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41 Percent of Al Qaeda fighters in Iraq are Saudis

I just heard the most predictable factoid: 41% of Al Qaeda fighters in Iraq are Saudi Arabians. Apparently record keeping by some Al Qaeda higher-ups has been captured by the U.S. military and careful records have revealed a detailed accounting of the social and regional makeup of the Al Qaeda operatives inside Iraq. Many of these Islamic terrorists are being recruited directly off of Islamic college campuses across the Middle East and around the world. This, again, is quite predictable.

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Jammeh Calls for Islamic Solidarity while blaming the West

From allAfrica.com with some spelling edits by me for good measure and better English:

As Muslims all over the world celebrate Eid-ul-fitr, commonly known as Koriteh, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan, President Yahya Jammeh, has called on the Islamic Ummah to be steadfast, bold and united in the spirit of Islam to condemn any form of attack on the Islamic religion.

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Opening Sequence for ‘The Kingdom’ Lends Historical Insight

From Yahoo:

The Kingdom starts with a montage sweeping through the dustry sands of Saudi Arabia, briefly detailing the kingdom, the US, and its long history with oil, from 1932 to 2001. While that may sound boring, or even yawn-worthy, the music and editing on this sequence breeds more anticipation than some action movies. Historical video and audio clips are laid out on a clear timeline, and while no brief mention of an event can do it justice, it’s a quick and excellent short primer for the movie. There’s nothing quite as distracting as trying to follow along with everything in a film, especially a documentary, when you don’t know the background.

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Bush not willing to order preemptive strike on Iran?

Iran and its nuclear programWhile President Ahmanutjob of Iran gets U.S. Secret Service protection in NYC today and visits Ground Zero (despite NYC official protests) and speaks at Columbia University by invitation (there go our Leftofascist, dhimmi professors again), word slides down the hill that President George W. Bush doesn’t have the will to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities without apparently grandiose provocation. This country needs an enema.

From the Drudge Report comes a report that reads much like fantasy to me, but there might be some modicum of truth inside. You decide:

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Al-Sadr Never Misses an Opportunity to Cause USA Trouble

Muqtada al-Sadr capitalized on Iraqi tension yesterday after the Blackwater Company, a mercenary outfit hired to protect dignitaries in Iraq, came under fire from the Iraq government after the death of 8 Iraqi civilians. When are we going to actually start behaving like a force that believes in its own values and deal with slugs like al-Sadr properly? By properly I don’t mean appeasing his followers and letting al-Sadr run around free to aid Iran in the killing of American and Coalition soldiers; I mean shooting him.

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Bin Laden cites Chomsky, criticizes Democrats in latest tape

By now you’ve all heard about this tape, but I must post because of the significance that bin Laden appears to be yet alive, if only slightly warm. The tape appears to have been made sometime in mid-August because of references to the 67th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which just passed on August 6th. From MSNBC.com:

Osama and his black-dyed beardWASHINGTON - Democrats were criticized in a purported video by Osama bin Laden for being unable to stop the Iraq conflict. The video, obtained Friday by the U.S. government, NBC News and other news oprganizations, marked the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Young Americans

From Pat Dollard | Young Americans:

As I was flying through the sky, instead of being in a blackout as I should be, my mind was a perfectly focused computer: I realized that Conley had stepped directly onto a bomb, I realized he was dead, and I hoped as I landed that my wounds would not be so bad, and that I indeed might even survive. And somehow, I was able to wonder why I was completely free of the shock that 95% of the others told me they experienced. I wondered why I was so locked into the reality of what was happening.

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U.S. forces tracking Iranians in Iraq; Bush Administration waffling

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a KoranFrom the AP:

American forces are tracking about 50 members of an elite Iranian force who have crossed the border into southern Iraq to train Shiite militia fighters, a top U.S. general said Sunday.

In east Baghdad, a mortar barrage slammed into a mainly Shiite neighborhood, killing 12 and wounding 31, police said, and a major battle raged north of the capital where residents of a Shiite city were fighting what police said was a band of al-Qaida in Iraq gunmen.

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Gingrich labels war on terror ‘phony’

Newt GingrichA recent story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution reminded me of a brief interview I saw with Newt a day ago. There are important messages here from Gingrich. Pay close attention and read between the lines:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday the Bush administration is waging a “phony war” on terrorism, warning that the country is losing ground against the kind of Islamic radicals who attacked the country on Sept. 11, 2001.

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Patton rises from the grave to kick some sense into you dumb bastards

“This is not a Goddamn video game!”

OK, at ease. Sit down, shutup and listen to what General George S. Patton has to say about Iraq and the Long War. The man is one of my heroes, and if you didn’t know that it’s only because you haven’t been reading enough of the Anvil — you’re lucky I don’t send the General over to your house right now to slap you around!!

Pay attention and click play (I only wish I’d created this; it’s that great).

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Terror Threat Inside U.S. Said Serious

Jihad 2007From the AP:

The terrorist network Al-Qaida will likely leverage its contacts and capabilities in Iraq to mount an attack on U.S. soil, according to a new National Intelligence Estimate on threats to the American homeland.

The declassified key findings, to be released publicly on Tuesday, were obtained in advance by The Associated Press.

The report lays out a range of dangers—from al-Qaida to Lebanese Hezbollah to non-Muslim radical groups—that pose a “persistent and evolving threat” to the country over the next three years. As expected, however, the findings focus most of their attention on the gravest terror problem: Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network.

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Sunni insurgents in Iraq guilty of cyber-jihad

Complimenting very well what 1389 just recently posted — Is the U.S. government finally ready to confront cyberjihadism? — comes an article fresh from The Washington Times:

Sunni insurgents in Iraq are spreading their message of violence to the Arab and Muslim world via underground videos, writings and songs on the Internet, according to a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty report.

“There is rapt attention to the importance of media” among Sunni militant groups as they engage in sectarian violence with Shi’ites and oppose the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, said Daniel Kimmage, an RFE/RL analyst who co-authored the report “Iraqi Insurgent Media: The War of Images and Ideas.”

Individuals with computers and Internet connections are using simple software programs to compile videos of roadside bomb attacks and gunbattles, set them to songs promoting jihad, and share them with countless people, according to the report released in late June.

“It’s virtually impossible to tell” who is maintaining the Web sites and creating the content for them, Mr. Kimmage said Thursday. Some Web sites have existed for a few years, while others remain in operation for only a few months before they shut down for whatever reason.

One video compilation of bombings and attacks, called “Top 20,” is described as a “greatest hits” collection. “They say it’s to encourage healthy competition among insurgent groups,” Mr. Kimmage said.

Many videos start on Web sites with a small audience, but are quickly picked up by others until they become widely viewed. The report highlighted one example from a few months ago of a video depicting a sniper shooting U.S. soldiers in Baghdad, which was eventually aired on Al Jazeera television, a major Arab-world news channel.

“That really sends a message to the consumers of the media,” said Kathleen Ridolfo, who wrote the report with Mr. Kimmage. “It shows how channels like Al Jazeera do their part to support global jihad.”

The authors said that most Sunni insurgent videos and articles contain jihadist language — words like “crusaders” and “infidels” — to appeal to an audience beyond Iraq’s borders. This language was introduced to Iraqi insurgents by groups like al Qaeda, Ms. Ridolfo said.

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I have something to say here, very quickly: I think it is not necessarily a good thing for the American public to be so well-insulated from vivid images of our enemies killing our soldiers. In fact, I am going to start addressing that in slightly more visceral imagery here at the Anvil in the coming weeks. I am convinced that, just as we almost never see repeats of 9-11 footage on television, we are similarly being coddled like children by our government and media when it comes to the deaths of our soldiers, while our enemies use the images that should righteously incite us to further their own ends. This practice is wrong. We have every right to get pissed off; those are our people dying out there because of a death cult that should have stagnated back in the 7th century, but instead has festered like a never-healing open wound.

Insulating the public from the killing of our soldiers isn’t the answer, exposing the public to the evils of our Islamic enemies is. And point of fact, I think that’s the real motivation behind keeping the reality of the war from being presented more boldly to the American and Western public: to protect Muslims from an angry citizenry here in the States and abroad. The Bush Administration making stupid decisions again based primarily on Islamic appeasement policies.

What kind of soft, shallow and morally confused people have we become in the USA when we are willing to go watch ultra-violent movies like ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ or ‘Hostel’ for entertainment, but we aren’t willing to face the brutal realities of the very real ‘War on Terror’ for the good of ourselves?

No wonder we are losing the Long War.

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