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THE NIGHT THE SOLDIERS CAME
The Washington Post’s Jackie Spinner meets a calm and reasonable Baghdad resident who turned against the US after ... well, you’ll find out soon enough. The sequence of extracts below is altered from the original to more closely describe events as they are alleged to have occurred:
By all accounts, Imaad, 32, was a typical, mild-mannered college graduate who spoke English well and had quietly supported the U.S. presence in Iraq—until Jan. 5, the night the soldiers came.
The night they came—for vengeance!
His story about that night, told days later in his small living room, is the story of how the U.S. military made an enemy of one man during a 20-minute encounter.
A 20-minute encounter—with terror!
On the night of Jan. 5, Imaad and his mother, Um Imaad—both of whom declined to give their full names for fear of retribution—were watching a movie in the living room.
In the living room—of impending bloodthirsty murderingness! (reader: quit it. tim: okay)
Imaad said they were startled by a loud banging at the door. He went quickly to open it. When he did, Imaad said, there were about a dozen U.S. soldiers standing with their guns pointed at his head.
Every single one of them?
Imaad and his mother said the soldiers rushed in, ordering them to sit together while they searched the house. “You look poor,” Imaad recalled one of the soldiers saying. “Why?”
Seems an unusual thing for a soldier to say. Maybe he was a Sociology Commando.
Imaad answered in English: “I have not been able to find a job, although I’m a graduate of the College of Arts.” His heart was pounding, Imaad said.
As well it might. For we are about to reach this story’s moment of Hitchcockian ultra-horror:
The soldiers went to search his bedroom. He heard laughing, and then they called for him, he said. Imaad went to his room and saw that the soldiers had ...
2dogs, the mother probably owes her life to the fact that she hasn’t caught him at it yet. Not that the unclean magazines were for that purpose; they were research materials waiting to be scanned and posted on his new blog, “Iraq the Supermodel”.
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2005 01 24 at 12:15 AM • permalinkWhat’s odd is that so many lefties who think of themselves as feminists will nevertheless support people who think nothing of beating females into submission. What’s with that?
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 01 24 at 12:25 AM • permalinkMy BS detector is ringing as well. Yes, it’s possible that US soldiers might have behaved that way.
But it’s unlikely; troops on a raid are more interested in getting the job done than in humilating some self-starting satyr.
It strikes me that Imaad refuses to admit that he enjoyed his little pleasure, and when (ahem) exposed, simply couldn’t admit to his sins (or whatever). “I swear, Mum, the Americans forced me to do it!”
Sigh. More blame projection of Middle East short comings on Western Civilization.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 01 24 at 01:12 AM • permalink‘Unfair! After all, she let Imaad keep his girly mags.
“Imaad said he was embracing his Muslim faith as never before. He spends most of his time at the mosque praying or reading the Koran.”
Too bad it doesn’t have pictures.’___________________________________
Okay, there I was, loping along at a fine gallup with the rhythm of your play-by-play, and you just HAD to say the above!
Now, sir, please assume at least partial responsibility, and get your raggedy-ass over here to help sponge the highly sugared coffee off my PowerBook…
(Hmmm, sugar in the inerds of my computer = sugar in my gas tank? You may be hearing from my attorney…)
?” Um Imaad brought Imaad pills from the doctor to try to calm him.’ “All these belong to Jewish people,” he said, pushing one set aside. “And these others are from bad or foreign people.”
so which pills were left? iraq aspirin? and why has he got everyone else’s pills anyway, the little druggy punk. anti semitic AND a mother basher to boot.
this so called article is so bloody funny, I cant believe it was published? I can see a bunch of troops doing a house to house looking for insurgents and wasting 20 mins looking at B grade bra catalogues. At least the poor boy has got an arts diploma
how stupid are the people that write this cr@p?
Didn’t Ummy have any sisters that he to resort to running dogs of capitalism porn magazines? I hope the soldiers ‘shot’ a picture of the poor boy with his Koran and his porn. Maybe they’ll start their own blog entitled, “Islamic Hypocrites.”
You ask why feminists don’t speak up against violence toward women? Because the feminist movement is just another branch of the leftwing nutcase movement against the U.S. and capitalism, they don’t give a cr@p about women, justice or peace
Boy, reporters will swallow anything.
Posted by Andrea Harris on 2005 01 24 at 02:23 AM • permalinkSomeone should refer this guy to the later years of Howard Hughes. He’d relate. “My medicine is made by Jews! Foreign television is controlling my mind! The Americans are conspiring against my women! My precious women, such lovely glossy pages…” *random violent outburst*
Posted by Aaron - Free Will on 2005 01 24 at 02:57 AM • permalinkHe looked at the yellow ones, then the red ones and refused to take them. “All these belong to Jewish people,� he said, pushing one set aside.
Wow! Looks like John Safran’s fake 3AW eccies turned up in Iraq! Those leb dealers sure don’t waste anything.
As for the rest of the story, he sounds like pretty typical Arts graduate to me.
He spends most of his time at the mosque
where he probably keeps the rest of his stash hidden under the prayer mats.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2005 01 24 at 03:08 AM • permalinkYes, the young fellow stands up at the mosque every week, waving a copy of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and yelling, “From my cold dead hands!”
Now let me get this straight — the WaPo is upset because the US army traumatized a freaking unemployed arts major who still lives off his mommy and reads dirty books in his bedroom?
I’m upset they had to go to all the way to Iraq to do this. We have cities full of this loser over here…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 01 24 at 04:20 AM • permalink“All these belong to Jewish people,� he said, pushing one set aside.
Wow! Looks like John Safran’s fake 3AW eccies made it to Iraq! Those leb dealers sure don’t waste anything.
He spends most of his time at the mosque
where he probably keeps the rest of his stash hidden under the prayer mats.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2005 01 24 at 05:21 AM • permalinkImaad should be thanking the Marines, since masturbation is haraam.
A discussion of self-pleasuring and the Koran follows:
http://thetruereligion.org/modules/ipboard/index.php?showtopic=168
As a test of his devotion, Imaad should recite verses of the Koran while staring at nude photos of Playboy’s Miss October 1988, Australia’s Shannon Long:KORAN VERSE:
The Smoke
1. [44.54] Thus (shall it be), and We will wed them with Houris pure, beautiful ones.
SHANNON LONG:http://playmateworld90.free.fr/Galleries/1988/88_10Shannon Long/shannon_02.jpg
KORAN VERSE:The Prohibition
1. [66.5] Maybe, his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your place wives better than you, submissive, faithful, obedient, penitent, adorers, fasters, widows and virgins
SHANNON LONG:http://playmateworld90.free.fr/Galleries/1988/88_10Shannon Long/shannon_07.jpg
KORAN VERSE:The Rangers
1. [37.48] And with them shall be those who restrain the eyes, having beautiful eyes;
SHANNON LONG:
http://playmateworld90.free.fr/Galleries/1988/88_10Shannon Long/shannon_06.jpg
Stay pure, Young Jihadi....saw that the soldiers had ... found several magazines he kept hidden from his mother… [and] spread the magazines on his bed and put his Koran in the middle.
Thank heavens. I was afraid it was going to be something along the lines of Imaad went to his room and saw that the soldiers having rifled through his panty drawer were cavorting about wearing several pairs on their heads. Now that would have been Hitchcockian horror.
Let’s be fair to Imaad. I’m sure he only has those magazines for their articles.
And richard mcenroe is right. This little scenario plays out hundreds of times a day right here in the good old USofA (ok, maybe not with the armed soldiers and all). No need for the silly Ms. Spinner to go all the way to Baghdad.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2005 01 24 at 07:50 AM • permalinkIt’s curious that a knock on the door in the middle of the night is what is anxiety-producing, considering the courtesy of knocking. It shows the strength of civilization.
Mother-hitting shows the opposite, giving way to temptation. Giving way to temptation is rampant, in fact. Yet giving way to temptation does not produce anxiety. That is why hitting mothers is not the theme of hard-hitting investigative news stories. News stories are organizers only of anxiety. Readers demand it.
I’m struck by something else: “On the night of Jan. 5, Imaad and his mother, Um Imaad—both of whom declined to give their full names for fear of retribution”.
Er, “Um Imaad” just means “Imaad’s mum”. It’s not a name, it’s a title. Throughout the rest of the piece, when Spinner keeps referring to the mother as Um Imaad, all she’s really saying is “Imaad’s mother” - so why not just say so? Why use Arabic for this particular word instead of English? She doesn’t use the Arabic for “television” or “mosque”, or “feelthy peectures”, so why the Arabic for “mother”?
Unless, of course, Spinner has no idea; but if she knows so little about the culture she’s writing about, why is she writing about it?
So Spinner’s saying, “Imaad and his mother, Imaad’s Mother”
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 01 24 at 08:24 AM • permalinkYou have heard of pyramid selling?
How about Pyramid Oppression?
That’s where all they way down the line, through every level of society, intimidation is used to achieve the desired result - submission. If the mum was not a mum, she’d just have to kick the cat.
Why are the feminists so silent?
Compassion Failure cuts in where things happen which are outside the real area of interest - usually the local political area. As long as Emily’s List is still financial and afloat, womens collectives thriving, grants flowing for really esoteric projects, that’s what matters.spread the magazines on his bed and put his Koran in the middle.
Um, not to be a nitpicker or anything, but how does he know they did this deliberately and weren’t just tossing stuff on the bed at random as they pulled it out of his chest of drawers/bookcase/whatever? The reason I’m wondering about this especially is that presumably Imaad’s Koran was in Arabic. How did they *know* it was a Koran and not just some random book? Unless one of them was an Arabic reader, but that’s not common.
So Spinner’s saying, “Imaad and his mother, Imaad’s Mother”
Yes. It’s perfectly common in Arabic culture for a woman to be referred to primarily as “X’s mother” (“um X”), especially if she’s a widow with only one son. It’s also common for men to be called “X’s father” (“abu X”), if they have a son they’re particularly proud of, or who’s well known.
Embarrassment? You don’t know the half of it.
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2005/01/i_though_i_woul.html
/linkpimp
Sonetka — They could feel themselves getting stupider as they held it, so they knew it was a Koran…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 01 24 at 10:48 AM • permalink“Um Imaad brought Imaad pills from the doctor to try to calm him.’ “All these belong to Jewish people,” he said, pushing one set aside. “And these others are from bad or foreign people.”
If only Clinton hadn’t bombed that Sudanese Aspirin factory into submission, Imaad could feel better now. But no, always those dastardly Americans…
Now I can’t know what it’s like to have troops search my house- it can’t be pleasant. But hey, it was his Koran and his porno. He kept them both. How far apart from each other did he feel it was necessary to keep them? Apparently the psychological distance was far greater than the physical distance.
Long distance psychoanalysis aside though, what the hell? You’re 32 years old, a college graduate, living with your mom, your porno stash is discovered, and you beat your mom? I don’t care how liberals rationalize cultural differences- that’s just fucked up.
Posted by Brian O'Connell on 2005 01 24 at 11:33 AM • permalink“how does he know they did this deliberately and weren’t just tossing stuff on the bed at random as they pulled it out of his chest of drawers/bookcase/whatever?” They built a little fort out of them, and put the Koran inside, of course!
Posted by Aaron - Free Will on 2005 01 24 at 11:38 AM • permalinkWhich magazines do you suppose he likes? Naked Septums? Barely Seeable?
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2005 01 24 at 11:53 AM • permalink... [They] found several magazines he kept hidden from his mother. They had pictures of girls in swimsuits and erotic poses. Imaad said the soldiers spread the magazines on his bed and put his Koran in the middle. While the soldiers went next door to search his neighbor’s house, Imaad began to slap his mother, he said. “The American people are devils,” Um Imaad recalled her son repeating.
...Then quickly thinking of what his idol Uday would have done he grabbed the devil magazines and his mother and searched for a shredder… any shredder… he was in luck. At the UN office there as and industrial shredder used to destroy devil documents such as the ones connected to oil of food scandal. But, the guards told him they would have to get permission to shredded this girlie magazines and his mother from the UN Under-Secretary-General for Iraqi Social Affairs. I’mMad began to slap his mother…
He was then handed a 26 page request for to be filled out and submitted to the Under-Secretary-General for Iraqi Social Affairs. He studied the documents and concluded that it futile to shred his magazines let a lone his mother I’mMad began to slap his mother…His family brought his some pill to calm him down. I’mMad, tossed them on the floor realizing they were the devil’s pills…He began slapping his mother...
When did George Costanza convert to Islam and move to Iraq?
Posted by eddie haskell on 2005 01 24 at 12:23 PM • permalinkrumsfeld will have to resign over this scandal.
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 01 24 at 12:44 PM • permalinkWhat’s the point of Singer’s article? To make readers feel sorry for an anti-semitic, mother-bashing masturbator? Even WaPo readers aren’t that gullible.
Or is it satire? Sending up the manufactured sensitivities that get the vapors about terrorists behind bars, but turn a blind eye to the gassing of the masses? Nah, WaPo readers aren’t that astute.One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that the Jews give you
Don’t do anything at all.
Go ask Imaad
When he’s ten feet tall.Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2005 01 24 at 03:17 PM • permalink
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Look, Imaad, flog your log as much as you like, just don’t flog your mum, ok?