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2005-06-22 Terror Networks & Islam

Iraq may become a prime training ground for terrorists, CIA argues

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-06-22 14:34|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Before they can be a problem anywhere else, they have to survive their time in Iraq. Let's work with the Iraqis to make that an unlikely prospect.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-06-22 14:53|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-06-22 14:53|| Front Page Top

#2 The war with Germany and Japan left both countries with millions of ex-military men skilled with weapons and explosives. After losing millions of dead, they surrendered. The jihadis are just getting ramped up. If we have to kill millions of them to get them to submit, this is going to be a long war. But the fact is that not attacking them would have prevented us from fighting them without preventing them from attacking us. I much prefer the kill ratios in Iraq, where our boys are taking them out at multiples of the casualties we are sustaining, to the kill ratios during 9/11, where we lost 150 dead for every dead jihadi.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-06-22 16:14|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-06-22 16:14|| Front Page Top

#3 The question is whether the number who survive fighting in Iraq and can leave is significant.

Afghanistans war left lots of survivors because it was far less deadly. Most of the "Afghan Arabs", as also the Afghans, fought only intermittently and mainly occupied sanctuary zones.

There are no real sanctuaries in Iraq and the kill/capture rate seems very high.

Posted by buwaya 2005-06-22 16:24|| 2005-06-22 16:24|| Front Page Top

#4 This is just another verse in the Hymn of Appeasement.

Verse 1: Fighting terrorists is impossible because you can't defeat what you can't target.

Verse 2: Fighting terrorists just makes them mad and produces more terrorists

Verse 3: Fighting terrorists just produces highly experienced super-terrorists with Kung-Fu Grip(TM).

Posted by Dreadnought 2005-06-22 16:58|| 2005-06-22 16:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Training has a limited effect once the trainee is dead.

Posted by Brett 2005-06-22 18:07|| 2005-06-22 18:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Iraq is also a training ground for a lot of counter-terrorists expert at hunting down and killing terrorists in an urban environment.

Posted by jolly roger 2005-06-22 19:03|| 2005-06-22 19:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Hmmmm...ya mean it works both ways, jolly roger? A two-edged sword? It's even possible the CIA figgered that out, but would our friends in the media report the "other side"? Not likely!

Posted by Bobby 2005-06-22 21:21|| 2005-06-22 21:21|| Front Page Top

#8 The MSM is obviously in a full-court press with the Dems to make the war look hopeless - even beyond what they've been doing up to now. Expect this to get much worse before it gets any better.

Posted by xbalanke 2005-06-22 22:05|| 2005-06-22 22:05|| Front Page Top

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