BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 5, 2007

Al Qaeda Deputy Defends Iraqi Insurgents

Ayman Al-Zawahiri Urges Muslims To Support Islamic State Of Iraq's War Against U.S. Military

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    The recent U.S. troop surge in Iraq may be starting to have an effect, as a new video calls for Muslims around the world to join al Qaeda against the U.S. and Israel. Stacy Case reports.

    • Ayman al-Zawahiri did not mention last week's failed car bombing attempts in Britain, which British authorities are investigating for al Qaeda links. Photo

      Ayman al-Zawahiri did not mention last week's failed car bombing attempts in Britain, which British authorities are investigating for al Qaeda links.  (CBS)

    • Iraqi women line up to buy petrol in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 4, 2007. Sunni Arab and Kurdish politicians and a powerful Shiite party said Wednesday they had not agreed to a draft bill to regulate the country's oil industry, raising the possibility of new delays in a major piece of benchmark legislation sought for months by the U.S. Photo

      Iraqi women line up to buy petrol in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 4, 2007. Sunni Arab and Kurdish politicians and a powerful Shiite party said Wednesday they had not agreed to a draft bill to regulate the country's oil industry, raising the possibility of new delays in a major piece of benchmark legislation sought for months by the U.S.  (AP Photo/Mahmoud al-Badri)

    • A U.S. soldier looks from a roof top during a mission in Baqouba, Iraq, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Wednesday, July 4, 2007. U.S. and Iraqi forces are trying to take control of the town from militant and terrorist groups. Photo

      A U.S. soldier looks from a roof top during a mission in Baqouba, Iraq, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Wednesday, July 4, 2007. U.S. and Iraqi forces are trying to take control of the town from militant and terrorist groups.  (AP Photo/Talal Mohammed)

    • Newly naturalized U.S. Marines raise their hands during a ceremony at Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 4, 2007, at which they reenlisted and some were naturalized as United States citizens. Around 160 troops from 52 countries were given U.S. citizenship during the ceremony. Photo

      Newly naturalized U.S. Marines raise their hands during a ceremony at Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 4, 2007, at which they reenlisted and some were naturalized as United States citizens. Around 160 troops from 52 countries were given U.S. citizenship during the ceremony.  (AP Photo/Ali al-Saadi)

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    A daily diary with scenes of the latest attacks and snapshots from the effort to rebuild a nation.

(CBS/AP)  Al Qaeda's deputy leader sought to bolster the terror network's main arm in Iraq in a new video released Thursday, calling on Muslims to rally behind it at a time when the group is on the defensive, faced with U.S. offensives and splits with other insurgent groups.

Ayman al-Zawahiri defended the Islamic State of Iraq — the insurgent umbrella group headed by al Qaeda — against critics among Islamic militant groups, saying it was a vanguard for fighting off the U.S. military and eventually establishing a "caliphate" of Islamic rule across the region.

Al-Zawahiri, the top deputy of Osama bin Laden, called on Muslims to follow a two-pronged strategy: work at home to topple "corrupt" Arab regimes and join al Qaeda's "jihad," or holy war, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia to fight and train "to prepare for the next jihad."

The Egyptian militant did not mention last week's failed car bombing attempts in Britain, which British authorities are investigating for al Qaeda links. That suggested the video, posted Thursday on an Islamic militant Web site, was made before the events in London and Glasgow.

Al Qaeda's declaration of the Islamic State of Iraq last year was a dramatic move aimed at staking out its leadership of Iraq's insurgency. Allying itself with several smaller Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups, it presented the Islamic State as an alternative government within Iraq, claiming to hold territory.

The move quickly met resistance. Some Islamic extremist clerics in the Arab world said it was too soon to declare an Islamic state because the Islamic law qualifications were not yet met and argued that a true Islamic state is not viable while there are still U.S. forces in Iraq.

Several large Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups publicly denounced al Qaeda, saying its fighters were killing theirs and pressuring them to join the Islamic State. One group, the 1920 Revolution Brigades, has begun overtly cooperating with U.S. forces and Sunni tribal leaders to attack al Qaeda.

In other recent developments:

  • The U.S. military said two American soldiers died and two others were wounded by a roadside bomb in south Baghdad. The bomb used was an explosively formed penetrator, a type of weapon that is provided to Iraqi extremists by Iran, the U.S. military said. Iran denied the allegation. No further details about the incident have been released.

  • Prime Minister John Howard insisted oil had nothing to do with Australia's involvement in the Iraq war, contradicting his defense minister who said Thursday that protecting Iraq's oil supplies is one of his country's motivations for keeping troops there.

  • Iraq's Shiite and Kurdish leaders on Thursday were trying to overcome a Sunni Arab boycott of the Cabinet of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, which threatens to hold up a key new oil law. The United States is pressing hard for passage of the long-delayed oil law in hopes it will encourage Sunni support of the government.

  • With hundreds of civilian contractors killed in Iraq since the war began, some lawmakers are taking a closer look at the costs and benefits of hiring private soldiers. CBS News correspondent Cami McCormick reports a new movie sparked some of that scrutiny. Podcast

  • U.S. forces killed 10 insurgents in a raid Wednesday on a suspected al Qaeda hideout in western Anbar province, the military said in a statement. In a separate battle earlier this week, U.S. troops killed 25 insurgents outside the city of Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, the military said.

  • Three suicide car bombers hit police checkpoints in Baghdad and the western cities of Ramadi and Habbaniyah, killing nine policemen and two civilians. A car bomb hit a popular restaurant outside the northern town of Beiji on the highway to Baghdad, killing three civilians and wounding 12 people.

  • In northern Iraq, police found the bodies of two members of the minority Yazidi religious sect who had been reported kidnapped three days earlier in the city of Mosul, police said. The bullet-riddled body of an abducted police colonel, a Sunni Kurd, was found in Baghdad.

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    by tbweb July 5, 2007 12:30 AM EDT
    Well I guess this delays that long planned 2 month vacation while they iron out their differences! Meanwhile back at the ranch, 3,585 are dead while they dabble and we want to come home now so lets get on with it! Please!
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    by formrusmcsgt July 5, 2007 2:09 AM EDT
    "We are ready to take steps that will lead us to a brighter future where democracy will reign," he said.

    If it were only true......
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    by randalds July 5, 2007 3:39 AM EDT
    I'm still wonder where the 11 Billion dollars that Iraqi oil brought while the US was running the ministry went to? Supposedly it was being held for the new Iraqi government, but it just plain went missing. 60 Minutes did a wonderful piece on it about 32 years ago, but nothing has been heard sense. I guess it's just one of those things huh? Along with the deaths of all of troops in vain it's all part of the price of turning a profit through war.
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    by randalds July 5, 2007 3:42 AM EDT
    "60 Minutes did a wonderful piece on it about 32 years ago,"

    Dam*n typos. Of course that should read 2 years ago. No idea where that 3 came from. Must be fat fingers.
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    by ajmarine1 July 5, 2007 4:03 AM EDT
    We are ready to take steps that will lead us to a brighter future where democracy will reign," he said.

    If it were only true......

    Posted by formrusmcsgt

    It's past time to take those steps.
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    by smirk5 July 5, 2007 5:01 AM EDT
    "BAGHDAD, July 4 - Nearly five months into a security strategy that involves thousands of additional U.S. and Iraqi troops patrolling Baghdad, the number of unidentified bodies found on the streets of the capital was 41 percent higher in June than in January, according to unofficial Health Ministry statistics.

    During the month of June, 453 unidentified corpses, some bound, blindfolded, and bearing signs of torture, were found in Baghdad, according to morgue data provided by a Health Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. In January, 321 corpses were discovered in the capital, a total that fell steadily until April but then rose sharply over the last two months, the statistics show."
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19604814/

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    by lars008-2009 July 5, 2007 9:30 AM EDT
    'Infidel' Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali Brings Her Incendiary Views on Islam to Washington
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602145.html
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Real Time w/Bill Maher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpk7SNVlagQ
    http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Ayaan+Hirsi Ali&hl=en
    THE HAGUE, The Netherlands -- Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who wrote the script of a controversial film on Islam that sparked the murder of director Theo van Gogh, is working on a third installment of the Submission series.
    http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20051215-051359-5447r
    Submission, part 1
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7106648073888697427
    Slaughter And 'Submission'
    Creator Of Dutch Film Vows Sequel Despite Muslim Death Threats http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/11/60minutes/main679609.shtml
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali interviewed on Danish TV
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8198629605452328823
    Former Dutch Politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Radical Islam
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8385275811093378481
    Former Dutch Politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Radical Islam (Part 2)
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3737905753674422062
    "We Must Declare War on Islamist Propaganda"
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,356485,00.html
    Hirsi Ali on Film over Position of Women in Koran
    http://www.dnd.nl/showarticle.php3?newsID=15018
    http://ayaanhirsiali.web-log.nl/categorie/46044
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    by lars008-2009 July 5, 2007 9:33 AM EDT
    non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of fascist nazi terrorislam imperialist empire of the darkside...

    it's fascist nazi terrorislam stupid...

    Brigitte Gabriel
    War has been declared on Christians, Jews, non-Muslims and secularists worldwide by Islamic extremists...simply because we are infidels according to their belief. As Islamic fundamentalism spreads its tentacles worldwide, it is crucial for the people of the Western world to understand the danger, know what to expect, and know what to do about it.

    Threats and realities of forced conversions to Islam, beheadings, torture and murder are quickly becoming commonplace. They%u2019re rarely mentioned in the news and when they are, it%u2019s with a disclaimer%u2026the word %u201Cinsurgent%u201D has replaced the truth of %u201Cterrorists.%u201D

    http://www.americancongressfortruth.com/
    Christian Persecution
    http://www.americancongressfortruth.com/media1/Christian_Persecution2.wmv
    Brigitte Gabriel explodes Mideast 'lies'
    Israeli Arab explodes Mideast 'lies'
    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43175
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    by lars008-2009 July 5, 2007 9:36 AM EDT
    non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of fascist nazi terrorislam imperialist empire of the darkside...

    it's fascist nazi terrorislam stupid...

    I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
    By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair's bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
    More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770

    Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
    http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan
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    by lars008-2009 July 5, 2007 9:39 AM EDT
    NONE OF US IS FREE UNLESS ALL ARE FREE!!!

    WHY IS IT NOT ONE MUSLIM COUNTRY GRANTS EQUAL RIGHTS TO NON MUSLIMS???

    FASCIST NAZI ISLAM SAYS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATES ISLAM LAW...

    Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

    For example, in 1981, the Iranian representative to the United Nations, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, articulated the position of his country regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by saying that the UDHR was "a secular understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition", which could not be implemented by Muslims without trespassing the Islamic law.

    http://www.un.org/terrorism/
    http://www.un.org/terrorism/strategy-counter-terrorism.html
    http://www.un.org/

    But the accepted assumption in India is that most of India's Muslims were converted to Islam through the sword. Meaning the Indians were given an option between death or adopting Islam. The third option was getting examined in Islam religion along with heavy taxes- Jeziya (poll tax) and Kharaj (property tax).

    http://adaniel.tripod.com/Islam.htm

    this is what fascist nazi islam calls peace....

    are you ready to live under islam rule as a non muslim???

    apartheid fascist nazi islamic style

    Rights of Non-Muslims in an Islamic State
    http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/islamic_state.htm
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    by lars008-2009 July 5, 2007 9:43 AM EDT
    there is no peace with fascist nazi islam%u2026.. there never has been in it%u2019s 1400 year existence%u2026

    dnc are like john adams and want to give the jihadist their lunch money hoping they will leave us alone....

    gop are like thomas jefferson and want to spend their lunch money on weapons and go kick the jihadists in their arses.....

    What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad

    Thomas Jefferson knew about fascist nazi islam..... he killed plenty of them....

    In 1786 Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman or (Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves. Jefferson reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:

    The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet (Mohammed), that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to heaven.[1]
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
    http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/jeff_quran.htm
    muslim justifies slavery and piracy%u2026
    http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?6bdec278-6a71-4436-bc4d-29d1c54b0ad7
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    by lars008-2009 July 5, 2007 9:47 AM EDT
    Is islam a violation of international law???

    islam practices slavery on non muslims
    islam practices apartheid on non muslims
    islam practices rape on non muslims
    islam practices rape on babies and animals
    islam practices genocide on non muslims

    all are violations of international law and are crimes against humanity

    Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/22/world/main2505445.shtml
    Imam Khomeini - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution
    http://www.homa.org/Details.asp?ContentID=2137352826&TOCID=2083225445
    Malaysia women 'suffer apartheid'
    The daughter of Malaysia's former prime minister has launched a scathing attack on the roles and status of Muslim women in the country.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4784784.stm
    A matter of tolerance
    http://musingwithmarinamahathir.blogspot.com/2006/12/matter-of-tolerance.html
    Marina Mahathir
    http://musingwithmarinamahathir.blogspot.com/
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=slavery+islam&btnG=Search
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=slavery muslim&btnG=Google Search
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4795808.stm
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=apartheid islam
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=apartheid muslim
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rape islam
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rape muslim&btnG=Search
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=genocide islam&btnG=Search
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    by lars008-2009 July 5, 2007 9:49 AM EDT
    non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of fascist nazi terrorislam imperialist empire of the darkside...

    it's fascist nazi terrorislam stupid...

    the war that fascist nazi Islamic muslims started rages on 1400 years later...
    The Truth about Islamic Crusades and Imperialism
    Historical facts say that Islam has been imperialistic%u2014and would still like to be, if only for religious reasons. Many Muslim clerics, scholars, and activists, for example, would like to impose Islamic law around the world. Historical facts say that Islam, including Muhammad, launched their own Crusades against Christianity long before the European Crusades.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/11/the_truth_about_islamic_crusad.html
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/08/the_muslim_crusades.html

    Islamic origins
    http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/compass/hico_058.pdf
    Origin of Islam
    http://www.allaboutreligion.org/origin-of-islam.htm
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Origin+of Islam%3A Secular History

    Muhammad suicide attempts
    http://www.answering-islam.de/Main/Silas/suicide.htm
    http://www.answering-islam.de/Main///Silas/fatrah.htm
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    by lars008-2009 July 5, 2007 9:52 AM EDT
    it's fascist nazi terrorislam stupid...

    IT IS TIME TO DEFEAT FASCIST NAZI ISLAM ONCE AND FOR ALL%u2026

    In 1786, Thomas Jefferson, then U.S. ambassador to France, and John Adams, then American Ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Dey%u2019s ambassador to Britain, in an attempt to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress%u2019 vote of funding. To Congress, these two future presidents later reported the reasons for the Muslims%u2019 hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.

    %u2026that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.

    Sound familiar?

    Thomas Jefferson and James Madison defeated the fascist nazi muslims 200 years ago
    And again 100 years ago with Theodore Roosevelt
    Tunisia in 1881 by France and Libya in 1911 by Italy. By then most of the Islamic world was under Christian domination. With the Ottoman Empire defeated in WW1, secularist Turkish rebels in 1923 overthrew the last Islamic Caliphate,
    http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?6bdec278-6a71-4436-bc4d-29d1c54b0ad7
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    by lars008-2009 July 5, 2007 9:54 AM EDT
    what do you call an organization that:

    kills you if you don't join it...

    http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=82201&ln=eng&txt=islam%20law%20kill%20kaafir

    kills you if you leave it...

    http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=696&ln=eng&txt=kaafir%20kill

    kills you if you don't do what they tell you to do..

    http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=6035&ln=eng&txt=kaafir%20kill

    kills you if you speak against it%u2026.

    http://islamqa.com/index.php?QR=22809&ln=eng

    kills anybody that is not a member of it...

    http://www.hauns.com/~DCQu4E5g/koran5.html

    still practices slavery

    http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=12562&ln=eng&txt=slavery

    still practices pagan rituals...

    http://answering-islam.org/Silas/pagansources.htm

    allows the r a p e of babies and animals...

    http://www.homa.org/default.asp?TOCID=2083225445

    a. satanic cult???
    b. islam???
    c. all the above???

    Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
    http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan
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    by lars008-2009 July 5, 2007 9:56 AM EDT
    NOW CAN WE KILL THEM???
    If they can kill us, we can kill them

    Qaeda warns of attacks 'worse than 9/11'
    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070530102648.wuwa6k96&show_article=1

    Hizbullah Deputy Sec-Gen Sheikh Naim Qassem: We Have Jurisprudent Permission to Carry Out 'Martyrdom' Operations, Fire Missiles on Israeli Civilians From Ayatollah Khomeini
    http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD154907

    Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp

    But then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden.

    "It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.

    Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.

    The fatwa justified killing non-Muslim civilians everywhere.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/04/60minutes/main2761108.shtml?source=RSSattr=60Minutes_2761108
    American Al Qaeda Member Threatens Attack
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/29/terror/main2865282.shtml
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    by bluestardad July 5, 2007 10:27 AM EDT
    WELL I GUESS WE SHOULD START BY REQUIREING METERS BEING INSTALLED ON ALL OIL PRODUCTION, TRANSPORTATION PIPELINES, AND LOADING TERMINALS! THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE SO NO ONE KNOWS HOW MUCH OIL IS BEING PROCESSED, STOLEN, OR SOLD ANYWHERE IN IRAQ!

    THIS HAS BEEN DONE BY DESIGN AND THERE IS A HUGE BLACK MARKET IN OIL!

    BESIDES THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT TO RECONSILE THEIR DIFFERENCES AS LONG AS AMERICA IS THERE TO COVER FOR THEM AND PROVIDE THEM TONS OF MONEY!
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    by radiob-2009 July 5, 2007 10:54 AM EDT
    Lars you are over your posting limit for the year.
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    by hungry1968 July 5, 2007 11:45 AM EDT
    "Despite heavy U.S. pressure, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has struggled for months to get members of his coalition together behind the bill..."

    "The demands of each side %u2014 Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish %u2014 are far apart, and often mutually exclusive."

    "Sunnis, centered in parts of the country with few proven reserves, fear Shiites and Kurds in the oil-rich south and north will monopolize profits from the industry %u2014 and want a stronger federal role to ensure a Sunni say in how the fields are run."

    "Parliament failed to start debate on the bill Wednesday, despite al-Maliki's announcement the day before that it would. The acting speaker, Khaled al-Attiya, said he expected it to be sent Thursday to the legislature, where it would be put to a committee."

    I guess we can install Democracy in another foreign country. Take the above passages and substitute the words Sunni, Shiite, and Kurd, for Democrat or Republican. And what is the result in the end? A dead end, stalled by partisan bickering - just like problems here in America that Americans want fixed.
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    by killtheliars July 5, 2007 11:51 AM EDT
    Gee, maybe thats becuase the Iraqis are aware of a few things most of us still don't want to believe about our governments. Thanks to this artilce it is becoming a little clearer.
    Oil a factor in Iraq conflict, says Australian defence minister
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,2119110,00.html
    Since invading a country to secure thier resources is illegal when do we start prosecuting?
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    by infidel_us July 5, 2007 12:07 PM EDT
    "Al-Zawahiri, the top deputy of Osama bin Laden, called on Muslims to follow a two-pronged strategy: work at home to topple "corrupt" Arab regimes and join al Qaeda's "jihad."

    And CBS is helping them giving them publicity and helping spread the word. Way to go - you bunch of losers!
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    by bluestardad July 5, 2007 12:09 PM EDT
    THIS VIDEO WAS MADE IN CRAWFORD TEXAS ON THE DICKTATERS PRIVATE ROVIAN FILM STUDIO!

    I WOULD NOT BELIEVE BUSH IF HE TOLD ME IT WAS DAYLIGHT OUTSIDE...

    WEAN YOURSELF FROM THE KOOL AID!
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    by rushman71 July 5, 2007 12:22 PM EDT
    bluestardad: If you look closely at the picture, the resemblance of al-Zawahiri kind of matches the features of Bush. Hey, maybe you are right!!! It is Bush!!! And I voted for that returd!!! LOL
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    by mbcsmith July 5, 2007 12:22 PM EDT
    WEAN YOURSELF FROM THE KOOL AID!
    Posted by bluestardad at 09:09 AM : Jul 05, 2007

    You are in denial.
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    by roger_inkart July 5, 2007 12:28 PM EDT
    what do you call an organization that:

    blah...blah..blah...

    Posted by lars008 at 06:54 AM : Jul 05, 2007

    It's extremists like yourself, Lars, that have helped them. Voting for GW Bush, supporting the invasion of Iraq, supporting the detainees in Gitmo ALL of this played right into these SOB's hands.

    You have the audacity to accuse others of being soft or coddling terrorist when the reality is al-Qaeda has had no better allies then the Bush administration and the fools and idiots that supported them.
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    by hungry1968 July 5, 2007 12:37 PM EDT
    "Al-Zawahiri, the top deputy of Osama bin Laden, called on Muslims to follow a two-pronged strategy: work at home to topple "corrupt" Arab regimes and join al Qaeda's "jihad."

    And CBS is helping them giving them publicity and helping spread the word. Way to go - you bunch of losers!
    Posted by infidel_us at 09:07 AM : Jul 05, 2007

    I double checked and re-read the article - this quote didn't come from the article on this page. That's very "Bushie" of you to try and pull a trick like that. Unfortunately for you, most of us are a lot smarter than you.
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    by peacethinker-2009 July 5, 2007 12:44 PM EDT
    Why can't the mighty U.S. military and CIA find these guys, him and OBL. Come on, this has been going on for years, the taxpayers have spent billions, look harder, find 'em already.
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    by condumism July 5, 2007 12:52 PM EDT
    When a government recklessly expends the lives of its young for crass motives of profit and power, while claiming that its motives are pure and moral, it is violating its promise to the country. War is almost always a breaking of that promise. It does not enable the pursuit of happiness but brings despair and grief. The USA's Southern Fascists, all members of the Repuglicon Party, should all be hung in public for their eternal acts of treason against America.
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    by mbcsmith July 5, 2007 12:54 PM EDT
    The enemy himself is telling you that Iraq is a central front in this war. The bleeding heart LIBS JUST DON"T GET IT!
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    by rushman71 July 5, 2007 12:55 PM EDT
    You have the audacity to accuse others of being soft or coddling terrorist when the reality is al-Qaeda has had no better allies then the Bush administration and the fools and idiots that supported them.
    Posted by roger_inkart

    You must be one of those liberal pigs that has nothing better to do but to accuse Bush for anything and everything!!! Wake Up!!! Bush has been trying very hard to bring down Al Qaeda and to help bring democracy to a country that is so used to dictatorship. And it's pigs like you that regard Bush as a dictator himself!!! What the he11 is wrong with people like you!!! You sure don't sound American to me!!!
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    by hungry1968 July 5, 2007 12:58 PM EDT
    Why can't the mighty U.S. military and CIA find these guys, him and OBL. Come on, this has been going on for years, the taxpayers have spent billions, look harder, find 'em already.
    Posted by peacethinker at 09:44 AM : Jul 05, 2007

    Chris Rock once said, "They could cure cancer but they won't. There's no money in the cure, but there sure is a whole lot of money in the medicine."

    I'm afraid the same mentality is played out here. There's no money for Haliburton in catching these guys, but there sure is a lot of money to be made with a fabricated war in Iraq.
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    by pwrslm July 5, 2007 1:03 PM EDT
    And CBS is helping them giving them publicity and helping spread the word. Way to go - you bunch of losers!
    Posted by infidel_us

    I double checked and re-read the article - this quote didn't come from the article on this page. That's very "Bushie" of you to try and pull a trick like that. Unfortunately for you, most of us are a lot smarter than you.
    Posted by hungry1968

    You gotta mouse in your pocket? Not to many folks are gonna agree that you are so smart, seeing how the article really does report the context of the "quote" you refer too. Do you have any common sense? Dont look like it from that post.....
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    by peacethinker-2009 July 5, 2007 1:04 PM EDT
    hungry1968

    Wow, I'm pretty cynical about much the military, government, business does, I hope the powers that be are not milking this for money, that would be massively immoral and unethical, oh wait, yeah, you're probably right. My liberal hopeful ideals got me again.
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    by pwrslm July 5, 2007 1:06 PM EDT
    Osama is dead.

    Havent seen hide nor hair of him in 2 years.
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    by peacethinker-2009 July 5, 2007 1:08 PM EDT
    If OBL is dead, sure wish we could prove it somehow, but still why can't we find #2?
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    by condumism July 5, 2007 1:08 PM EDT
    Fascist rushman71 blurted:

    You must be one of those liberal pigs that has nothing better to do but to accuse Bush for anything and everything!!!

    Corporate America, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fascist GOPigs, has you spoofed. But as any GOPig parasite and brainwashed America hater as yourself, no surprise here.
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    by bluestardad July 5, 2007 1:11 PM EDT
    STRAIGHT FROM THE W PRODUCTION STUDIOS....

    THE NUMBER TWO OF IRAQ...NUMBER ONE IS DRINKING TEA IN A COFFEE HOUSE IN SAUDI ARABIA AS HIS FAMILY IS BUSH FAMILY FRIENDS!

    THIS VIDEO WAS MADE IN CRAWFORD TEXAS ON THE DICKTATERS PRIVATE ROVIAN FILM STUDIO!

    I WOULD NOT BELIEVE BUSH IF HE TOLD ME IT WAS DAYLIGHT OUTSIDE...

    WEAN YOURSELF FROM THE KOOL AID!
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    by navyretired2 July 5, 2007 1:13 PM EDT
    ""Al-Zawahiri, the top deputy of Osama bin Laden, called on Muslims to follow a two-pronged strategy: work at home to topple "corrupt" Arab regimes and join al Qaeda's "jihad."

    And CBS is helping them giving them publicity and helping spread the word. Way to go - you bunch of losers!
    Posted by infidel_us at 09:07 AM : Jul 05, 2007

    I double checked and re-read the article - this quote didn't come from the article on this page. That's very "Bushie" of you to try and pull a trick like that. Unfortunately for you, most of us are a lot smarter than you.
    Posted by hungry1968 at 09:37 AM : Jul 05, 2007"

    Hahahaha!!!

    You may wanna re-re-read it, without the dem-blinders this time.
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    by hungry1968 July 5, 2007 1:17 PM EDT
    The enemy himself is telling you that Iraq is a central front in this war. The bleeding heart LIBS JUST DON"T GET IT!
    Posted by mbcsmith at 09:54 AM : Jul 05, 2007

    The neo-cons just don't get it. Iraq had nothing to do with the war on terror until Bush liberated the insurgents and terrorists from Saddam Hussein's rule. In fact, there was no evidence of any al-Qaeda activity in Iraq until Bush made it safe for them.
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    by razmaz125 July 5, 2007 1:20 PM EDT
    I hope people listen to every word Al-Zawahiri uses. He confirms exactly what people like myself, Lars and other 'neocons' here have been saying all along-this is a war between the West and Islam. One could split hairs and say the 'moderate muslims' are threatened also-but they're just as great a threat to us 'infidels' as the 'radicals' are.

    Clearly Al Qaeda is very intelligent, calculating and they know what's at stake here. I'm sure most western leaders hit the snooze button when Al Qaeda speaks, but they should pay very close attention-there's a wealth of information here.

    And contrary to the dingbats here claiming this is all about the control of oil, al qaeda clearly has proven those idiots wrong. This is about Islamic or Western domination around the world and they are much more aware and organized than most of us in the West are-just that they're far weaker than us so their progress has been limited.
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    by notblue July 5, 2007 1:21 PM EDT
    I think Al Zawahri is Bluestardad, same rants, same ideology. Although he could be any one of a number of people who frequent these sights.
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    by prinzowhales July 5, 2007 1:25 PM EDT
    And, just where is al-Zawahiri giving his little harangue? Surely there were contractors who put the backdrop together...it is unique and should be readily recognized. It is obviously a place to be publicly frequented...What are those plaques on the wall?--Awards from the Ali Baba Terrorist Film Festival?

    I half expected Dr. Evil to walk onto the set to have a word with everyone. Notice the New World Order colours, blue and orange... where is the good old Islamic Green? And, is that a reflection on the plaque?
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    by peacethinker-2009 July 5, 2007 1:28 PM EDT
    I'm a liberal humanist that loves America, I sure hope those repressive muslims don't screw the world up any worse than it already is. Come on, for one, they don't like mini-skirts or bikinis, wet t-shirts, that alone is enough to drive a man nuts. They seem so hateful and backwards, if they had their way it'd almost be like going back to the stone age, boring! Just my opinion, no need to flame me up.
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    by hungry1968 July 5, 2007 1:32 PM EDT
    Posted by razmaz125 at 10:20 AM : Jul 05, 2007

    I agree with what you're saying, but you're missing the point from "the left". The war on terror was launched against America by the Taliban and al-Qaeda from Afghanistan. That is where they were and still are, and that should have been our focus. When Bush decided to give up on the war on terror, to focus on the personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein, he basically gave the terrorists a free pass. If we had concentrated 140,000 troops in Afghanistan looking for the actual terrorists, and / or confiscating all the weapons we found, there's no doubt that Afghanistan would have been purged of the terrorists. At the very least, we could have taken most of their weapons away from them.
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    by middleman8 July 5, 2007 1:32 PM EDT
    razmas
    Who started this conflict? bush and backers like you. If this is so important to yourself and the evil one why aren't you in Iraq. You could go as a civillian and employee and take the evil ones daughters with you. HUUMMM not going huh? thought so your kind can only hide in the background and sic others on. why don't you get a life and find out WHOSE TROOPS ARE IN WHOSE COUNTRY? Either put your own life on the block or shut up...
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    by hungry1968 July 5, 2007 1:35 PM EDT
    lars must be sleeping late
    ....or
    the muslims must have finally got him.
    Posted by ainttaken at 10:25 AM : Jul 05, 2007



    I hope it's the latter...
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    by infidel_us July 5, 2007 1:39 PM EDT
    You may wanna re-re-read it, without the dem-blinders this time.
    Posted by NavyRetired2 at 10:13 AM : Jul 05, 2007

    You're asking WAY too much. Just thank God they make up an extremely small percentage of the American voting population.
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    by pwrslm July 5, 2007 1:39 PM EDT
    razmas
    Who started this conflict? bush and backers like you
    Posted by middleman8 at

    WOW

    You make some really broad conclusions on this conflict. Last I checked, between the two actual conflicts, Saddam invaded kuwait, and violated his cease fire agreement for the first conflict, and al Queda pulled off several attacks, culminating in the 9-11 attack, for the second conflict.

    Sure is good to be able to verify that the loose cannons are only half cocked to start with.
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    by hungry1968 July 5, 2007 1:39 PM EDT
    So All they want out of life is to kill us.... Hummm... I say get them before they get us.. What do you liberals say to that? Let me guess... leave them alone and they'll go away...
    Posted by guyfrompa45 at 10:33 AM : Jul 05, 2007


    No - that's not what the "left" is saying at all. Read my post from 10:32. We all want the terrorists killed / out of business, but creating a war in Iraq is NOT the way to hunt down and kill someone that lives and thrives in Afghanistan. The 140,000 troops and the "surge" should have been sent to look for the terrorists that hit THIS country - not the ones that regularly attacked Israel.
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    by prinzowhales July 5, 2007 1:40 PM EDT
    The art of guerilla warfare is not to have stand up battles with superior forces, but to hit the enemy where he is weakest and to inflict maximum damage. The target selection in the UK and the competence of the alleged 'al Qaeda' don't reflect that goal. The target selection served only to strengthen the London regime's support among the population.

    There are numerous targets that would damage the war-making capacity of the opposing forces-- the nightclub district of London and the Glasgow terminal were not among them. Just as the Berlin Disco bombing only served to justify an attack on Libya--the evidence of Libyan involvment coming from an NSA intercept which was helpfully broadcast by an Israeli team in Libya posing as the terrorists Libyan handlers-- this silly attack merely provides justification for the Stupid People's War, its continuation and expansion.
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