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Iraq-Jordan
Canadian Journalist says Taliban in Iraq
2004-09-18
U.S. forces in Iraq are going to face an explosion in the northern city of Mosul, Canadian military journalist Scott Taylor said Thursday. "The Americans have no idea what kind of an anthill they're sitting on" he told CBC Newsworld.
"That's because they're stoopid, of course."
Taylor based his conclusions on observations he made after being kidnapped in Iraq on Sept. 7 and released five days later, near Mosul in northern Iraq.
Brilliant move on his part, wasn't it?
He said he was put in a taxi to Turkey. He said he was handed from group to group that shared hostages and weapons, including one he called the Taliban, the militants who controlled Afghanistan until the U.S. drove them out. He said the groups operated "with the full co-operation of the police." Taylor was seized with a Turkish journalist and a UN driver. While being held, he said there were at least six occasions when he was threatened with beheading. One of the groups that held him said it had killed 37 hostages and freed 10...
Posted by:Anonymoose

#10  FG: BTW - The Last Citadel - in paperback now - I recommend it

Thanks. I'll look into it. If you can find it - check out Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. He's crap as a military analyst, but provides a nice primer on the kinds of difficulties that besieger and besieged went through in that charnel house of a battle.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2004-09-18 10:05:15 PM  

#9  BTW - The Last Citadel - in paperback now - I recommend it
Posted by: Frank G   2004-09-18 9:37:26 PM  

#8  crazyhorse: A five day assessment under threat of being beheaded,six times.Anthill,huh ?

Anthill is his way of saying quagmire - there are so many of them you can't kill them all. It's like someone saying that a place is overrun with muggers after he gets mugged.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2004-09-18 9:30:27 PM  

#7  A five day assessment under threat of being beheaded,six times.Anthill,huh ?
Posted by: crazyhorse   2004-09-18 9:26:48 PM  

#6  In general, journalists are a bunch of lazy and incompetent bozos, and they project their own laziness and incompetence onto the US military personnel they encounter. Reporters are a bunch of Michael Moore's without film-making talent.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2004-09-18 9:20:18 PM  

#5  ZF - I'm reading "Last Citadel" about the battle of Kursk - 1 Million on each side. Can you imagine how today's press would've covered that?
Posted by: Frank G   2004-09-18 9:18:57 PM  

#4  If American journalists can't tell the difference between a letter generated on Microsoft Word and a typewritten letter from the 1970's, I doubt a Canadian journalist can tell the difference between genuine Iraqi policemen and Iraqi terrorists wearing uniforms that were either stolen or purchased.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2004-09-18 8:59:18 PM  

#3  Article: He said the groups operated 'with the full co-operation of the police'.

This could mean the groups operated with the full-cooperation of people who wore police uniforms. Note that Palestinians have been known to wear Israeli army uniforms. Anybody can get a uniform. The question is whether a Canadian journalist can tell the difference between an Iraqi policeman and an Iraqi wearing police uniform.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2004-09-18 8:45:34 PM  

#2  "He said the groups operated 'with the full co-operation of the police.' "
Posted by: jules 2   2004-09-18 7:51:51 PM  

#1  Scott Taylor: The Americans have no idea what kind of an anthill they’re sitting on

These must be the same journalists who describe a troop movement involving 2000 GI's as "massive".
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2004-09-18 7:44:53 PM  

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