The enemy is starting to turn on themselves.
…residents said the U.S-led offensive opened strains between the local insurgents and the foreigners. When a senior Zarqawi commander was found dead of a bullet to the head during the battle, many interpreted his death as the result of an insurgent execution.
Besides the commander’s death, the bodies of 20 foreign fighters also were found shot to death execution-style, military officials said.
Of this dead, speak only ill. Max Boot and Jeff Jacoby have appropriately harsh eulogies for the late monster of Ramallah, and equally harsh criticism of his European enablers who remain with us.
…weaponry.
Whenever I read things like this, I have to laugh at the idiots who accuse us of “mass murdering civilians,” and “blowing up countries” and being “indifferent to collateral damage.”
And the new de-vices are just in time for this:
“American commanders seem convinced that it is only a matter of time before the Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, gives the order for them to retake the city,” the Times notes. “For many marines here, that order cannot come too soon. After a long summer of cat-and-mouse games with shadowy insurgents, they are hungry for a decisive battle.”
The war in which we are today engaged didn’t start on September 11, 2001. It actually started exactly a quarter of a century ago.
It just took us over two decades to realize it.
Osama bin Laden: “…we have found it difficult to deal with the Bush administration…”
May it be so for another four years.
In the Arab News:
Nelson Ascher makes a very compelling case. If I were in his situation, I’d do the same.
Nelson Ascher makes a very compelling case. If I were in his situation, I’d do the same.
Nelson Ascher makes a very compelling case. If I were in his situation, I’d do the same.
Claudia Rossett (who deserves a Pulitzer for her reporting on the Oil for Palaces and Weapons scandal) has some appropriately ungenerous words for Kofi Annan.
Alas, such dignity may come as cold comfort to the French, given that Mr. Annan did not actually deny that the Chinese, Russians and French had taken big payoffs from Saddam. Mr. Annan merely disputed that the Chinese, Russians and French would have delivered anything in return for the bribes. In other words, they may be corrupt, but at least they weren’t honest about it.