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Posted by Don (Guest) - Tuesday, April 11 2006, 5:51:55 (CEST) from 68.116.91.185 - 68-116-91-185.dhcp.trlk.ca.charter.com Commercial - Windows XP - Internet Explorer Website: Website title:

I've been sifting through news articles for a long time now. I don't know if anyone else notices this as well...but do any of you notice a large picture being formed when reading all these articles and piecing things together? I mean...one does not even need to be psychic. One simply needs to read enough to know what conspiracies they are setting up. The "they" in this case is that oligarchy that rules the world. And in the midst of all these articles, one will notice these BS comments thrown in here and there that take cheap shots at...in this case, the people of the country called Iraq. Take this article, for example: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060409/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_guerrilla_ingenuity --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ramadi Insurgents Develop Clever Tactics By TODD PITMAN, Associated Press Writer Sun Apr 9, 4:34 PM ET RAMADI, Iraq - On an eerie, battle-scarred street in this blown-out urban war zone, a mannequin with painted black hair stares silently at U.S. Marines hunkered down in sandbagged observation posts atop buildings a few blocks away. It's the latest insurgent ruse in an evolving war pitting the world's most powerful military against guerrilla fighters using their most effective weapon: ingenuity. Insurgents in Ramadi recently have flown kites over U.S. troops to align mortar-fire, released pigeons to give away U.S. troop movements and staged attacks at fake funeral processions complete with rocket-stuffed coffins, U.S. forces deployed here say. "They're crafty, I'll give 'em that," said Marine Cpl. John Strobridge, 20, of Orlando, Fla., as his Humvee passed the mannequin along one of the most bomb-infested roads in town, a street Americans call Route Michigan. "Gun it! Gun it!" he screamed to his driver as the vehicle crossed a frequently targeted intersection. The mannequin first popped up a few weeks ago in the courtyard of a secondary school near a collapsed building. The simple figure appears to be made of wood, with a white shirt and blue plants painted on. Two white arms hang down, carrying a briefcase. "We kind of laugh at it. We don't know why they do it," Strobridge said. "But I think the idea is, we get used to looking at the mannequin, and then one day there's a real person standing there" — with an AK-47 or a rocket launcher. Marines said there's no point stopping to take it down. The road is too dangerous, and such bizarre sites often are booby-trapped. At the bottom of a light pole beside another mannequin elsewhere in the city, the sleeve of an American MRE military ration package was found concealing a bomb. A Marine intelligence officer, who declined to be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the media, said insurgents had placed other booby-trapped mannequins on roadsides, hoping U.S. forces would believe they were corpses and stop to check on them. He said they had used the same trick with real corpses. In recent weeks, Marines found a human leg in the road with a pressure-switch bomb set to go off when it was picked up. "The enemy will always try different things to try get us to bite on. They're very smart," Capt. Andrew Del Gaudio, 30, commander of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, said during an interview at Government Center, a sandbagged fortress topped with camouflage netting that serves as headquarters to the provincial government. "They sit there and watch us, observe us for weeks at a time, see how we operate and how we react to things," said Del Gaudio, of Mt. Laurel, N.J. "Then they try to place obstacles in our path." The U.S. military conducts a huge array of counterinsurgency tactics, both offensive and defensive, but most of them are classified. Marines stationed at Government Center, which came under a two-hour sustained attack Saturday by dozens of gunmen, say insurgents regularly creep through the abandoned, shot-up buildings surrounding it, storing ammunition in empty houses and firing rockets, mortars and automatic weapons. Sometimes insurgents will shine flashlights at U.S. guard posts, trying to blind Marines' night-vision goggles. Guerrillas have been seen crawling slowly on their bellies, trying to lay bombs. One was spotted trying to move unseen beside a cow by a device that produces an image from body heat. Insurgent snipers — hiding in tall buildings — are a constant threat. One was spotted — and subsequently fired upon — observing a U.S. position with binoculars through a hole left in a wall where a single brick had been removed from under a window. The most dangerous threat, however, remains roadside bombs — hidden in trash, potholes, piles of dirt or dead animal carcasses. U.S. forces regularly sweep the roads for bombs, and insurgents sometimes try to remove them, then replace them. Another tactic: dropping a harmless piece of trash by the roadside one day, planting explosives in it the next, then arming it later and triggering it from blocks away with a cordless telephone. Marine and Army officials said guerrilla fighters also fly kites that signal to other fighters where U.S. soldiers are, to help them direct their fire, and Del Gaudio said insurgents have released flocks of pigeons into the air as an American or Iraqi patrol goes by so that other fighters know where U.S. forces are. Carlos Goetz, 29, of Miami, said insurgents also have used mosque loudspeakers to signal impending attacks. "They'll call for blood drives in the hospital or say there's gonna be a funeral procession, and seven out of 10 times that's code for an attack," Goetz said. That apparently bore true one day last week, when an assault on Government Center — two mortars, two RPG rounds and some small arms fire — was preceded by a funeral announcement broadcast from minarets. Goetz said insurgents in Ramadi have held full-blown funeral processions carrying a coffin through the streets. They set the coffin down behind a wall, whipped out assault rifles and rocket-launchers and began attacking U.S. positions, Goetz said. "Firepower-wise they're no match for us, but that's the nature and beauty of an insurgency — they capitalize on their strengths to hit our weaknesses," Del Gaudio said. Insurgents in Ramadi have destroyed the city's cell phone towers and land lines, cutting off a key avenue for locals to tip off U.S. and Iraqi forces of guerrilla activities. People sympathetic to U.S. or Iraqi troops are especially targeted by insurgents, who have issued warnings with black spray paint on villa walls calling for collaborators to be killed. Del Gaudio said this week he'd come under fire by a dozen insurgents who were holding children and firing at U.S. forces — knowing Marines would not return fire. Goetz said a 12- or 13-year-old had been spotted Saturday planting a roadside bomb. "They fight us hard, they are a determined enemy," Del Gaudio said. "But there is no morality there. They hide among the population, among families, women and children. That's how they fight. That's how they do what they do." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060409/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_guerrilla_ingenuity --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Again: "'They're very smart,' Capt. Andrew Del Gaudio...said during an interview." ---No duh they're smart! You just figured it out now? You're dealing with the smartest civilization ever. But no...you think b/c of their religion(s) and desertification that Iraq is a big sandbox with a bunch of illiterate, ignorant people living in it. Think again. "Marine and Army officials said guerrilla fighters also fly kites that signal to other fighters where U.S. soldiers are, to help them direct their fire, and Del Gaudio said insurgents have released flocks of pigeons into the air as an American or Iraqi patrol goes by so that other fighters know where U.S. forces are." ---No need to say anything more on this. These people are not stupid. "'They fight us hard, they are a determined enemy,' Del Gaudio said. 'But there is no morality there. They hide among the population, among families, women and children. That's how they fight. That's how they do what they do.'" [b]---No, but there is morality in your people raping our women, killing our men, women, and children, and blaming this on the people themselves, right? Your tactics are no more moral than their tactics are. This is how they protect themselves from your "democracy." This is how they protect themselves from that trash you people will bring in should Iraq become a "democratic" country. We will see the "insurgency" die down but a new insurgency will begin...one of drugs, alcohol, prostitution...one of fattening, starch- and salt-filled western foods that make people lazy and tired...one of debt...one of MTVs and other disgusting things that make our women result to disgraceful acts and turn them into "jwale"...one that turns our new generation into drug/alcohol addicts because they want to escape the sorrows that they have been experiencing...one that tears aparts homes...one that simply destroys. Assyria/Ashur...or that now-sandbox you assholes decided to redraw borders on and call Iraq in 1926, had been a "democracy" (among other things) far before you western idiots ever knew how to stop swinging from trees and living in caves. But its democracy was its own democracy...not that stuff you people want to impose on them. It was fertile and it was alive with ideas and creations...still is. But the desertification that has occurred in the Middle East and Africa is quite an ironic analogy. The slow loss of green over the many centuries was analogous to its loss of power and sovereignty that it would experience later. Similarly, the increase in rapidly fluctuating weather patterns in the West are analogous to the chaos that it would experience as a result of trying to control the world. Call it karma or God's will or simple poetic justice...the fact of the matter is that actions won't go unpunished or unchecked forever. KHAYA ASHUR / ZEND'E BAAD ASHUR / YAHYA ASHUR --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

The full topic: Another One In The News... Don - Tuesday, April 11 2006, 5:51:55 (CEST) Re: Another One In The News... dr pancho - 04/11 17:30

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