There are thousands ready to fill his shoes .

Wounding the hydra , itz !

There are thousands ready to fill his shoes .

Wounding the hydra , itz !

The typical Fox News watching White lemming will get a boner over this, meanwhile his MTV viewing teenage daughter is upstairs thinking about which nigger buck from school will ask her out for a date.

The typical Fox News watching White lemming will get a boner over this, meanwhile his MTV viewing teenage daughter is upstairs thinking about which nigger buck from school will ask her out for a date.

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Zarqawi was not the one leading the Iraqi resistance in any case. Bottom line: This will probably make the Iraqi resistance more effective.

This is what Gary Brecher -- aka War Nerd -- had to say about Zarqawi. As usual, Brecher is on the money.

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Mister Big Unplugged

By Gary Brecher

The more I hear about how Zarqawi's behind all the trouble in Iraq, the more it reminds me of a bad cop movie. Every cop movie has the same plot: they track down Mister Big and the crime ring gets broken. I remember a classic example, the Ninja Turtles movie, where it turns out the man behind a wave of juvenile delinquent crime wave is Shredder, a Ninja godfather. Actually Shredder was pretty cool, especially the thorn claws on his gloves. Not the kind of outfit you'd want to wear when operating heavy machinery, and probably a little hot for those NYC summer scenes, but slick in a WWF kind of way.

Then you read the real crime news and there is no Mister Big. It's a million little muggers and thugs, with no organization at all. Nobody puts that in a script because it's too depressing. If the problem is just one guy, you can beat it by killing or capturing him. If it's a million little nobodies, you're doomed.

So naturally the Pentagon PR ops have been trying to pin the Mr. Big tail on some Arab's ass. First it was Saddam. Everybody was so sure that once we snatched him out of his backyard hole, peace would break out. But attacks went up, not down, after he was captured. So we had to find another Mr Big, and that's how this Zarqawi became America's Most Wanted.

At least Zarqawi's a better nominee than Saddam. He's a real guerrilla operator, with a solid mujahedeen resume: born in Jordan, probably to Palestinian refugee parents, grew up in the town of Zarqa (his alias means "The Guy from Zarqa"), went to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets and got radicalized.

You know, what we should have done with all those brave Muslim volunteers who helped boot the Russkies out of Afghanistan was hold a big victory banquet in Kabul, thank them all for their contribution to Liberty:and then nuke the banquet hall. It sounds cold-blooded, but if you want to rule the world you have to do some stuff you won't want to tell your grandkids about.

Those guys had got used to blowing things up in the name of Allah and didn't feel like quitting just because the Russians went home. They went back to their native slums all over the world and started making no end of trouble. It was Afghan mujahedeen vets who taught the Somalis how easy it was to bring down a chopper, even one as well armored as the Blackhawk, by firing RPGs at the tail rotor. It's Afghan vets who form most of the effective Al Qaeda cells around today.

Zarqawi came home to Jordan around 1990, but didn't get the hero's welcome he was expecting. The Jordanians weren't so sentimental about the boys who went to Afghanistan. They threw him in jail. It may not have been due process, but it was a smart move. The dumb part was letting him out, which they did sometime in the late 90s. He hung out in Europe-have you noticed how these Islamic wackos can do whatever they want in Europe? It's like all you have to do is wear a big Taleban beard and an "I heart Jihad" t-shirt, and German or French immigration will wave you through the VIP line.

Zarqawi bounced around Pakistan and Iran, then ended up in northern Iraq working with a small Kurdish terrorist gang. Which suggests he's strictly small-time.

The reason these Jihadi websites keep making such a big fuss about Zarqawi's every move is basically the same one that keeps the Pentagon blaming everything in Iraq except the weather on him. They need a Mr. Big for their propaganda as much as we do. Except their version is a hero, Robin Hood in a greasy skullcap, always outsmarting the big dumb American crusaders. Essentially he's a great fundraising gimmick, a cross-eyed posterboy, for Al Q. They haven't done shit in years, and the only way they can keep the rich donors happy is taking credit for every blast in Iraq.

That may be why Zarqawi's PR men put out that very, very weird press release last week announcing that he'd been wounded in Iraq. If you know the rules of guerrilla war, you had to be shocked by that communique. Information is the only important weapon in this kind of war, and the last thing you want is to keep the enemy updated about where you're leaders are or how they're doing. Ideally the enemy shouldn't even know their names or have their pictures.

Here are a few possible scenarios for the press release:

1. Simple disinformation. In other words, Zarqawi ain't wounded, didn't leave Iraq, and may be doing something major inside Iraq. The release is designed to send the bloodhounds barking off in the wrong direction.

2. Zarqawi is dead. Maybe the news that he was hit got out, and his people are trying to buy time by keeping him "alive" for morale's sake. It's real hard to know when a guerrilla leader's dead. The Pentagon claimed Zarqawi was killed in an air raid in 2004. The Russians have claimed every Chechen leader was killed more times than a Hindu cat. Don't believe a guerrilla death claim any more than you would a guerrilla-war body count. Wait till you see the video:and then wait some more.

3. Not-so-simple disinformation. Maybe he died years ago. Maybe he doesn't exist. The whole Zarqawi business could be a Jihadi/Pentagon internet scam.

4. Small-Time PR. This is my bet: Zarqawi's real, he's been actually wounded, but he just doesn't matter much. He's one of these foreign romantics who get involved in somebody else's war, make a lot of noise, become a pinup star but don't rate among the real leaders.

Like I've said before, foreigners just don't cut it in a guerrilla war. Zarqawi, a Jordanian/Palestinian, can't disappear in an Iraqi crowd. That means most of his time has to be spent surviving. His face has been all over the net for years now, and there's a $25 million bounty on him. Like they say in spy movies, his cover is blown. No way he can be really useful as a guerrilla leader. That job puts you out on the street all day, moving through checkpoints, changing your identity non-stop.

If he's just another Jihadi, how come both sides, Al Q and the Pentagon, have been blowing Zarqawi so hard for all these years? Because both sides want to make the Iraq insurgency a classic Mr Big story. Al Q wants to give its own lame, James-Bond multinational crew credit for what's actually a homegrown, neighborhood-based Iraqi uprising. The Pentagon wants to put a face-an outside agitator's face-on the car bombers. America will do anything to avoid having to face the most obvious fact about Iraq: they hate our guts, all of them. Pasting Zarqawi's face all over the net also hides the fact that our so-called intelligence units still don't know a damn thing about the insurgency. It makes it seem as if we're hot on the trail of the one demon responsible for the whole mess.

Which suits the insurgents just fine. That's the most depressing angle of all on Zarqawi: it's not just the Pentagon and Al Q who are happy to keep him in the spotlight. The real bosses of the insurgency must get down on their knees every night and thank Allah for the Z-man, because he keeps the heat off them.

They're not Mr. Big. There is no Mr Big. They're more like a few thousand Mr. Middles, a whole crowd of ex-officers and clan leaders in every Sunni town or village who have some kind of loose control over some of the insurgents. Not all-there are hundreds of insurgent groups fighting, and nobody controls them all.

But it stands to reason that some of the bigger, more professional networks have real leaders. These guys will turn out to be solid, intelligent men, usually young-20s, early 30s-who get respect in the neighborhood. They'll be homegrown Iraqis with real standing in the clan and tribal networks that really run things in Iraq.

And they'll be anonymous. Guerrilla war kills off the glory-seekers like Zarqawi pretty quickly. The guys who last will be total unknowns, until the new regime gives them their medals when we finally give up on this mess.

They'll be shy by Arab standards, coolheaded types. Contrary to what the dumb-ass press keeps saying, the leaders don't need to "fuel" the insurrection. It's got all the fuel it needs. The Iraqis, not just the Sunnis either, are so pissed-off by now that the real leaders' job is mostly persuading the hotheads to take it slow, plan their attacks.

And when these guys get a little R&R, their favorite TV will be the nightly news, with pictures of this poor fool Zarqawi's beady-eyed face staring at them. They'll be cheering him on, just like the Pentagon boys and Al Qaeda fundraisers in Jakarta and Riyadh and Berlin.

That's the Zarqawi fan club-the weirdest bedfellows since Jackson and Culkin.

http://www.exile.ru/2005-June-03/war_nerd.html

That's some fine Gary Brecher. He understands the difference between soft morale and winning: the Jordanians threw a guy in prison without a trial, and they got more peace for it. We are used to hearing of how it's good to strike only in defence, wicked to strike first, but in the real world the guy who strikes first is usually the one who remains standing. The rest can take their noble morality and die with it. Then later you write heroic stories about yourself that have jack to do with reality.

Gary Brecher understands the difference between the flag-wavers, slogan-shouters who can't wait to go and be all noble, fighting like in the romantic books they've read - and on the other side you have the cool types who plan and win. The dumb masses cheer on the slogan-shouters, because they are the same as them except with less balls.

It's funny, people will swoon over some soldier who did some stupid move out in the field, got lucky and survived. But they will never hear nor care about the bean-counting economic planner who just saved every household ten dollars a month by excellent organizing, something that will benefit both the people and their war thousands of times more than the soldier who survived while nine others got killed doing the same thing.

What I like about Alex Linder is that he perfectly understands the difference between heroic drama and cool-headed resistance. Cool-headed resistance doesn't mean soft. It means you wait for the best opportunity to strike. It means you don't plan to win things by being a knight in shining armour. I don't want to start a new topic for debate, but a living Alex Linder does more than a dead Bob Mathews. Even though it's Bob Mathews who got the song.

by William S. Lind
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind96.html

Now, to see the situation as it is, turn that telescope around. Every firefight we win in Iraq or Afghanistan does little for our pride, because we are so much stronger than the people we are defeating. Every time we get hit successfully by a weaker enemy, we feel like chumps, and cannot look ourselves in the mirror (again, with IED attacks this happens quite often). Whenever we use our superior strength against Iraqi civilians, which is to say every time we drive down an Iraqi street, we diminish ourselves in our own eyes. Eventually, we come to look at ourselves with contempt and see ourselves as monsters. One way to justify being a monster is to behave like one, which makes the problem worse still. The resulting downward spiral, which every army in this kind of war has gotten caught in, leads to indiscipline, demoralization, and disintegration of larger units as fire teams and squads simply go feral.

"Zarqawi's body was then removed, brought back to a secure location," Caldwell said. "By visual identification it was established that that probably was him.

"But they ... did further examination of his body, found more scars and tattoos consistent with what had been reported and what we knew about him.

So we have a tattood freak (you all know islam forbids tattoos) "brought back" to a more secure location, where it apparently was before. Whatever they put there, and brought back, it isn't the cadavre of a muslim fighter. It looks they got something out of the freezer that could be useful now. Mr. Zarqawi Hitler has outlived his purpose. By ending the farce now there will be no awkward questions about the Haditha photos and the 50 billion extra for the war on goyim.

By Josh White and Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, July 21, 2005; Page A19

Morale among U.S. soldiers in Iraq has improved since the start of the war in 2003, and the soldiers' suicide rate dropped by more than half last year, according to an Army mental health survey released yesterday.

The Army's second Mental Health Advisory Team report paints an improving picture of how soldiers are handling their tours and how medical personnel are dealing with mental health problems. The team surveyed more than 2,000 soldiers from last August to October, and concluded that aggressive efforts to improve mental health care and to make soldiers aware of combat stresses have been successful.

A majority of soldiers fighting in Iraq, however, reported that morale is still a problem, with 54 percent saying that their unit morale is "low" or "very low," and only 9 percent reporting "high" or "very high" morale. During the first survey in late summer 2003, 72 percent of soldiers reported low morale.

The survey also reported that when soldiers were asked about their own morale -- as distinct from their unit's morale -- there was marked improvement from 2003 to 2004: 52 percent described their morale as low or very low in the first survey, and that number dropped to 36 percent in 2004.

"There have been substantial improvements made in the quality of life in theater, particularly access to air conditioned sleeping quarters, better facilities . . . better food and [dining facilities], and improved communication home through telephone and e-mail," according to the report, dated Jan. 30, 2005. "These likely help buffer the negative effects of combat."

The Army's Medical Command also has greatly increased the number of mental health professionals in the field. Acute or post-traumatic stress symptoms, for example, were still relatively prevalent problems -- affecting 10 percent of soldiers -- down from 15 percent in 2003.

Soldiers spoke frequently in the surveys about "the constant threat of serious harm or death," the anticipation of "never knowing when or where something bad would happen" and feeling like "sitting ducks" when on patrol because of roadside bombs, according to the report. More than 75 percent of the soldiers reported receiving incoming artillery, rocket or mortar attacks, and 38 percent said a roadside bomb or booby trap had exploded near them.

Lengthy deployment was the most commonly reported non-combat stressor, with 52 percent of soldiers reporting high or very high concern about the issue.

The suicide rate in 2003 for soldiers in Iraq and Kuwait was 18.5 per 100,000, and dropped to 8.5 per 100,000 in 2004. All of the nine confirmed suicides in 2004 in Iraq and Kuwait involved men who used a firearm, all but one were 30 or younger and seven involved low-ranking enlisted soldiers.

Also yesterday, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said a Pentagon report on Iraq that is expected to go to Congress this week will outline political and economic progress, but also state that "terrorists in Iraq remain effective, adaptable and intent on" waging highly lethal attacks on civilians and officials.

The report will conclude that "extremists continue to try to foment tension, ethnic strife and, indeed, even civil war between Sunnis and Shias," Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon.

Rumsfeld characterized the struggle in Iraq as primarily one between the Iraqi people and foreigners such as Jordanian-born insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi and other al Qaeda operatives who are inflicting "mindless carnage."

A supplement of the report will provide a detailed -- but classified -- assessment of the capabilities of the Iraqi security forces, which Rumsfeld said now number 171,500 and range from "battle hardened" to "as green as grass."

So we have a tattood freak (you all know islam forbids tattoos) "brought back" to a more secure location, where it apparently was before. Whatever they put there, and brought back, it isn't the cadavre of a muslim fighter. It looks they got something out of the freezer that could be useful now. Mr. Zarqawi Hitler has outlived his purpose. By ending the farce now there will be no awkward questions about the Haditha photos and the 50 billion extra for the war on goyim.

Isn't this about the fifth time they have killed Zarqawi? The best honest guess is that they actually did kill Zarqawi in April, 2003 in bombings in the Kurdish part of Iraq.

Enkidu

Fresh from the freezer.

If he was really the leader of the resistance, the military is completely imcompetent by not even trying to take him and his entourage alive.

Note how Bush the terminator thinks and talks like a stupid gangster.

VIDEO of the air strike starts about 30 seconds into it-
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/9338938/detail.html#

Why does he look so well preserved? If a 500 pound bomb was dropped on you wouldn't you ......be ..... blown to pieces?

[color="Red"]"And with regard to those left behind, who have not yet joined them (in their bliss), the (Martyrs) glory in the fact that on them is no fear, nor have they (cause to) grieve."

Years from now, when Filth like George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are stricken from history, school children will sing praises to the Martyrs, Men who fought for their people against the Great Satan.

Mr Maliki said intelligence from Iraqi people had helped track down Zarqawi, who had a $25m price on his head.

"What happened today is a result of co-operation for which we have been asking from our masses and the citizens of our country," he said.

Load up them cars boys!! The masses of asses ain't felt enough pain yet!

As if Hollywood's best couldnt come up with believable images of a dead anyone.

What would happen if Big Brother announced you were dead instead of just killing you for real?

And did this guy even exist for real in the first place?