U.S. Military Rescues 42 Iraqis From Al Qaeda Prison

Associated Press via FNC ^ | May 27, 2007

[M. Espinola]

Another defeat for al-Qaida’s thugs.

[denydenydeny]

What our troops are doing in Iraq is one of the great untold stories in history, and I mean it.

[Gondring]

Guaranteed that those are 42 Iraqis who love Americans.

Don't be so sure.

First of all, they likely blame the Americans for being in that prison in the first place.

Secondly, you're looking at this from a Western mindset. As an Army officer told me after returning from Iraq, "Logic is a totally foreign concept there... Iraqis simultaneously say both that 9/11 was a Mossad operation to make Arabs look bad--and that it was a great Arab victory against the West!"

I hope, however, that this isn't the case and they are grateful.

[Gondring]

Leftist sympathy with Islamofascist ideas makes no sense from an intellectual point of view, given that countries ruled by radical Islamists are among the most racist, sexist, theocratic states in the world today.

This is the great enigma...until you consider....

However, Leftists have recognized that they can benefit politically from destructive terrorist attacks on the Western world.

Horowitz is right on target.

[fedupcitizen]

Am I the only one concerned that al Queda has enough control of Baghdad real estate to run such a facility to have had prisoners for months in this type of situation?

[SunkenCiv]

Constant cherry picking one sided subjective opinion like riverbend short circuits objective logic and reason and over time fries the mind into a non-conductive bitter turd-for-a-brain.

I think that's just the reverse of what really went on there. ;')

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks E.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Am I the only one concerned that al Queda has enough control of Baghdad real estate

It wasn't in Baghdad.....see this:

Iraq Report: Attacking Mahdi, al Qaeda prison camp in Diyala

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In Diyala province, where al Qaeda has established a stronghold, Iraqi and U.S. security forces have broke up an al Qaeda "prison camp" and captured 7 al Qaeda during two separate raids. Today, a joint U.S. and Iraqi Army raid rescued 41 Iraqi civilians "showing signs of having been tortured or mistreated" from an al Qaeda run prison camp just south of the city of Baqubah. "Many of them showing signs of mistreatment ranging from broken bones and bruises to heat injuries caused by being held with insufficient water," AFP noted.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Time for Roy Rodgers and Gene Autry types to make an appearance...

[fedupcitizen]

I sit corrected. The Fox News story I had heard on this story on this morning at the gym made it sound like the prison was in Baghdad proper. Do you know how far the city is from Baghdad?

[WOSG]

PING FOR OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS WHO ARE DEFENDING FREEDOM。

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I thought it was 60 or 70 miles NE...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

click here for access to a map...from the Fourth Rail:

Map of southern Diyala.

[Marine_Uncle]

"Time for Roy Rodgers and Gene Autry types to make an appearance..."
Good idea. With their horses laden with bags of hand grenades and rounds of 7.62mm.

[dynoman]

I wouldn’t argue about that.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh...