I saw this video on Live Leak this morning and was saving it for tonight.
Much to my chagrin, Rusty at Jawa beat me to it so a hat tip to him, alright.
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Video: Iraqi Insurgents -- Greatest Hits
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Video: Apache Engages Insurgent Safe House By 30mm Cannon And Missiles - Iraq
A commenter at Live Leak says
I can watch these all day long!
Me, too. But this runs 7:28 so you'd have to watch it 193 times for it to take up a full day.
Enjoy
Monday, February 18, 2008
Video: Apache Engage Insurgents By 30mm At Night - Iraq
A commenter at Live Leak says this about this video.
enemy destroyed! All remaining terrorists should
watch this vid and prepare their last will and
testament.
And you should prepare some popcorn, as this video of five insurgents caught at the old fishing hole runs 9:42, but it's worth watching.
LA Times surrenders, Reuters is holding out
The LA Times has surrendered in portraying Iraq as a lost cause.
It has taken nine bloody and difficult months, but the deployment of 30,000 additional U.S. troops appears at last to have brought not just a lull in the sectarian fighting in Iraq, but the first tangible steps toward genuine political reconciliation.
Los Angeles Times - 2-18-08
Meanwhile, Reuters is still holding out hope for failure.
The U.S. military and Iraqi officials have hailed vastly better security in Baghdad, western Anbar province and areas south of the capital, which has allowed people to venture out at night to shop at markets and eat at restaurants.
But in the cities of Samarra, Baquba and Mosul, the militants still sow fear.
Yes, as Reuters argues, there are still going to be more battles in Iraq. But here are the facts from a source not known as being right wing about the success in Baghdad.
Here is the latest (January 17) map of trends in ethno-sectarian violence in Baghdad, from the Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I). The green areas are predominantly Shiite, the blue are mostly or predominantly Sunni, and the brown areas are closely mixed. The yellow-orange-red inflammation indicates “incidents where deaths occurred from any means that were clearly ethno-sectarian in motivation, to include car bombs.” The methodology for determining what constitutes ethno-sectarian violence is explained here.
Video: Extreme Makeover: Iraqi Insurgent Home Edition
A moonbat in the LiveLeak comments says this about this video:
This is of course illegal under the Geneva Conventions. You are not allowed to destroy the residences of any civilians regardless of who they are or who you suspect them to be.
I say, I don't know. I'm not a lawyer and the moonbat commenter probably isn't either. But I do know that enjoying this video is not illegal under the Geneva convention, so sit back and watch some insurgent's crib get blasted.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Video: Military robot blown up by an IED in Iraq
The suspense will kill you and the soldiers will make you laugh. Two minutes of entertainment.
Video: UAV Predator Airstrike On 6 Insurgents - Iraq
Posted nine days ago
Salon magazine has an interesting story inside UAV headquarters called "Killing Bubba from the skies."
(Hat tip: Bobibutu at LGF)
Friday, February 15, 2008
Did Hamas kill Mughniyeh?
There's been much speculation about the Mossad being involved in the assassination of terrorist mastermind Imad Mughniyeh based largely on how the car bomb attack is similar to previous Mossad operations.
Now there are a couple of holes in that theory.
On Friday what surfaced are reports that Palestinians are being held in connection with the police investigation into the targeted hit and that the car bomb was not similar to previous Mossad operations where a magnet is placed underneath a vehicle.
The source said the investigation by Syria, Iran and Hezbollah showed that Mughniyah was killed by a car bomb parked close to his car. It was detonated remotely as he walked past after leaving a building he had been visiting.
Early reports said the bomb had been placed inside Mughniyah's car.
The suspects arrested in connection to the killing have been mostly Palestinians residing in Syria, the Lebanese source said.
So why would Hamas want Mughniyeh dead?
At the American Thinker, Rick Moran puts forward some theories:
The prime suspect is still Israel's Mossaad whose expertise is unquestioned. But the fact that a car bomb was used to kill Mughniyeh may indicate other hands involved, including the Palestinians who have no great love for Hezb'allah and who have been hired out by the Syrians to detonate car bombs in Lebanon to kill anti-Syrian Lebanese in the past.
This time, they may have been operating for themselves - or still other unknown actors including a Hezb'allah faction who wanted to get rid of Mughniyeh for their own reasons.
Also read about Mughniyeh's connection to Iraqi insurgents.
Al Qaeda in Iraq reorganizes, U.S. media ignores surge
MEMRI reports that 500 Al-Qaeda gunmen were now returning to Diyala province and AFP reports Friday saw a twin suicide bombing.
MOSUL, Iraq - A double attack on Friday by two suicide bombers outside a crowded Shia mosque in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar killed at least four people and wounded 17, police said.
Tal Afar police chief Brigadier General Ibrahim Al Juburi said security forces shot both bombers but that the men still managed to detonate their suicide vests.
The attacks came during Friday prayers when the Shaikh Jawad Al Sadiq mosque was crowded with worshippers.
Tal Afar is near the Syrian border in the northern province of Nineveh, one of the provinces where Iraqi and US commanders says Al Qaeda in Iraq has regrouped after being chased out of Baghdad and surrounding belts.
Reuters notes.
Attacks are down nationwide by 60 percent since June, thanks to a surge of 30,000 extra U.S. troops, a decision by Sunni tribal sheikhs to turn against al Qaeda, and a ceasefire by Moqtada al-Sadr's Shi'ite militia.
But the country's north remains a massive security headache and stronghold of al Qaeda, who regrouped there after being ousted from strongholds in western Anbar province and from around Baghdad last year.
Meanwhile, NewsBusters has the latest on the lack of U.S. media interest in the first anniverary of the surge.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
U.S. military: Al Qaeda in Iraq seeks female patients as bombers
CNN has more information on the investigation into the suicide bombing attack in Baghdad involving two women who had Down syndrome. The military believes there is a mole on staff at two psychiatric hospitals working for Al-Qaeda.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Al Qaeda in Iraq is recruiting female patients at Baghdad's two psychiatric hospitals for suicide missions -- with the help of hospital staff -- according to the U.S. military.
The U.S. military believes al Qaeda in Iraq has operatives within the hospitals' staffs who are passing on patients' files and contact information to the militant group, a senior U.S. military official said, requesting anonymity.
The apparent recruiting effort came to light this month when Iraqi officials said that two female bombers in deadly pet market attacks in Baghdad that left nearly 100 dead were mentally challenged.
One of the female bombers had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and depression at Baghdad's Ibn Rushd psychiatric hospital, where she received electric shock treatments, the hospital's director said in an exclusive interview.
As part of the investigation into the February 1 attack, U.S. and Iraqi forces detained the acting director of Baghdad's main psychiatric facility, Rashad Hospital, on Sunday.
He faces questions about whether he provided patient files and contact information to al Qaeda in Iraq, a U.S. military spokesman, Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, said Wednesday.
The U.S. military is looking into whether there is a direct link between the two hospitals, which are treating an overabundance of Iraqis suffering from psychiatric disorders brought on by the war.
A U.S. military official said information from a source led them to Rashad Hospital's acting director. The U.S. military also said it believes that al Qaeda in Iraq is trying to use other women released from Rashad Hospital to carry out future suicide bombings.
The detained hospital chief took over the position after Rashad's director was fatally gunned down in December reportedly for refusing to cooperate with al Qaeda in Iraq.
Al Qaeda in Iraq urges attacks on Israel
From MERMI
In an audiocassette posted February 14 on Islamist websites, Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi, Emir of the Islamic State of Iraq, which is affiliated with Al-Qaeda, offers his views on "winning the struggle against the Jews."
In the cassette, Al-Baghdadi said, "Israel is a malignant germ in the body of the [Islamic] ummah that must be removed," and added that the obligation to liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque applied to all Muslims.
Al-Baghdadi accused Hamas of treason for entering the political process, and said that it had abandoned jihad fighters worldwide. He called on the Palestinians to adopt the path of jihad without distinguishing between Jews and infidels, and Palestinians who betray Islam; to establish a Salafi organization "that will educate the Children of the Stones for the supreme goals of jihad"; and to destroy the Shi'a that had begun to spread in Palestine in the guise of "resistance."
Al-Baghdadi further called on all Muslims to open new jihad fronts in order to ease the Jewish and U.S. pressure on the Palestinians and to strengthen the existing jihad fronts, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He also offered help to the Palestinians in the form of funds and training, including in preparing bombs and manufacturing rockets.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Video: Al Qaeda in Iraq burns prisoners alive
And you thought water boarding was bad.
WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC
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Hat Tip MEMRI
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