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Iraq-Jordan |
Fallujah: In The Hands Of Insurgents |
2004-05-19 |
Excerpt...The resistance fighters inside Fallujah, said to number about 2,000, are divided into several factions. Four powerful Islamic leaders inside the city exert a measure of authority over most of the mujahedin; Mohammed and his group are loyal to a revered imam who preaches at one of the city's bigger mosques. It was this imam, we learn, who gave orders that any foreigner who enters Jolan without his permission should be thoroughly questioned. But other mujahedin in the city aren't beholden to any of the local clerics. These include foreign fighters and hard-line local jihadis, men who share the same inflexible hatred of the West as those who beheaded the American contractor Nick Berg last week. Mohammed tells us we were "lucky" that his group, rather than the hard-liners, had arrested us. "They are in the neighborhood," he warns us. |
Posted by:tipper |
#11 Interesting how closely they identify with the French, isn't it? |
Posted by: 11A5S 2004-05-19 1:03:25 PM |
#10 #1 how could a "reporter" not try to verify or at least get an opposing viewpoint of this assertion by these thugs? Rhetorical question, eh? |
Posted by: eLarson 2004-05-19 10:45:40 AM |
#9 This bears out the notion that the bad guys are holed up primarily in one neighborhood. I fully expect the Marines to go in there hard in the next few weeks. I would also imagine we are working the recon and intelligence angles hard. Finally, I liked this: "When the Marines invaded last month, Mohammed was one of hundreds of neighborhood men and teenagers—including many former Iraqi soldiers—who answered the call to arms from local mosques. "How would you feel if French soldiers or Arab soldiers invaded your city, and killed your friends, your family?"" Given a choice of who to fight, I think almost everyone would choose the French and the Arabs given their respective track records in modern times. What a maroon! |
Posted by: Tibor 2004-05-19 10:23:02 AM |
#8 :-) what can i say? |
Posted by: B 2004-05-19 9:53:25 AM |
#7 CENTURION: What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'? BRIAN: It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'. CENTURION: No, it doesn't. What's Latin for 'Roman'? Come on! |
Posted by: snellenr 2004-05-19 9:47:31 AM |
#6 Graffiti. Two f's, one t. |
Posted by: Picky 2004-05-19 8:50:29 AM |
#5 im hatte it when grafitti artist cant spell. |
Posted by: muck4doo 2004-05-19 8:30:45 AM |
#4 heh..heh...I meant grafetti... it just makes my point even further ;-) |
Posted by: B 2004-05-19 8:30:21 AM |
#3 at that website, notice the photo of the graphetti "all donne go home" with talk of quagmire and still so much violence in Iraq??? If someone was going to misspell "done", why would they use two n's? It's not a phonetic misspelling and generally a misspelling would miss a silent letter, not add it in. Example, one is more likely to write "mispell" or graffete" or "grapheti", rather than misspell or graphetti. If it's not a phonetic mistake, then someone had to translate it for them and thus they'd spell it right. I know it could have happened, but it just seems contrived to me. Especially since that MSNBC site might as well be AlJiz. |
Posted by: B 2004-05-19 8:28:09 AM |
#2 I can't decide who's the greater idiot: the ignorant jihadi who applauds our getting rid of Saddam but hates us for not having packed up and gone home immediately after, or the lackwit, suck-up sycophantic Newsweek reporter who believes everything the jihadi says. Shoot them both. |
Posted by: Dave D. 2004-05-19 8:15:30 AM |
#1 I can't believe we have so many Marine snipers. There must be thousands of them and they must be damn near invisible. I realize the reporter was relating what he was told but how could a "reporter" not try to verify or at least get an opposing viewpoint of this assertion by these thugs? He seems to take everything that was told him as absolute truth. I trust the mainstream American media about as far as I can throw my thumb. |
Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-05-19 7:59:38 AM |