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| Iraq |
| Mujahideen Council takes credit for recent attacks |
| 2006-01-18 |
| The Mujahideen Council issues seven communiqués today, January 17, 2006, claiming responsibility for detonating improvised explosive devices (IEDâs) on targets including âCrusader convoysâ and Iraqi police in Shahraban and al-Latifiya, assassinating employees of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a captain in the National Guard, and a companion of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the United Iraqi Alliance, in Baghdad: 1. The first message indicates that eleven Iraqi police officers were killed yesterday, Monday, January 16, 2006, during a confrontation with the groupâs mujahideen that culminated with the detonation of a car bomb in Shahraban. 2. An IED was detonated today on a âCrusadersâ convoyâ in al-Latifiya, destroying a Humvee and killing two soldiers. 3. Two employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hareth Mohsen and Harb Mohsen, were assassinated today in the al-Jihad section of Baghdad. 4. The fourth communiqué states that an IED was detonated on a convoy in the north of Baghdad, resulting in damage to a âCrusaderâ tank. 5. The fifth communiqué states that mortar shells were fired at the house of Diyaliâs governor in al-Wajihiya. 6. Today, Sayed Hussein, a companion of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, was assassinated in the area of al-Ghazaliya. 7. The seventh message states that a captain in the Iraqi National Guard was killed in the area of al-Dawra in Baghdad. The Mujahideen Council, according to their statement of establishment, is composed of six insurgency groups in Iraq: al-Qaeda in Iraq, Victorious Army Group, Ansar al-Tawhid Brigades, Islamic Jihad Brigades, the Strangers Brigades, and the Horrors Brigades, collaborating to meet the âunbelievers gathering with different sidesâ and defend Islam. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #9 CF9283, all the Kurds I've met have been charmingly tied into reality; but I've never been to their native habitat, so I can't say if they just adjust well to their new environment. I don't know if it counts as a data point, but the English king Richard Lionheart thought very highly of Saladin, and counted him as a friend. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-01-18 21:35 |
| #8 TW, Thank you! You're right, I never paid attention to how close their eyes seem to be... :-) To expand my now-approved diagnosis a bit more: - Don't test Israel, there is too much European influence. Israel will NEVER suffer from PAOS. - Don't test the Christians either. Some of the worst effects of PAOS are neutralized when you are heavily outnumbered and everyone want to kill you (This goes for Israel as well!) - I think the interesting test would be: do the Iraqi Kurds suffer from it? Are they given to the wild passionate fantasies that everyone else in the area seems drunk on? Sadly, I don't know any Kurds. So: no data = no theory. |
| Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283 2006-01-18 20:44 |
| #7 True, Chinter Flarong9283, but I'll bet you never thought to connect Pan-Arabic Overstatement Syndrome⢠(or should we be open-minded and call it Pan-Muslim, etc, or Dar al Islam, etc... near-East/Mid-East won't work, because the Israelis don't do it, not even the ones who came from that part of the world) to inbreeding. ;-) Lovely diagnosis, by the way. It's a keeper. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-01-18 19:03 |
| #6 Sorry, clearly I need more caffein before posting. You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up -- the name choosers are clearly suffering from the results of inbreeding. Actually TW, I would say that they are suffering from pan-arabic overstatement syndrome⢠... All of the people in that region are given to wild overstatement (remember Baghdad Bob?) I used to think that this was limited mainly to arabic speakers, but reading Khomeini, the Young Turks, and hearing Ahmadinejad carrying on have disabused me of this notion. |
| Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283 2006-01-18 15:17 |
| #5 Strangers and whores Brigade? |
| Posted by: junkirony 2006-01-18 13:00 |
| #4 the Frightens Children When They Drool Like That brigade |
| Posted by: true nuff 2006-01-18 11:52 |
| #3 the Bad Overbite Brigade |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-01-18 08:58 |
| #2 the Strangers Brigades, and the Horrors Brigades Sorry, clearly I need more caffein before posting. You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up -- the name choosers are clearly suffering from the results of inbreeding. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-01-18 08:49 |
| #1 the Strangers Brigades, and the Horrors Brigades |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-01-18 08:47 |