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2008-05-18 Iraq

Iraqi forces detain 1,000 in al Qaeda push

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Posted by Fred 2008-05-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 Iraqi law states that each household may legally own one semi-automatic rifle.

For what ? This shit guarantees that lawlessness will continue. What is an automatic weapon for except killing people ? The US should have insisted, long ago, that AK47s be confiscated, all of them. Just another blunder from the blunderer n chief, no doubt. Confiscating weapons would be a great excuse to go door to door now and then. Not that I think such police state tactics are good, but Iraq really needs such a cleanout.

Posted by wxjames 2008-05-18 11:46|| 2008-05-18 11:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Probably for the same reason we have the right to bear arms. It should be an individual right of the citizens of every country. You think Mugabe would be getting away with his raping of Zimbabwe if there was an armed population with one semi-automatic weapon per household?

Do you think Americans are the only ones "good enough" to bear arms as civilians? Removing weapons from the law abiding doesn't reduce crime because the law abiding don't commit crime and the people who DO commit the crimes don't care about gun bans ... because they are criminals.

Allowing the law abiding to have a weapon is of no risk. When the common folk start shooting at you, it is YOU who have screwed up, not them.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-05-18 13:12|| 2008-05-18 13:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Do you think Americans are the only ones "good enough" to bear arms as civilians?
I sense a meme. No wait, never mind, it was the chili.

Posted by George Smiley 2008-05-18 13:45|| 2008-05-18 13:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Al Jizz even admits it's quite a haul:

"The military said al-Qaeda operatives who had regrouped in the region were the target of the arrests.

Al-Askari said 530 of those being held, three of them senior al-Qaeda members, were wanted by the authorities.

He said security forces had recovered 1,400kg of explosives, 45 missiles, 263 mortar bombs and 175 assorted weapons."

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-18 13:56|| 2008-05-18 13:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't forget the weddings: you can't have a wedding in the a-rab lands if'n you don't got an AK or two to shoot into the air with...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-05-18 14:10|| 2008-05-18 14:10|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder if face-recognition technology is in use in the Iraq theater? Arabs like to celebrate terror on camera. A large number of the 1000 arrested would probably have been caught on tape.

Posted by McZoid 2008-05-18 15:42|| 2008-05-18 15:42|| Front Page Top

#7 A 1000 detained and +/- ton of material seized? This sounds the quantitative is also qualitative. Wasn't that a Rumsfeldian point?

Posted by Harcourt Jush7795 2008-05-18 17:10|| 2008-05-18 17:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Iraqi law states that each household may legally own one semi-automatic rifle.
(Snip)
The US should have insisted, long ago, that AK47s be confiscated, all of them.

Ummm, AK's are NOT "Semi-Auto", theyre full auto with a select fire lever that allows semi-auto fire.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-05-18 21:19|| 2008-05-18 21:19|| Front Page Top

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