November 10, 2008
Allah's Warriors Using 13 Year Old Girl for Suicide Bombing, Murdering Dozens of Civilians; NY Times Frets that U.S. Might be SECRETLY Hunting al Qaeda
Is it possible that the recent uptick in violence in Iraq is related to the election of Barack Obama? Possibly. Remember, insurgencies are fueled by hope-and-change. Seriously, insurgents fight because they a) have some sort of political change in mind -- in this case Islamism, or the institution of traditional Islamic law; and b) have hope that the insurgency has a reasonable probability that it will bring about that change.
Even with the promise of 72 virgins it becomes increasingly hard to recruit people willing to give up their lives if they believe the cause is a losing one. This is why AQI propaganda has always stressed that they were winning the fight and the U.S. was losing.
The spokesman for al Qaeda in Iraq has recently claimed that the election of Barack Obama was a signal by the American people that they are tired of fighting in Iraq. Sure they're wrong, the election of Obama seems clearly tied to the U.S. economy, but this is what at least some AQ supporters believe. To the extent that they believe it, it is their reality.
The best thing Barack Obama can do right now to safeguard the hard fought victories in Iraq is to publicly and clearly state that the U.S. is in Iraq to win and will not abandon our allies.
A 13-year-old girl became Iraq's latest suicide bomber today, killing four people at a security checkpoint in the town of Baquba...And in Baghdad 31 were killedand 71 injured in a car bombing.n the Baquba attack, the girl blew herself up at a checkpoint manned by members of the Sunni Muslim 'Awakening' councils, which have led the fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq. Four men, including a leading Sunni militiaman, were killed and 15 civilians wounded.
And in the midsts of renewed al Qaeda efforts to murder civilians and rekindle Iraq's civil war, the New York Times is busy revealing national secrets once again over "concerns" that the Bush Administration went too far by -- ***SHOCK*** --- secretly allowing U.S. troops to kill al Qaeda operatives in countries like Pakistan, Somalia, and Syria.
Never let a Pulitzer stand in the way of national security.
