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| Iraq-Jordan |
| A terrorist with Nuance |
| 2004-09-13 |
| EFL Jason Burke in Baghdad Sunday September 12, 2004 The Observer 'There is no greater shame than to see your country occupied' Early one morning this week, when the police have yet to set up too many checkpoints, Abu Mujahed will strap a mortar underneath a car, drive to a friend's in central Baghdad and bury the weapon in his garden. In the evening he will return with the rest of his group, sleep for a few hours and then take the weapon from its hiding place. He will calculate the range using the American military's own maps and satellite pictures - bought in a bazaar - and fire a few rounds at a military base or the US Embassy or at the Iraqi Prime Minister's office. Then Abu Mujahed will shower, change and, by 10am, be at his desk in one of the major ministries.... Over the next months... 'One day we try and snipe them, the next we use an IED [Improvised Explosive Device], the next a mine. We never get any orders from anybody. We are just told: "Today you should do something," but it is up to us to decide what and when.' Black soldiers are a particular target. 'To have Negroes occupying us is a particular humiliation,' Abu Mujahed said, echoing the profound racism prevalent in much of the Middle East [so the terrorists are racists]. 'Sometimes we aborted a mission because there were no Negroes.' In contrast to many militants, who have killed hundreds of Iraqis in the last year, Abu Mujahed said his group was careful not to kill locals. 'We are now planning to use bigger bombs in central Baghdad. But it is hard because there are so many civilians.' Support for the militants is far from universal. They are not attracting new recruits and finances are tight [cost of RPGs in particular is cited later], he admitted. Later in the article his gives his neighborhood in Baghdad, his salary, his family size. It shouldn't be too hard to pick him up- if his actually exists |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #6 "He will calculate the range using the American military's own maps and satellite pictures - bought in a bazaar - and fire a few rounds at a military base or the US Embassy or at the Iraqi Prime Minister's office. Then Abu Mujahed will shower, change and, by 10am, be at his desk in one of the major ministries." No wonder these numbwads can't get anything done on their own. Don't like to work too much, it seems. |
| Posted by: beer_me 2004-09-13 11:33:16 PM |
| #5 Commies had a tough time with race tooo..... witness the constant attacks on the attendees of Patrice Lumbama (SP?) U in Moscow during the peak of Soviet glory. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-13 8:05:58 PM |
| #4 History repeats itself, but not in detail. Regarding the "negro" troops, proto-fascists circa 1920 Germany raised the same concerns. Witness Hitler's famous declaration concerning the occupation Senengalese troops: "They (the French)are treating us like niggers!" |
| Posted by: borgboy 2004-09-13 7:48:43 PM |
| #3 They are not attracting new recruits and finances are tight this if true is very significant, still im wary of a report from one, even if its by al-guardian. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-09-13 4:21:54 PM |
| #2 Mohammad was an Arab and he was the "perfect man", so anyone who isn't..... When we lived in Soddiland in the 60's, there were still slaves there, called 'Nubians'. Worked in Riyadh. |
| Posted by: Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-09-13 2:27:54 PM |
| #1 To have Negroes occupying us is a particular humiliation Helps explain the genocide in Sudan. What blows me away is the degree to which arabs/muslims seem to believe they are somehow superior. As hard as I try, using the most generous of criteria, I cannot come up with a single piece of evidence that would support that belief. NOTHING they have done in the past TEN CENTURIES would/could/should lead anyone to believe that. More than any other ethnic group they live in fantasy. They believe theirs is a vastly superior religion. They believe they can win a war with the west. They believe they will rid the middle east of Israel. Saddam wasn't the great evildoer who was particularly loathesome. He was simply one of them -- who made it to the top. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-09-13 2:24:49 PM |