Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Suicide Bombers Flocking to Iraq
It's only Fox news, but here's a report difficult to fit into Democrat talking points that we're creating jihadist by fighting them in Iraq. I personally think we're killing the so called insurgents faster than they can be replaced by volunteers and here is some support for that belief. Money quotes:
A suicide bomber captured before he could blow himself up in a Shiite mosque claimed he was kidnapped, beaten and drugged by insurgents who forced him to take on the mission. The U.S. military said its medical tests indicated the man was telling the truth...
Televised interrogations and confessions are becoming increasingly common as Iraqi and American officials capture more militants and use their confessions in an attempt to undercut support for militants...
The kidnapping "demonstrates the desperation of Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his ability to execute his strategy," said [Col.] Buckner [U. S. spokesman] . "He knows that he can't win against Iraqi security and coalition forces, and is therefore willing to use innocent Iraqi citizens to further his cause to disrupt the election process and prevent a free and democratic Iraq," he said.
To paraphrase Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall) in Apocalypse Now, "I love the smell of desperation in the morning. It smells like...victory."
A suicide bomber captured before he could blow himself up in a Shiite mosque claimed he was kidnapped, beaten and drugged by insurgents who forced him to take on the mission. The U.S. military said its medical tests indicated the man was telling the truth...
Televised interrogations and confessions are becoming increasingly common as Iraqi and American officials capture more militants and use their confessions in an attempt to undercut support for militants...
The kidnapping "demonstrates the desperation of Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his ability to execute his strategy," said [Col.] Buckner [U. S. spokesman] . "He knows that he can't win against Iraqi security and coalition forces, and is therefore willing to use innocent Iraqi citizens to further his cause to disrupt the election process and prevent a free and democratic Iraq," he said.
To paraphrase Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall) in Apocalypse Now, "I love the smell of desperation in the morning. It smells like...victory."
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 5:50 PM 
