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Nuggets from Jihad Unspun Reporting About Iraq
2004-09-08
From Jihad Unspun
Iraqi Resistance fighters in al-Fallujah fired five US missiles back at US forces at their base in the agricultural area near the city. The local correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces had earlier fired 17 rockets at al-Fallujah, but five of them failed to explode. The Resistance, drawing on the expertise and skill of Iraqi weaponry experts, took the five unexploded rockets and reprogrammed and retargeted them and then fired them at the US camp in the agricultural area near the city at 5:00pm Wednesday afternoon Baghdad time. The US rockets produced obvious and copious amounts of shrapnel when they exploded in the American camp.
Gee...d'ya think the heroic Iraqi Resistance fighters could take a look at my surprise meter? It's been busted for a while now and these guys look like real 'lectronic whizzes...
Posted by:Mike Sylwester

#11  Reading Jihad Unspun is like reading the old Soviet press, you have to look behind the words. For example:
The al-Fallujah correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported Wednesday night that at about midnight local time US forces had fired a rocket at a park in the an-Nazal neighborhood behind the flour mill in the south of al-Fallujah. As a result of the attack, some 30 civilians were brutally martyred, all park and mill workers.

Translation, we nailed 30 bad guys in Fallujah.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces at 11:00pm Tuesday night (Baghdad time) captured 11 Iraqi Resistance fighters near the Jordanian Hospital east of al-Fallujah as they were attempting to carry out operations against the US invaders. The correspondent in al-Fallujah writes, in a dispatch posted at 3:25pm Mecca time Wednesday that the US forces then murdered the 11 captives Wednesday morning in their base in the agricultural area near the city.

Translation: another 11 bad guys either dead or in the jug.
Posted by: Steve   2004-09-08 12:55:42 PM  

#10  #5 Spot: LOL - sounds like Baghdad Bob is back in business. Does anyone really pay attention to this crap?

Other than the fellow who posted it here, highlighting the most lurid parts? Can't imagine...
Posted by: eLarson   2004-09-08 11:46:52 AM  

#9  The AP is treating our war dead as if it is a grocery store promotion. Just when you think the mainstream media couldn't sink any lower, they proceed to dig.
Posted by: eLarson   2004-09-08 11:44:59 AM  

#8  Iraqi Resistance fighters in al-Fallujah fired five US missiles back at US forces at their base in the agricultural area near the city. The local correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces had earlier fired 17 rockets at al-Fallujah, but five of them failed to explode. The Resistance, drawing on the expertise and skill of Iraqi weaponry experts, took the five unexploded rockets and reprogrammed and retargeted them and then fired them at the US camp in the agricultural area near the city at 5:00pm Wednesday afternoon Baghdad time. The US rockets produced obvious and copious amounts of shrapnel when they exploded in the American camp.

That's all it took? A little reprogramming?

They didn't have to replace the solid rocket motors so they'd do something besides just sit there?
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2004-09-08 9:04:11 AM  

#7  . . . reprogrammed and retargeted them and then fired them and fitted them with artificial intelligence and exchanged their warheads with flesh-seeking sensors and . . .
Posted by: PlanetDan   2004-09-08 9:00:11 AM  

#6  On the way in to work this morning I was listening to National limp-wristed Radio, I mean NPR, to a report by their Iraq reporter who entered the Shrine in Najaf just moments after the cease-fire. He said it was amazing to him how these ill trained militia had held out against the US military. Not one mention of how our military was hampered by not doing any damage to the shrine and trying mightily to minimize the damage to the cemetary. This guy was on a propaganda mission for the lawless thugs who took over the shrine. Also there was no mention of the bodies found after the shrine was evacuated. I fired off an indignant e-mail to NPr. I won't be listening to their pro-Islamofascist reporting again.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2004-09-08 7:33:24 AM  

#5  LOL - sounds like Baghdad Bob is back in business. Does anyone really pay attention to this crap?
Posted by: Spot   2004-09-08 4:16:20 AM  

#4  What happened to all the US soldiers who defected due to the purity of Islam? There were lots of reports of these things during the Chechnyan conflict. Russian soldier realizes he's wrong, sees the light, and goes over to the Islamic side. Muslims welcome him, and fit him with an explosive belt so he can become a martyr in paradise. Russian completes mission, booms checkpoint. So said Azzam, anyway.
Posted by: gromky   2004-09-08 2:14:09 AM  

#3  These Iraq Resistance Reports are so full of propaganda. Although Unspun refines the wordage, the b.s. still exists.
Posted by: Capt America   2004-09-08 1:58:32 AM  

#2  ..reprogrammed and retargeted them and then fired them...

Sure they did.
My bullshit alarm went off when I read that.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-09-08 1:52:06 AM  

#1  Good thing the Associated Press isn't depending on these guys in their count to the magic 1,000 dead American soldiers -- would have hit that milestone months ago.
Posted by: Steve White   2004-09-08 12:17:14 AM  

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