“You were in Baghdad for six hours. You weren’t even in the real Baghdad. You were in the Green Zone. That’s like going to the Olive Garden and saying you’ve been to Italy.†— Jon Stewart, On Bush limiting his Iraq visit to Baghdad’s Green Zone, Jun. 15, 2006 “That’s his privilege as Vice President. He was tough, demanding, and when he thought I was out of line, he snapped my garters.†— Colin Powell, In an interview with AARP…
Finally, it looks as though there has been some valuable on-the-ground intelligence. The Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (real name Ahmed Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalayleh), the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq, is dead. As far as we know, he was the top guy in charge of kidnappings, beheadings and suicide bombings. Of course, our propaganda campaign may have exaggerated his importance to some degree, but however he got there, Zarqawi was considered the figurehead of the Sunni insurgency. He is said to be…
Well, I guess they needed something for the polls. It was good timing for terrorism… London wins the Olympics, the G8 is going on – everyone is celebrating, then POW! Multiple bombings on the London Metro, something like 40 people dead and 1000 injured, railway cars smashed, a bus exploded. Blair links it to the G8. The “Secret Al Qaeda Jihad Organization in Europe” that claimed responsibility for the London attacks says that they did so as retaliation for Britain’s…
Haven’t seen it on our news sites yet, but Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation claim that al-Zarqawi has been arrested in Bagouba by US Forces. The people of Falluja have “repeatedly accused US forces of using Zarqawi as a pretext to demolish a city of 300,000 in an attempt to quell its resistance to the occupation” but many in the Iraqi resistance oppose his methods and have distanced themselves from him. Will they find a new figurehead for the next city…