Posted on 03/05/2005 11:57:09 PM PST by FairOpinion
In short...., OBL is a chicken shit punk, whose days are numbered. I know it's been three years since 9/11, but OBL and his closest advisers have sustained a serious blow.
Jayson over at polipundit.com nailed this one. If they are searching the EU they must be running out of suckers in Iraq. Sound about right to me. There will always be a couple ready to die on a muslim holiday :(
Gen. Abizaid said, that in the recent car bombing, they found the "suicide bomber" chained to the car.
FoxNews had the clip, but I didn't see it or read about it anywhere else.
And it looks like they are not getting a lot of volunteers from Europe either:
"Murck said he had no solid numbers for how many people might have gone from Germany to fight in Iraq, but added that it did not appear to be many.
"If you look at Hamburg, you can count them on two hands — those who have gone or who tried to go," he said.
And that correlates with the fact that so many of them have been wasted in Iraq that Paradise is running uot of virgins.
has anyone seen an estimate or hard numbers on total "insurgent" casualties ?
FYI
Thanks for the illustration.
Exactly right -- we used Iraq as a flypaper -- we rather fight the terrorits over there, than over here.
Too bad this Hamas KKK looking fanatic did not push the button as this photo was taken.
I hadn't heard that one. I did hear the one where they told the guy he was just going to drop off the truck to another driver up around the corner , when he stopped BOOM. He lived . And was mad, you probably saw it.
But this does add up to a bleak picture for the bad guys. Not that it ever wasn't .
Flypaper !!! It works !
Well, I haven't seen numbers about terrorist casualties, but I remember that at the beginning there was estimates of some 15 to up to 40,000 terrorists.
Gen. Abizaid said that based on the attacks on the day of the Iraqi election, when the terrorists "pulled out all the stops", they estimated that there are only around 3,500 terrorists around.
You do the subtraction.
I think that some actually gave up and blended into the population and "gave up their evil ways", but I bet a lot of them are no longer with us.
if those numbers are even close to being accurate, there are a lot of new residents in "paradise". thanks
"I did hear the one where they told the guy he was just going to drop off the truck to another driver up around the corner , when he stopped BOOM. He lived . And was mad, you probably saw it."
I hadn't heard that one.
Notice, how the MSM downplays these events, so as not to destroy the morale of the terrorists, whatever there is left of them, but they cheerfully report and distort things, which result in hurting the morale of our troops.
But despite of the MSM, the terrorists ARE losing, and the MSM won't be able to keep ignoring it much longer.
Also haven't they had to raise the price for the so called suicide bomber's to $100,000.?
Between freedom and flypaper the terrorist are disappearing.
I said this prior to the U.S. elections in November. Not quite like that...I said Bush has concentrated a large number of global terrorists into one place and it's a place where U.S. forces are massed. I don't know if he ever intended that, but it's brilliant.
I've also said to many naysayers on here that this is going to work and people need to be patient.
I guess I get to gloat just a little now. :-)
It's still active, but things are most definitely improving in Iraq.
But then the spin will be:
"They never really were much of a threat"
"Isn't it amazing how the Democrats in Congress and Liberals in Europe put an end to all this terrorism despite the bullying hegemony of the Bush administration?"
"Imagine how much sooner the terrorists would have been defeated if we weren't distracted by invading Iraq. Or if the French and Germans were allowed to participate. Or if Bill Clinton were still president."
I think the (typical and tired MSM) spin that recruiting is more successful in Europe because of Iraq is pure b.s. Everything I've read is that the non-Iraqi insurgents are almost entirely from neighboring countries. Fighting the U.S. ain't nothing -- in terms of rewards and, especially, of punishments -- like fighting the Russians (low morale, inept, ill equipped) or the Bosnian Serbs (corrupt, thuggish, ill disciplined). In most places where your itinerant islamists go jihading they can preen and posture as heroes, and much of the population treats them as such, or did in recent years. That ain't the case in Iraq. Their support is rapidly evaporating even in Sunni regions since the transfer of sovereignty and then the elections. Arab media is increasingly turning against them as well. Young men, particularly from tribalistic or "honor" cultures like those associated with Islam, won't make sacrifices if they can't be heroes, and perceived as such.
I'm no expert in any sense, but for whatever it's worth a year ago I would have guessed it would take 5 to 10 years to completely defeat the Iraqi insurgency. Now I'd guess 2 or 3 max. I'd also bet there will henceforth be a steady decline in insurgent/terrorist activity, with few if any significant rallies.
Again, I'm no expert, but I've found in pretty safe to far to assume the opposite of what the MSM predicts.
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