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2005-07-28 Iraq-Jordan
Iraqi Insurgents Counter-Attack Against Operation
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-07-28 07:38|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 More JU nonsense. Kinda curious how they where firing all their weapons in volleys of seven though with a resultant casualty count of thirteen. JU just cannot hide it's fascination with numerology.
Posted by TomAnon 2005-07-28 08:39||   2005-07-28 08:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Frankly it's diffcult to ignore these numbers, 7x13 is equavalent to 70 plus 21. One is the age of death, the other the age of majority. Together they add up to 91 which is 19 revereed. 91 Is also the number of PAGES CUT FROM THE WARREN COMMISSION.
Posted by Jack Rubenstein 2005-07-28 08:52||   2005-07-28 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Enough with the JU bullsh*t. Bandwidth-wasting enemy propaganda.
Posted by Spot">Spot  2005-07-28 08:58||   2005-07-28 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Did someone mention "Gnawing Rats".



/lets wack the rat.
Posted by Red Dog 2005-07-28 09:05||   2005-07-28 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Centcom Casualty report is here.

Strange Mikey how your mouthpiece's events and numbers don't match. Now in an open society where troops and family have open access and communication, you'd know if our government was cooking the books. So your little exercise in Sedition during Time of War, seems so .... desperate.
Posted by Glater Uninter1262 2005-07-28 09:07||   2005-07-28 09:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey, Red Dog, is this what you mean?
LINK
Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins  2005-07-28 09:13|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org]  2005-07-28 09:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Mike, do us all a little favor and if you must post this sort of crap at least make the effort to go out and find some of the more novel material. There's no shortage out there. Try. After two "reports" JU reads like the same mind-numbing, fatally boring, children's book heard for the 1000th time.
Posted by MunkarKat 2005-07-28 09:17||   2005-07-28 09:17|| Front Page Top

#8 MS forgot to bold the casualty numbers. He's slipping.
Posted by eLarson 2005-07-28 09:20|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2005-07-28 09:20|| Front Page Top

#9 No he's not slipping, he know's he is losing.
Posted by phil_b 2005-07-28 09:32||   2005-07-28 09:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Gotta wonder when Mikey's going to go into full-froth mode.

Maybe when Benon Sevan(sp?) is finally indicted?
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2005-07-28 09:41|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-07-28 09:41|| Front Page Top

#11 He forgot this part - The correspondent reported that it was impossible to assess the extent of losses incurred by the Americans in the two attacks since US troops were shooting at anyone approaching them.

Which is why I have a hard time with the fact that these Lions of Islam are able to accurately count dead and/or wounded. Unless it's The Little Big Horn*, attackers don't get to count the dead/wounded.

*Or, if you prefer, General George Armstrong Custer's Last Stand, in 1878 - more or less.
Posted by Bobby 2005-07-28 09:43||   2005-07-28 09:43|| Front Page Top

#12 I keep telling you -- it's all a Halliburton / Cheney plot. See, they're using the bodies of all those dead troops for experiments into alternate fuels and then using computer simulations to fake emails, sat phone conversations and streaming video with the families back home.

Gets tougher when the units rotate home ... then they have to activate the clones or go whack the families so noone realizes that all those troops are actually dead. Cause it LOOKS as if they're alive all right ....

Fiendish. I wonder if it was Rove's idea or if Robe is Cheney's understudy?
Posted by too true 2005-07-28 09:44||   2005-07-28 09:44|| Front Page Top

#13 stfu t boy.
Posted by Red Dog 2005-07-28 09:44||   2005-07-28 09:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Anyone notice that the return of a Boris clone coincided with Mikey's return?
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2005-07-28 09:45|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-07-28 09:45|| Front Page Top

#15 T boy = Tholuns Shomogum7813


not too true RB.
Posted by Red Dog 2005-07-28 09:46||   2005-07-28 09:46|| Front Page Top

#16 whew ... I wondered LOL
Posted by too true 2005-07-28 09:54||   2005-07-28 09:54|| Front Page Top

#17 Had the friendly fire claims adjuster on the other line.
Posted by MunkarKat 2005-07-28 10:01||   2005-07-28 10:01|| Front Page Top

#18 Don't make me have to setup another detail under your bed to monitor your bed wetting TS. Or should I say, Boris?
Posted by The Mossad 2005-07-28 10:08||   2005-07-28 10:08|| Front Page Top

#19 I think most of us would not object about an article of JU say, once a month for a laugh. But that we are sick of having to ciope with such tripe day after day.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2005-07-28 10:22||   2005-07-28 10:22|| Front Page Top

#20 The JU posts are actually funny. I always think of some rat-ass jihadi reading this and praising allen. It always brings chuckle.
Posted by Brett 2005-07-28 10:34||   2005-07-28 10:34|| Front Page Top

#21 They are funny, but that's not Mikey's intent. I'll listen if he sez otherwise.
Posted by Shipman 2005-07-28 10:38||   2005-07-28 10:38|| Front Page Top

#22 The only reason I look at Jihad Unspun is so I don't have to patronize the Boston Globe and I can still read Derrick Z. Jackson's insane blubbering columns.
Posted by tu3031 2005-07-28 11:05||   2005-07-28 11:05|| Front Page Top

#23 I think Mike has said before that he posts the JU stuff as humor. I don't think he's one of their fellow travellers at all, and I think we're accusing him falsely. He has the LE mentality for dealing with terrorism, which many here reject, but he's not a fellow traveller.

If I had more time at night, I'd post JU stuff with all the appropriately snarky, salmon-colored commentary. I just don't have the time.
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2005-07-28 11:14||   2005-07-28 11:14|| Front Page Top

#24 Mike, you keep posting this nonsense from J.U.
You do know that this site is suspected to be a CIA trap?
Some Web watchers.... believe the U.S. government may be using the Internet jihad to spy. They speculate that Jihad Unspun, an English-language site that appears to promote terror, may be a CIA creation, designed to find out who visits or orders videos glorifying bin Laden.
As often as you visit, the CIA must have "your number" by now. Maybe you'll get a visit from Valerie, the deep cover agent.
Posted by GK 2005-07-28 11:15||   2005-07-28 11:15|| Front Page Top

#25 Dear F.B.I. - I admit freely that I have visited the JU site from time to time, but only from an upstanding site like Rantburg, just to verify the posting was accurate.

But I don't have any Ossama videos. Anymore.
Posted by Abu Musab al Dopey 2005-07-28 12:49||   2005-07-28 12:49|| Front Page Top

#26 Ya know, the Crossfire Gazette is totally repetitive yet I laugh at every single issue. This Jihad Unspun crap is totally repetitive, and I haven't had a laugh in weeks. Maybe it's because the Gazette has hilarious editorial commentary, and this has no commentary at all?
Posted by WhiteCollarRedneck 2005-07-28 12:53||   2005-07-28 12:53|| Front Page Top

#27 WhiteCollarRedneck -- it's also because the Crossfire Gazette is about thieves and murderers getting justice. Rough and ready justice, admittedly, but justice all the same. Quite a few of those articles have had bits about the locals being relieved and happy that someone got caught in a "crossfire".

The Jihad Unspun claims, though, are from evil men claiming to have killed American soldiers trying to rebuild a nation crushed by tyranny and bloodied by terrorists. And for all their claims of attacking American soldiers, we know they're more likely to be killing ordinary Iraqis trying to get through their lives.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2005-07-28 13:02|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-07-28 13:02|| Front Page Top

#28 MODS - or .com...

PLEEEEEASE get a picture of Baghdad Bob to post as the graphic at the top of EVERY JU post, no matter who puts it up here. This stuff from JU is of the same quality and truth as ol Baghdada Bob's stuff.
Posted by OldSpook 2005-07-28 13:06||   2005-07-28 13:06|| Front Page Top

#29 I *like* the Crossfire Gazette. Reminds me of reading Dick Tracy in the comics on Sunday with Dad. JU, however, is as dull and plodding as anything Karl Marx ever wrote.
Posted by SteveS 2005-07-28 13:40||   2005-07-28 13:40|| Front Page Top

#30 Your wish is our command, OS.
Posted by rkb 2005-07-28 13:55||   2005-07-28 13:55|| Front Page Top

#31 Perhaps it it time to do "Tales from the Jihad Gazette". Just have to look for the right material, I do have standards to live down to.
Posted by Steve">Steve  2005-07-28 13:57||   2005-07-28 13:57|| Front Page Top

#32 Steve get it all... at least the headlines. It'll remove temptation.
Posted by Shipman 2005-07-28 15:15||   2005-07-28 15:15|| Front Page Top

#33 I want to be able to say.... Jeeezus jim jim, I already ready about this in the J G!. Trash it!
Posted by Shipman 2005-07-28 15:16||   2005-07-28 15:16|| Front Page Top

#34 Old Spook
Here are som classics from Baghdad Bob...

The Collected Quotations of "Baghdad Bob," Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf: The Iraqi Minister of DisInformation

Mocking the Coalition's Attempt To Target Saddam Hussein:


Attempting to Acknowledge What Was Happening Militarily Beyond Baghdad:
March 22, 2003
"Maybe they will enter Umm Qasr and Basra, but how will they enter Baghdad? It will be a big oven for them. They can penetrate our borders but they cannot reach Baghdad. They will try to pull our army and troops out but we are well aware of their plans and they will fail."

March 23, 2003
"In Umm Qasr, the fighting is fierce and we have inflicted many damages. The stupid enemy, the Americans and British, failed completely. They're not making any penetration."

As Televised Reports of U.S. Forces Approaching the Outskirts of Western Baghdad Are Shown:
"They are not any place. They are on the move everywhere. They are a snake moving in the desert. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion."

After U.S. Forces Seized Baghdad's Airport:
"We butchered the force present at the airport. We have retaken the airport! There are no Americans there!"

After U.S. Troops Penetrated Central Baghdad:
April 5, 2003
"Nobody came here. Those America losers, I think their repeated frequent lies are bringing them down very rapidly.... Baghdad is secure, is safe."

April 5, 2003
"They are not near Baghdad. Don't believe them.... They said they entered with... tanks in the middle of the capital. They claim that they - I tell you, I... that this speech is too far from the reality. It is a part of this sickness of their plan. There is no an... - no any existence to the American troops or for the troops in Baghdad at all."

April 6, 2003
"Whenever we attack, they retreat. When we pound them with missiles and heavy artillery, they retreat even deeper. But when we stopped pounding, they pushed to the airport for propaganda purposes."

April 7, 2003
"The Americans are not there. They're not in Baghdad. There are no troops there. Never. They're not at all."

April 7, 2003
"U.S. forces learned a lesson last night they will never forget. We slaughtered them and will continue to slaughter them."

April 7, 2003
"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."

With Media Pictures of U.S. Troops Being Shown Standing Under the Giant Crossed Swords in Saddam's Favorite Parade Grounds in Baghdad, While Giving a Press Briefing Around the Corner:
"There you can see, there is nothing going on."

After U.S. Missiles Destroyed His Office in the Information Ministry and He was Forced to Give Press Briefings on the Street:
"They will be burnt. We are going to tackle them."

Disputing His Own Assertions of No Coalition Troops in Baghdad:
"We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.... They pushed a few of their armored carriers and some tanks with their soldiers. We besieged them and I think we will finish them soon."

While American Soldiers Are Showering in Saddam's Bathroom Nearby Presidential Palace:
"We have killed most of the [coalition] infidels, and I think we will finish off the rest soon."

After Being Shown Footage of Iraqi Soldiers Surrendering:
"Those are not Iraqi soldiers at all."

April 7, 2003
"This invasion will end in failure."

April 8, 2003
"Baghdad Bob" disappeared, perhaps forever. On the other hand, perhaps he will return as Minister of Information for France or be awarded a drive time show on the new liberal talk radio network.
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-07-28 15:35||   2005-07-28 15:35|| Front Page Top

#35 my favrit wuz wen he saisd our troops were linen up to comit sooiside rathere then fasen teh iraqi forses
Posted by muck4doo 2005-07-28 15:51|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2005-07-28 15:51|| Front Page Top

#36 There was something about the "gates of Baghdad" too, that was hilarious.
Posted by Rafael 2005-07-28 16:00||   2005-07-28 16:00|| Front Page Top

#37 A laugh riot

EP
Posted by ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-07-28 16:01||   2005-07-28 16:01|| Front Page Top

#38 their we go:

"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have
started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We
will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."
Posted by muck4doo 2005-07-28 16:03|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2005-07-28 16:03|| Front Page Top

#39 guesn their wuz mor to it:

"Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad. Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected."

"Today I have visited whole Baghdad city, no invaders found. You go and see how we have ousted them from this city. They are cying outside and waiting to receive bullets. They will be killed shortly."

"These images are not the suburbs of Baghdad. From what I glimpsed, these gardens with rows of palm trees on the side, which you saw in the images, are located in the south of Abu Ghreib, where we have surrounded the Americans and British."
Posted by muck4doo 2005-07-28 16:07|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2005-07-28 16:07|| Front Page Top

#40 He had his own fan website, with t-shirts and all, and when he went to surrender, nobody wanted him. He looks the part too. Hilarious.
Posted by Rafael 2005-07-28 21:12||   2005-07-28 21:12|| Front Page Top

#41 Well, not nobody. Al-Arabiya TV wanted him as a commentator for his uncannily accurate predictions.
Posted by ed 2005-07-28 21:24||   2005-07-28 21:24|| Front Page Top

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