If you're one of the Islamofascists, that is:

Allawi identified the group as Jaish Muhammad, Arabic for Muhammad's Army. The group "has been arrested ... We arrested their leader," Allawi said, identifying him as Moayad Ahmed Yasseen, also known as Abu Ahmed.

Muhammad's Army was known to have cooperated with Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and al-Qaida and Saddam loyalists and was responsible for killing and beheading a number of Iraqis, Arabs and foreigners in Iraq (news - web sites), Allawi said.

"They were planning to destroy Fallujah...by blowing up important positions," he said. "They have extensions abroad that I cannot talk about now." Allawi did not say how many members of the group were captured or what kidnappings the group has been involved in.

Apparently, when the US bombed some of the tunnels in Fallujah, there were secondary explosions for forty-five minutes. As someone commented over at Free Republic, "Teacher says every time there's a secondary explosion in the tunnels, a dozen Islamonazis get their wings..."

Unfortunately, there was a grisly discovery as well:

On the streets of Fallujah, Marines recovered the disemboweled body of an unidentified Western woman wrapped in a blood-soaked blanket.

It is not known if the body was of Margaret Hassan, the 59-year-old director of CARE international who was one of two Western women abducted last month. Polish-born Teresa Borcz Khalifa, 54, another longtime resident of Iraq, has also been missing since last month.

They neglect to mention the other reports that her limbs were hacked off, and her face disfigured. No report on whether these atrocities occurred prior to or after her demise. This is what they'd love to be able to do to all of us who don't share their vile world view. These are not people with whom we can, or should, negotiate. In fact, it's getting more and more difficult to think of them as people at all.

Sure they're people. That's why people are a priori not a particularly wonderful thing. Which is why being (say) American people is much more than a convenient label for a population's geographical location; cultural values matter and some cultural values are markedly better than others.

This is, in the end, the rock on which the postmodernist multiculti ship founders, and good riddance.

Forty-five minutes of secondary explosions?!!

The Iranians and the Europeans just lost a bunch of money in those exploding munitions.

Good. I hope we bankrupt them all while we're killing the islamonazis. Serves them right.

Careful, Rand. People (real people with a professed reverence for life) will start calling you an insensitive brute again.

Everyone knows that disembowling and cutting the limbs off unbelievers is just their way of expressing themselves. Who gave us furriners the right to interfere with them as they do what they want in their own country?

Yes, I suppose it's just a lifestyle (or in this case, a deathstyle) choice.

Yep, we value life, they value death.

Let's give them their wish.

To paraphrase Harry Harrison:

A culture is a human invention, like a fork or a computer. And some human inventions are just plain BAD.

These are not people with whom we can, or should, negotiate. In fact, it's getting more and more difficult to think of them as people at all.

First, this is true.

Second, how many "average" Iraqis fall into this category?

> Second, how many "average" Iraqis fall into this category?

Are they not their brother's keeper?

Since I'm going to get the blame for US troops, they can take the blame for their Arab guests.

I just hope for the sake of the Iraqi people, that these thugs don't take over. If they do, it will be an enormous bloodbath. I fear if the U.S. leaves to soon that they could take power.

...how many "average" Iraqis fall into this category?

None.

...how many "average" Iraqis fall into this category?

None.

Exactly! Therefore telling the difference between the Islamo-fascists and ordinary Iraqis is a mission critical task and supporting and protecting those who support our mission is essential.

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Cleaning out Fallajuh was an essential task done about 6 months too late, IMHO. Our failure to protect the average Iraqi (such as local mayors and interpreters who support us) is a big part of why I believe the current mission is FUBAR.

Perhaps cleaning out Fallajuh and Mosul is the begining of a winning strategy. One can hope.

That said, Andy Freeman's attitude will make winning the War on Terror more difficult than is necessary.