Now let’s meet the Iraqi Islamic Resistance.
Who are the League of the Righteous? They are the group responsible for capturing British computer expert Peter Moore and releasing him unharmed this past December after 31 months in captivity. However, don’t shake their hands just yet. The League also captured and killed his four British bodyguards. And they did so cunningly, for a purpose. The League’s leader, Laith al-Khazaali, was, coincidentally, freed from an American prison last June — “around the same time the bodies of two of Moore’s bodyguards were handed over to Britain. Around 200 other detainees were freed in September, when a third bodyguard’s body was transferred. Negotiations over the British hostages were handled by Khazaali’s brother, Sheikh Qais al-Khazaali, who was released on January 5, 2010.”
Obviously, this League has learned from the Palestinians, for this is how they negotiate with the Israelis. Hamas or Fatah or the Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade would kidnap one Israeli and demand that hundreds, even thousands, of Palestinian prisoners “with blood on their hands” be released. They usually return dead Israeli bodies. Hopefully, this is not what is now going on in the matter of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
I support our troops. I admire their heroism and willingness to serve in dangerous wars so that I can remain safely behind enemy lines. I also support the bold and creative decision to embed social scientists and native language speakers in their ranks. But, such personnel have to be carefully chosen and carefully trained. That may not be the case. Neither a lax nor a politically correct military-corporate culture can best serve the American people.
Has the League of the Righteous ever freed an American prisoner? If they have, they are different from the Palestinians. Israel has indeed offered to trade hundreds of prisoners with blood on their hands for Shalit. Hamas has said no, at least so far, and it seems that nothing will ever make them say yes. As I always say about Islamists, they are incorruptible. How could they ever let a human being go free? No matter how much they are offered, they will do what they think is right–fighting Israel with no goal and no purpose.
The most dangerous form of hatred is unmotivated hatred.
please do not forgert Steven Vincent, kidnapped and murdered in Basra in 2005
God rest the souls of the Jews Berg and Pearl and Irish Catholic Margaret Fitzsimons Hassan… In the Balkan wars of 1992– the number of Serb soldiers ritualistically beheaded (using a sawing technique) by Mujahedin in Bosnia amounts to 87 (eighty-seven). This number was ascertained by Dr Milan Bulajic (Belgrade), who was chronicler of the WW II Croatian genocide of Jews, Romas, and Serbs in Jasenovac, Europe’s cruelest death camp. Actually a complex of camps, it was built to a German plan. Croatian cruelty was so savage that even the German SS at times intervened to restrain their allies. Dr Bulajic was investigating the genocide of Serbs in the 1991-1999 war by old Nazi allies Croatia, Kosovo Albanians, and Muslim Bosnians. I was recently informed of his death by Dr Sasa (Sasha) Acic (phonetically Ah-chich, ca.), who is Roma (Gypsy): “The International Commission for the truth on Jasenovac with deep regret anounces the loss of its member Dr.Milan Bulajic who passeed away on the 29th November 2009 aged 81. Dr.Milan Bulajic was the first coordinator of the International Commission and also the author of 67 books on war crimes, genocide against Serbs, Jews and Roma and Croatian atrocities during WWII.– Respectfully, Sasa Acic, Commission Coordinator.” The number, to repeat, of decapitated Serb prisoners of war defending their own lands from Islam is 87. Anyone wishing to know their names can indicate so on this blog. I’ll supply the names from Dr Bulajic’s research. The numbers from German/Vaticn backed Croatia 1991-1995 and “independent” Kosovo are another category.
What, exactly, is an “Iraqi-American Human Terrain Team (HTT) member”?
3. john peter maher:
Wow, John, thanks for your clarity.
I have often ranted here about the injustice committed to the Serbs by the little, and dirty, Clinton war and the slanted media. I had also used the example of beheadings in Serbia by the Islamists, to qualify the Serbs’ actions and reactions, and at least twice referred to the Jasenovac camp in Croatia, as you mentioned, the cruelest in Europe during World War II.
Moreover, here, often people are ready to chide the Europeans at that time for cowardice and not helping the “right cause”, the US/Clinton war, for…who can argue against “etchnic cleansing”, right, a pet phrase of the left, including the so-called feminists? Besides the charge of cowardice (which the Germans deserve now in Afghanistan, by the way), the West Europeans at that time either knew the US was on the wrong side, or simply sympathized with Croatia (Catholic Croatia).
So, again, the Croatians, owe the Serbs big time (and then the Jews and the Roma and Sinti). As well, the low-class, cowards, Bosnian Muslims. Kosovo, where the Battle of Kosovo was fought, is central to Serbian identity and nationality.
As per Mr. Clinton, no comments.
Phyllis
It is a depressing phenomenon you describe but one we dismiss or trivialize at our peril. Our enemies–for what else are they?–are more than merely perfidious, engaging in deceit, trickery, duplicity, and a myriad of other ruses and lies.
One of the reasons they can get away with it so easily, as the confusion and fawning dhimmitude of the mainstream media makes evident, is that our intellectual classes have been trained in the post-modernism that does not believe in a master narrative (hence there is no history), cannot see truth for the positionality of the trees (there is no mechanism for making rational decisions), and stumbles over ambiguity and allusion (there is no rigour, discipline or reward for persistence).
So what can we do but regain control over our educational institututions, as well as our newspapers, television services, film industry and daily lives, and begin to teach, learn, and engage in critical thinking, the arts of interpretation, the skills of disambiguation. It won’t be easy. It won’t happen soon. But do we have a choice?
Norman
Human Terrain Team–what the heck does that military-generic sounding title mean?
To 4. Larsen E Whipsnade
A new fancy way of saying diplomats who really do something such as fixing leaky sinks…
They go out and point out things that are simple common sense issues to most ppl and then try to help the locals fix them.
Such as they goto a town and see their flesh water combines with their sewer tanks… they point out this is bad then help the locals fix it(normally trying to teach them its ok for them to fix it themselves).
They have hundreds of these groups under hundreds of different names assigned to all kinds of stuff so their no way to be sure exactly what he was doing but in simplest term he worked with the locals to do something.
Foolish man but very brave. I would kill myself before I let those apes take me.
I went online to find out exactly what the team is and what it is about.
Here is the link:
http://www.army.mil/professionalwriting/volumes/volume4/december_2006/12_06_2.html
To say this is another “feel good” attempt by the military is an understatement. I got that in the first page when I had to wade through all the Master Degree/PHD words and corporate buzz words and phrases. For example:
“To augment the brigade commander’s direct support, HTS will have reachback connectivity to a network of subject-matter experts now being assembled from throughout the department of defense, the interagency domain, and academia. This network will be managed by a centralized information-clearinghouse unit nested in FMSO. At the same time, to overcome the kinds of problems now typically encountered when in-place units attempt to transfer knowledge about their area of operations upon relief in place, HTS will provide for the complete transfer of HTT personnel together with the HTT database to the incoming commander upon transfer of authority. This will give the incoming commander and unit immediate “institutional memory” about the people and culture of its area of operations.”
You have got to be kidding me. Somebody’s brainstorming PHD’s paper was translated into a program that isn’t working all that well but manages to fill up reams of paper and get people hurt. Greaattt….
I spent twenty years in police works seeing exactly the same thing. Paper pushing bureaucrats inside the system putting out new and better plans after the last batch of “new and better plans” failed miserably. I hope the man makes it out, but who knows.
it is the silence from washington that is deafening. i did not like or vote for gw. he did, however, clearly caption the enemy, the axis of evil. so everybody knew who was what. with this dhimmi in the white house it is chaos, nothing will be accomplished, we will remain unprotected and vulnerable here and everywhere else in the world.
12. Don’t you mean “Take as many of those mohos with me as I can?”
Just another reason we ought not be in an endless occupation of iraq.
It’s Clinton’s fault. Clinton and Carter. And Millard Filmore. And Eve.
Salomi was not a contractor but a US DA civilian in a combat zone. We have lots of those. And there is no front or rear in this war. It is still an insurgency. People get killed and captured — combatants and non-combatants. That Salomi was a member of a Human Terrain Team means that he was on a mision with a particular brigade trying to help that brigade understand the population among which it operates. Since our brigades deploy for a year or so and there is little continuity in areas of deployment for brigades, HTT assists in passing on population knowledge the next brigade in the area during RIPTOA — military term for transition from one brigae to another in a given area. None of us know the circumstances of Salomi’s capture. We can only pray with his wife for his safe return or liberation.