people who attacked us on 9/11," and by and large, the media just goes along with it.

Perhaps most important, Bush has now begun to claim that the majority of attacks on U.S. forces are coming from Al Qaeda, even though his own military commanders and intelligence people say that simply isn't so.

July 14, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Kingfish said...

Some clarification is in order. Zarqawi ran a poison gas training camp in Afghanistan. He fled to Iraq after we toppled the Taliban. That was probably the earliest appearance of AQ in IRaq. There is no question that AQ has had a presence there since we invaded.

I'm not too worried about the Bush Admin spin on this one because I see too many independent sources saying the same thing.

In fact, go to Michael Yon's website where he discusses AQ's presence in his latest dispatches. I think one reason you are seeing more mention of it is that it has been there all along but is now there is more reporting of its presence. Gordon of the NY Times has done some outstanding reporting from the field there, contrary to the rest of his paper's newstaff.

Zarqawi and other AQ members have publicly announced this is a battlefield against the US. Now, what you say about when it became a threat in Iraq is somewhat true. however, keep in mind the assymetrical nature of AQ. Somwhere in those terrorism links I have an article, I think by Walid Phares, on how AQ is a bigger threat because it constantly morphs and exists at several levels. Its model counts on sympathetic cells forming without any direction from AQ and that is problem one of its more worrisome threats.

Here are some good links I've posted:
http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2007/06/good-interview-with-author-of-fiasco.html

http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2007/06/knowing-al-qaida.html

July 14, 2007 at 5:58 PM

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