Al Qaeda Claims to Have 12,000 Fighters in Iraq

Fox News ^ | 11/10/06 | AP

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CAIRO, Egypt — Al Qaeda in Iraq's purported leader vowed on Friday that his fighters would never rest until they have reached Jerusalem and destroy the White House.

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"......destroy the White House"

Athough I PhotoShopped this and it's completely fictional, this is a far more likely scenario then them destroying the White House. The grid coordinates for Mecca are correct and the GBU-43 is the official nomenclature for the MOAB. Fridays are as good a time as any and you have 5 potential TOT's for the target. Uh, Mecca, buh bye. I hope it never comes to this but who knows.

[LIConFem]

*boom*

[BenLurkin]

Nuke 'em.

And plop a nuke on Berlin while we're at it.

[BelegStrongbow]

The media really oughta slack up a bit. Going this nuclear on the war, just to get people to give the Dems some slack on their promises might just convince people to hire the adults back. AFter all, this news tends to make one think there really IS a war over there to win. Going to hire a bunch of peaceniks to win it? I'd rather hire the first 600 names in a NASCAR betting pool than the Democratic leadership.

They seem giddy. We should let them indulge themselves.

(And that's a great image, btw)

[Rummyfan]

Fridays are as good a time as any and you have 5 potential TOT's for the target.

Friday noon would be optimal! allah ak..... WHOOSH! WTF????

[Ben Mugged]

And they all voted Democrat in the last election.

[rjp2005]

The current Congress after Jan would never allow it.

[longhorn too]

The way I figure it that will be 864,000 virgins standing by.

[Redleg Duke]

12,000, maybe, if they count their dead.

[SirLinksalot]

12,000 fighters

One of our problems is we don't really have a good intelligence estimate of how many Al Qaeda fighters there really are.

The adminsitration has not even given a good indicator to the American public as to how many of these terrorist there are and how many we've killed.

All we're getting is how many of OUR SOLDIERS have been killed. We don't have any numbers of how many TERRORIST we've destroyed. Hence, the perception from the public that we're not making progress and that we're losing.

[tobyhill]

I'm not sure why the MSM is making so much more of this propaganda than all the other times some wacky Al-Qaeda wannabe speaks? It can't be because of the elections because it basically vindicates President Bush's position of fighting them there rather than here.

[Leg Olam]

The Whitehouse isn't in Jerusalem.

[Williams]

I've tried to explain many times that Mecca is an absolutely absurd target for the USA. When you hear even politicians say it, you are listening to a very ignorant individual.

Saudi Arabia has been an essential US ally for many decades. The takeover of Saudi Arabia is Al Queda's number one goal. Most moslem governments are allied with us or helpful in the war on terror.

There is no reason to even consider attacking the religious center of all moslems, including allies such as Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and many many others.

If you want to create a target at least use a site in Iran, which plainly is our enemy and supports terrorism. Syria is a very good place as well.

[Williams]

The MSM, like the democrats and liberals they are, have a totally bizarre view of Iraq and the World. So the impact of these statements on them is 180 degrees from what a sensible person hears.

[mass55th]

"Al Qaeda Claims to Have 12,000 Fighters in Iraq"

Whoop de frickin' doo! That's about equal to a flea on a camel's back in Iraq.

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Like the Mayor of Hiroshima's final words....."Damn! what was that noise.....???"

[Names Ash Housewares]

10,000 of them are eight years old.

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"The Whitehouse isn't in Jerusalem."

They were all asleep apparently that day in Geography/Camel Turd Molding class.

[WVNan]

How can that be? We all know that Al Qaeda is not in Iraq.

[Long Island Pete]

12,000 more willing participants to kill

[DJ Taylor]

"The media really oughta slack up a bit."

That's exactly what I expect to happen. Democrats pretended they were concerned for the safety of U.S. servicemen in Iraq and used U.S. casualties as an excuse to attack the GOP's conduct of the war. Their ploy was successful and they were elected, but now they can, and will, end the charade. The Democrats will now turn their attention elsewhere and we will hear very little from the MSM about U.S. casualties or how badly things are going in Iraq.

From now until the election of 2008, look for a never ending MSM diatribe about who is to blame for getting the U.S. into the Iraq war, with subpoena after subpoena and investigation after investigation of alleged GOP wrongdoers.

[tobyhill]

I think what is going on here is the perception switch. The MSM and the Democrats have known all along that winning is inevitable unless we pull out before the Iraqi Government can govern themselves and defend themselves so to avoid this too early of a pull out President Bush while looking more after America's interest above party Interest has offered the Democrats and MSM the credit for the victory and Rumsfeld's resignation for the victory. When victory is achieved now all the Democrats and MSM has to do is claim they forced the President to "change the course" which lead to the victory thus the victory is theirs.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Screw it.

Put a wall around our country. Pull all troops back and put them on the border to protect any invasion.

Then throw the UN out and confiscate every ambassadors residence and turn them into homeless shelters. Renovate the UN and make it low income housing.

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The Saudi's are an on again, off again ally at best. And they always will be. Although I agree with you that Mecca is not a good (though certainly a rich) target, we do need to find a suitable one and FAB it into oblivion. And another and another and another until they get the picture that we are no longer fiddle-farting around with the terrorists. What's a couple million crispy critters compared to a couple billion Christians and Jews?

[BelegStrongbow]

I think that what you say will likely happen, but I also think that the Dems want first to be able to take credit for the war's successrful conclusion, if they can. That is what I see as the impetus for the current raft of supportive stories in outlets that had nothing good to say on the subject and anything related to it.

What they want is to paint the rosy picture they COULD have painted just as truly before the election. Then the Dems move to reduce our presence, then the investigations and subpoenas begin.

These people have had a long time to think about this, one bears remembering.

[Williams]

Although Pakistan is an ally, it seems to me if one wanted to go "ape shit" to quote Gen. Kilgore, the lawless tribal region of Pakistan would be a possibility. More defined targets are the Iranian and Syrian military.

[Garvin]

So we can expect 12,000 more Terrorists KIA by the end of the year?

[DJ Taylor]

"but I also think that the Dems want first to be able to take credit for the war's successrful conclusion, if they can."

Iraq is a mess of the Iraqi's making and the Iraqi's ability to bring it to anything like a successful conclusion is highly doubtful. The Democrats will not put their hands on that war and they never intended to; they only used the war to entice voters to vote for them. As long as the war is going badly and the Democrats can continue to blame the GOP for starting the war, they will continue to use it for political advantage.

Never forget that Democrats had rather see our soldiers killed and our country defeated than to allow a Republican President to receive credit for winning a war. It happened in Vietnam, and it's happening again now.

[1forall]

until they have reached Jerusalem and destroy the White House.

Its been awhile since I had a geography class but I didn't think the White House was in Jerusalem.

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As tantalizing as that sounds, well.....

Although downright criminal ineptitude by the Jimmah Cahtah and Bubba Klintoon administrations allowed this wound to fester and grow into a massive systemic infection (and we are not without our failures too) we are well past the blame game stage. Let's face it, we have a problem of Biblical proportions on our hands. And if we do not stop it before it reaches the point of no return, the entire non-mooslime population of the world is screwed. The biggest problem is that most people either do not or will not recognize this problem for the horrific one that it is.

What's the adage about people with a substance abuse or gambling problem....."you can't fix the problem until you admit to yourself that you have one?"

[RoadTest]

"Al Qaeda Claims to Have 12,000 Fighters in Iraq"

Just line them all up like the ducks in a shooting gallery and we'll send them (they think) to their 72 virgins.

[BelegStrongbow]

History repeating itself would teach us this and you may well be right about the Dems' approach. I tend to think that having Vietnam and Iraq both go the same way for the same reason instigated and exploited by the same people will just be too much for too many.

Perhaps the Dems have the chutzpah to really try the same trick twice. I think the mess is not quite so bad as the media has presented it to be, hence it is as much a PR effort to re-spin the effort as it is the final wrap-up on the ground out there.

But you may well be right. It'll be very bloody and degrading, if so.

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"Its been awhile since I had a geography class but I didn't think the White House was in Jerusalem. "

These people didn't get to where they are because NASA wasn't hiring that day.

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We can't allow Iraq to fail just to show the world what a bunch of complete f'n idiots the dhimmicrats are. There is way too much at stake here.

[Tallguy]

How many of the 12,000 are still breathing?

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Fewer by the day, if the emails I get from guys still over there are accurate, which I am assuming they are.

[BelegStrongbow]

It may be taken out of 'our' hands. Just as the Dems condemned millions of Cambodians to death, just to get back to Nixon, clearly they are now prepared to do something like the same just to get back at Bush. Childish, yes, and also criminal. Hell will be a popular post-death destination for leadership Democrats. Meanwhile, we are in the position of having elected feckless politicians of no known patriotic bent.

No matter what 'we', as in you and I, want, there may be a lot of blood on the ground, just to prove a political point. I think that's just plain horrific, I don't have the words to convey how much I hate what may well happen.

I am pretty sure that every soldier now on station in Iraq or anywhere else, is now permanently on alert. No one is going to want to blunder into a Mogadishu situation where the faceless politicos can simply turn their backs and say they couldn't help and isn't it a shame.

That's the advice I have: eyes up, men. Your loyal and courageous leaders just got replaced by craven ones. Many Americans would love to have your back but those who really can won't. Eyes up.

[AngieGOP]

"The way I figure it that will be 864,000 virgins standing by."

What are they going to do when they run out of virgins? Are they going to get 72 girls who only didn't once?

[uncbob]

Put a wall around our country. Pull all troops back and put them on the border to protect any invasion.

Yep those fortresses and castles always worked and the bad guys just got tired and left

[Cowboy Bob]

Al Qaeda in Iraq's purported leader vowed on Friday that his fighters would never rest until they have reached Jerusalem and destroy the White House.

I guess the joke is on them. The White House is not in Jerusalem!

[bpjam]

12,000?? That's it?? How the f are we supposed to be 'losing' to these idiots? The media is so seriously brainwashed its painful to even listen to.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Sorry, I was being sarcastic. Forgot the tag.

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It always worked for these guys:

"Go away silly English pig-dogs, or I will be forced to taunt you a second time...."