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One man’s terrorist is another man’s prison bitch:
U.S. and Iraqi forces have arrested the second most senior figure in al Qaeda in Iraq, National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie said on Sunday.
"I can say al Qaeda in Iraq is severely wounded,” he told a news conference.
He named the man as Hamed Juma Faris al-Suaidi, also known as Abu Humam or Abu Rana, and said he was the deputy to Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who took over the insurgent group after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. air strike in June ...
"He was hiding in a building used by families. He wanted to use children and women as human shields as our forces attempted to capture him."
Al Qaeda cheerleader John Pilger will be distraught. The veteran idiot recently rejoiced over the murder rate achieved by his beloved “resistance”:
In Iraq, in contrast to the embedded lie that the killings are now almost entirely sectarian, 70 per cent of the 1,666 bombs exploded by the resistance in July were directed against the American occupiers and 20 per cent against the puppet police force. Civilian casualties amounted to 10 per cent. In other words, unlike the collective punishment meted out by the US, such as the killing of several thousand people in Fallujah, the resistance is fighting basically a military war and it is winning. That truth is suppressed, as it was in Vietnam.
Only 10% of 1,666 bombs were directed at civilians in one month? Why, that’s but a mere 166, or five bombs every single day; good work, resistance! (By the way, isn’t it us warmongers who are meant to be cavalier about civilian casualties? Oh, I forgot; Pilger is a warmonger—for the other side.) Those killers have much to teach us:
Here in the west, as people abandon the political parties they once thought were theirs, there is much to learn from resistance movements in dangerous places and their tactics of informed direct action.
Most people know that IEDs are “improvised explosive devices”. Pilger thinks they’re “informed direct action”.
There is no difference in principle between the people’s movement that saw off the Israeli invaders and the stirring of people everywhere as they become aware of the real meaning of the ambitions and hypocrisy of Bush and his vassal, who want us to be ever fearful of and cowed by “terrorism” when, in truth, the greatest terrorists of all are them.
Headline on Pilger’s column: “The return of people power.”
OK here are some figures from the Brookings Insitution.
In July 2006 there were 53 multiple fatality bombings. Estimates are that 1,651 people were killed or injured in these bombings.
Total US service personnel killed or wounded in July was fewer than 500. Bearing in mind that these were killed or wounded in all types of actions, not just these bombings.So if 70% of bombs are actually directed against US forces, the insurgents must be sourcing their explosives from the same place as the Israeli Ambulance Hunting Squad.
No - I think i’ll stick with posterior extracted data with respect to what Pilger is saying.
Pilger’s position is totally consistent. He deplores the occasional act of deeply regretted and inadvertent violence inflicted on civilians in a just cause and thinks unrelenting and deliberate violence gleefully inflicted on civilians is the only way to respond.
...collective punishment meted out by the US, such as the killing of several thousand people in Fallujah...
Yeah, because the US arbitrarily selected Fallujah and levelled it with the express intention of killing as many civilians as possible. Nothing to do with terrorists congregating there and using it as a fortified power base for their activities.
He’s just plain gone. Whatever position he might have once occupied in polite society, those bridges are burned. I hope he’s not writing for any respectable, major publicatins in Australia any more because he certainly doesn’t share the basic assumptions that respectable publications are based on. If he really thinks replacing political parties with bombing campaigns is a step in the right direction, then 1) he needs to be shunned by anyone who loves democracy and 2) someone needs to keep an eye on him - just in case.
I found an accidental snippet of truth in that festering pile of agitprop.
“How familiar it all sounds. Merely replace Soviet Union and communism with al-Qaeda, and you are up to date.”
Yup Pillger got one thing right. Free world Vs subgigation.
I strongly believe that the hard left are entranced by the collectivist undertones of the jihadi movement. It has that lovely strong man, kill thousands, collectivisation, mass poverty, decline and failure aura that used to surround the Soviet Union.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 09 03 at 08:29 AM • permalinkSay he gets what he wants. Does he think that we will all just stand quietly in line awaiting our shackles? What if we decided to go for some of that “people power” he extols in such loving detail? Islam is the enemy, but Pilgers are traitors. I know which group would be at the top of my list to go first.
I am currently stationed in Baghdad. We’d be damn happy to have 70% of the explosions directed at us rather than at the civilian population. However, it just isn’t so.
If Pilger can’t figure out why sectarian violence also includes those attacks directed at Coalition Forces, he’s more than bad at numbers, he’s also bad at understanding military strategy. Worse than, say, the average saddamist terrorist who understands why.#8 Thefrolickingmole,
I don’t know what “subgigation” means but it sounds positively saucy!.
#9 saltydog,
He’s on the top of my list too. I’ll let you have the first shot, because I’m a gentleman.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 09 03 at 09:27 AM • permalinkYeah, because the US arbitrarily selected Fallujah and levelled it with the express intention of killing as many civilians as possible. Nothing to do with terrorists congregating there and using it as a fortified power base for their activities.
As I recall, Fallujah was surrounded and cordoned for a week, and civilians were warned to leave for the upcoming attack. There was a camp set up for them, even. The US was very careful in Fallujah.
The “thousands of civilians dead in Fallujah” line came from the jihadis and their fellow-travellers, who claim the US buried all the evidence in a mass grave under the soccer stadium in Fallujah.
Keep in mind that it’s certain civilians DID die in Fallujah, just not in the numbers claimed by our enemies, and not because the US didn’t care. Also, the claims of a massacre in Fallujah are intended to distract from what was found in Fallujah; the scenes of mass murder and torture committed by the jihadis.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 09 03 at 09:29 AM • permalinkFirst, thank you, Diggs, and all your compatriots for your service. You are true heroes.
Regarding
PigshitPilger, what is it with clowns like this? Is there something in their water? Moonbeams? Too many mind-altering drugs in their youth (or now)?And why does any supposedly respectable publication pay for this kind of masterbatory bullshit?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 09 03 at 09:33 AM • permalinkOh dear, looks like Adam Gadahn just rained on Pilger’s anti Western Imperialism parade. He exlpicitly thanks Galloway and Fisk for their sterling effort in spreading the propagand...I mean truth, but suggests that they should get off the fence and join the winning side. I guess Pilger is just upset he didn’t get a mention on the Al Qaeda list of influential Western Media apologists. He also asks Seymour Hersch to keep up the good work - (I wonder how the Washington Post / New York Times feels now!). I love the bit where Adam warns us to convert to Islam or die. I guess Pilger missed that bit of the Al Qaeda manifesto. I might take the advice of one wag at LGF who said he is going to convert - from semi to full auto. The showdown is coming whether we want it or not. As they say in Army circles, we might as well ‘tool up’.
Posted by platey mates on 2006 09 03 at 09:37 AM • permalinkPilger, resistance to what? You seem to see “resistance” everywhere
Throughout Latin America, mass resistance movements have grown
Here in the west, as people abandon the political parties they once thought were theirs, there is much to learn from resistance movements
There is no difference in principle between Pat Smith’s campaign of resistance and that of the people of Cochabamba
Oh, I know what it is: Capitalist Imperialism
Grow up man, before your daughter is forced to wear a burkha.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 09 03 at 09:59 AM • permalinkA fellow traveller to Pilger,Bob Brown of the Greens was taken to task by a “panel” of pollies reviewing the world without Don Chipp.Meg Lees,Peter Andren and John Hewson.
Franny thought she would have some good fed bashing with them but they would not be muzzled.
Franny “well with the Liberals in charge he might have said who’ll keep the bastards honest now.”
Things were said “you can’t buy the Democrats but you can rent them by the hour” and “Bob Brown is SO opportunistic”.
Franny shouts over the top of them “COULDN’T WE SAY he has conviction..”
“No he’s opportunistic” and “Bob Brown never SAVED a tree in his Life..”
Loose cannons Franny.Pilgery is still not an actionable offense. Amazing.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 09 03 at 11:30 AM • permalinkthere is much to learn from resistance movements in dangerous places and their tactics of informed direct action.
I heartily agree with Pigler. I hope we’ve learned enough about torture and beheading, in that order, from these Muslies to first apply it to Hamed, and then to find Pigler and give him a taste of how the Muslies make humane propoganda videos.Pilger is an out and out traitor, a propagandist (and a lying one at that) for the enemy, and he ought to dealt with accordingly.
Pilger better hope and pray that people like me don’t get political power, because if we do, we’re going to treat people like Pilger the same way that traitors like the Rosenbergs, and Lord Haw Haw were treated back in the days when treason was treated seriously.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 09 03 at 02:21 PM • permalinkPilger lauds the Iraqi “resistance” for its attacks on coalition forces and condemn the supposed mass slaughter by American troops. Yet in a previous article he praises the “resistance” as:
“Iraqis who have succeeded in pinning down the American homicidal machine in their country.”
The only resistance in history who define success as keeping evil civilian-murdering occupiers in their country.
The Pilger quote is from an piece originally entitled “Hizbollah are Heroes” before he changed it, I made a note of the original title on my own blog at the time.Bilger’s article is here.
#12: Also, I recall images showing much of the fighting at Fallujah been done by small groups of infantry going house-to-house. If the US had been more concerned about meting out “collective punishment” than eliminating enemy combatants while minimising civilian deaths, I imagine they would have instead used a lot more artillery and air strikes, flattening the town .
The choice in strategy probably resulted in more Marines been killed or wounded than was necessary, but the Americans made that decision knowing that they would greatly reduce collateral damage. I see that as been evidence supporting the exact opposite of what Pilger has been trying to claim.Meanwhile the AFP puts the usual mendacious slant on the deaths in the recent Lebanon war:
More than 1,200 people were killed in Lebanon, overwhelmingly civilians, as well as 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
Such a bald statement must have an agenda because it gives a 100% wrong picture.
1. Hezbollah could only attack Israeli soldiers in Lebanon [8 killed before the war even started] and they hit 20 troops by accident in Israel, aiming randomly at civilian areas.
2. Israel fought an illegal guerilla force who fired rockets and moved quickly within civilian areas which it had failed to evacuate, unlike Israel’s northern half.
Inevitably it unintentionally killed ‘civilians’ but the Lebanese Red Cross regarded all casualties as civilians anyway.The AFP is guilty of totally biased reporting.
“COULDN’T WE SAY he has conviction..”
Applying that to Pilger, his conviction in 1975-77 was that Pol Pot was a great ‘people power’ leader, that Vietnam was at last democratic, and the unprecedented numbers of boat people fleeing it were all traitors.
You could say Pilger has decades of ‘convictions’ as long as your arm..
Pilger is part of the underground and a good place for him.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 09 03 at 07:36 PM • permalinkWhat he describes are thugs.
People Power is 10 or 12 million people risking harm in order to vote and have their own say in how they’re governed. Those are the people the “resistance” is fighting. The oh-so-noble resistance is trying to take away the average person’s control of their own government and their own life and put it into the hands of thugs (hmmm, what does that remind of you in Iraq’s past?). How is that in any way admirable? How could anyone (Pilger included) who grew up in a country where they had the right to vote and a say in their government available to them as a matter of course praise the bombers and treat voters with such contempt?
Diggs—from my family to you and your comrades:
"Almighty God on High, omnipotent King, look down from Your Sanctified Abode, and bless the valiant soldiers of the Coalition Forces who risk their lives to protect the welfare of all Your creation.
Benevolent God, be their shelter and fortress, and to not allow them to falter. May harmony dwell in their ranks, victory in their battalion. Fill their hearts with faith and courage to thwart the evil schemes of our enemies and to abolish every rule of evil.
Protect them on land, in the air and in the sea, and destroy their adversaries. Guide them in peace, lead them toward peace, and return them speedily to their families alive and unharmed.
Grant us true peace in fulfillment of the prophecy: “Nation shall not lift up sword against another nation, nor shall they learn war any more.”
Let all the inhabitants of the world know that Dominion is Yours, and Your name inspires awe upon all that You have created. May this be Your will, and let us say, Amen."
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 09 03 at 08:26 PM • permalinkThe enemy changes its IEDs in response to our countermeasures. One effective response is an IED that is pressure-activated (for instance by using a hose with a ball bearing inside to complete the circuit) and then either buried under roads or thrown across roads at night-there are few effective countermeasures against these IEDs. Now, the problem with pressure-activated IEDs is that you have to not care who gets killed by them (and this is not so much of a problem for the bad guys).
Thus, they were able to use them to kill some of our guys during our time in the desert, but they also killed a good many innocent civilians who were just on the wrong road at the wrong time.
Pilger is completely full of shit.
Wanted: Minutemen
It seems asymmetric war means that, in the west, the enemy can operate in plain view. Much of society cannot even recognise the enemy because they are utterly befuddled by the moral relativism that permeates our education system. The rest of us are frightened by what beckons.Pilger and his ilk is undoubtedly a fifth columnists (no pun intended). Ironically, he prescribes the solution – people power. Western governments can deal with enemy combatants, but struggle to deal with the cancer eating at our bones. Will it fall to a few courageous citizens to deal with the enemy in our midst? Will their actions signal the beginning of the end, or the beginning of the new beginning?
Will it fall to a few courageous citizens to deal with the enemy in our midst? Will their actions signal the beginning of the end, or the beginning of the new beginning?
I think it has already started. Witness the reaction of the parents after Breslan (they’re still looking for pieces of the terrorists), or that group who refused to fly until some “asians” were removed from the plane.
Ordinary people aren’t stupid...at least here in the West. Damn, it’s starting to sound like an episode from the Lord of the Rings.
Note that it is 10% of BOMB attacks only.
If a “resistance” leader wants to threaten, intimidate and kill civilians he would use his gun and save the bombs for those capable of shooting back.
It is funny that, for Pilger, the governments in Afghanistan and Iraq elected by people don’t count because of opposition but in Venezuela it is the opposition that doesn’t count. And “In Lebanon...armed resistance… humbled the fifth-most powerful army in the world” Humbled! Israel is lucky Hezbollah stopped before the Israeli army was forced into the sea.
John Pilger is a tool. A massive tool.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2006 09 04 at 04:58 AM • permalinkPlease, could everyone stop associating shit with Pilger...it is simply too hard on shit, at least, to my mind.
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