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2005-09-29 Iraq

Newsweek's rather odd take on the killing of Abu Azzam

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-29 01:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 General, Colonel, Lt Colonel, Major, Captain, Leutenant or common foot soldier.

Who gives a damn, he's dead, and that's good

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-09-29 01:21|| 2005-09-29 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 The notion that anyone would take Newsweak as anything other than "odd" is, well, rather odd.

No offense, but MSM jurnos look at everything through an anti-administration prism.

Evan K is a credible source and I agree that knocking off #2 or whatever will not diminish the number of bombings (which are performed by the fungible).

Still, doing in Abu Azzam is a positive development on two fronts: (1) disrupting command and control, and (2) positive PR to counteract the constant drum beat of bombing deaths, etc.

BTW - References to "two other officals" and other such unnamed sources raises by bullshit meter signficantly.

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-29 01:56|| 2005-09-29 01:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Agree with redneck: One less Islamo-cockroach to procreate, and breathe good oxygen. I hope he is enjoying his first week in Hell with allan.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2005-09-29 02:03|| 2005-09-29 02:03|| Front Page Top

#4 there are ample reasons to question whether Evan Kohlmann was really a veteran counterterrorism analyst of worth and many important high up important people who wish to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the matter, question whether anyone really reads NewsWeak or cares if their made up experts are real or just figments of their weak imaginations.

Posted by Angang Cragum9045 2005-09-29 02:55|| 2005-09-29 02:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Newsweek,

We just want to know who he was, where from, and what he did, then we'd know the signifigance.

Thanks

Newsweek creates controversy within their stories, when there's a much more interesting battle happening at this moment. Newsweek's narrow stories are just a tidbit of what's happening in this struggle for freedom, it's sales above journalism, because attacking the government is so damn interesting to readm, however I'm tired of it, but it's a good chuckle.

I recommend this blog entry:

Who was Abdullah Abu Azzam al-Iraqi?
By Bill Roggio

http://billroggio.com/archives/2005/09/who_was_abdulla.php

Posted by Whavigum Phiter9098 2005-09-29 02:57|| http://billroggio.com/archives/2005/09/who_was_abdulla.php]">[http://billroggio.com/archives/2005/09/who_was_abdulla.php] 2005-09-29 02:57|| Front Page Top

#6 PS

Iraqi national security adviser Muwaffaq Rubaei estimates Azzam âmust have killed 1,200 Baghdadisâ via car bombings and other attacks.

This alone is quite significant, so shove it deep where the sun don't shine, Newsweek!

Posted by Whavigum Phiter9098 2005-09-29 03:01|| 2005-09-29 03:01|| Front Page Top

#7 MSM lead some time in the future:

KANDAJAR (ROOTER) In telligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, doubt that the capture of Osama bin Laden and several top aides along with approximately 67.3 gigabyte of files and saved emails dating back to 1999, will have much effect in the war on terrorism.

"We can't win this war," said intelligence official M Albright, whose name has been change to protect her identity...

Posted by badanov 2005-09-29 07:01|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-09-29 07:01|| Front Page Top

#8

The characterization of Abu Azzam as No. 2 to Zarqawi is ânot quite accurate,â said one of the officials. According to this official, it would be more correct to describe Abu Azzam as a âtop lieutenantâ to Zarqawi who was involved in ârunningâ terrorist operations in Baghdadânot all of Iraq. Other top lieutenants operate in other parts of the country, the official indicated.

So he was A #2, just not THE #2.

Christ, these people would have bitched that Yamamoto being shot down was meaningless, since he wasn't actually in command of a fleet in the middle of battle at the time, and besides, why haven't we gotten the Emperor yet?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-29 07:29|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-29 07:29|| Front Page Top

#9 1) Kohlmann does not give us his pick for #2.
2) Unnamed sources - always sets off the BS Meter.
3) Previously mentioned articles discuss us nailing 'right hand man' and 'top leaders', which doesn't seem to be in dispute but portrayed as badly as possible. It also escapes the writer's notice that 'top leaders', after getting captured or waxed, get replaced so there are always 'top people' to be had.
4) Al-Quesadilla's denial of Azzam as its #2 is obvious disinformation / icing on the cake.

Nice try, though, guys...

Posted by Raj 2005-09-29 09:35|| 2005-09-29 09:35|| Front Page Top

#10 I QUIT reading TIME AND NEWSWEEK decades ago. They are just a hop-skip-and-jump from PEOPLE maybe a tad dumber as they think they are intelligent.

Posted by 3dc 2005-09-29 11:40|| 2005-09-29 11:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Hell, if I were the actual #2 of al Queda, I'd invent two or three "seconds-in-command" for the Americans and their running dogs to go chasing around. I'd probably meet with fellow-travellers and insurgents of dubious reliability under one or another of those names every once in a while, just to add some versimilitude.

Nobody eludes capture like a phantom. You just have to hope that the enemy doesn't figure it out, and starts inventing fictional raids that "captured" both abu Illuminati and al-Bilderberg. Although I suppose you could just keep on inventing new abu Smokeandmists and al-Rheinwatches, and let the authorities multiply their fake captures and shootings until someone in the media twigs to the whole charade.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2005-09-29 14:08|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2005-09-29 14:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Mitch is on to ssssssomething

Posted by SSSSShipman 2005-09-29 16:23|| 2005-09-29 16:23|| Front Page Top

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