Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[File it under...] al-Zarqawi is a Punk Bitch Who Won't Fight Because He Knows He'd Get 'Owned': including martyrdom operations has been sanctified by many scholars even if it meant killing innocent... or not America wants to accept it, the war on terror is a religious war. If it wasn't then why aren'... CNN call them insurgents and not terrorists? The dictionary calls an insurgent "a person who rises
[Counterterror.typepad.com] The Counterterrorism Blog: The Jihad in Iraq: An Engine for ...: Needless to say, it is difficult to imagine Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or anyone else (Iraqi or non-Iraqi) actually succeeding in establishing a revolutionary Salafist regime in Iraq along the lines of Mullah Omar and the Taliban. There also seems little doubt that the ability of insurgents to move within Iraq or across the Syrian border has been significantly curtailed since the heydays of "steadfast Fallujah" last summer and fall.
[Tnr.com] The New Republic Online: Iraq'd: (Now, here the caveat about measuring support should come into play: For example, it could be that the insurgents are self-sufficient enough to ignore the Sunni clerics' injunctions. If true, that would actually be a pretty positive development, since it would suggest that the balance of Sunni opinion really is against the terrorists, giving a counterinsurgency campaign more political breathing room. But the apparent inability of Sunni leaders to stop the terror through their preaching is bound to lead their Shia and Kurdish counterparts to question their intentions, and not without good reason.)
[Freedomstruth.blogspot.com] Liberating Iraq: The Iraqis have been deployed, in units stiffened by Americans, in some of the war's toughest operations, like the offensive that recaptured Falluja in November and assaults in other cities, like Mosul and Najaf, where insurgents have threatened to take control. Last month, General Petraeus, flanked by visiting generals from the American Special Forces, glowed as he watched in a hangar at the special forces' base as the Iraqis stormed a mock enemy-held house and simulated a room-by-room raid with live ammunition and stun grenades.
[Donaldsensing.com] One Hand Clapping » Blog Archive » Terrorism’s toll: This attack came not long after 70-80 terrorists launched a fairly conventional attack againt Abu Ghraib prison where they lost 50. (Some American officers think this attack was the work of Baathist dead enders, not al Qaeda.) At any rate, such attacks are bloodlettings for the insurgents.
[Frontpagemag.com] FrontPage magazine.com :: Saudi Terror Conference: Part IV by ...: For 14 years he sought [martyrdom]. He always pointed to his head and wished that a rifle bullet would split his forehead… We got a phone call from him finally, in which he said he was going to the Jihad in Iraq…" The brother of Abd Al-Hadi Al-Shehri told the paper: “From a young age he wanted Jihad… After fulfilling this commandment of pilgrimage to Mecca, there was no contact with him until news of his martyrdom reached us.” Another article from the same paper on April 12, 2004 reported that a Saudi national was "congratulated" by many for the death of his son as a martyr in Fallujah.
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