Apr 22 2008
Iraqis Turning In Mahdi Army Fighters
Seems Sadr’s Mahdi Army may not have a lot of support in the Iraqi population after all:
IA soldiers discovered a weapons cache in 2 vehicles during Op Charge of the Knights in the Al-Quibla district of Basra, April 19.
Acting on a tip from an Iraqi citizen, the IA soldiers found ordnance in the vehicles, including RPG rounds with launcher, an EFP device, various sized mortars, a homemade .50 caliber rifle with standard and armor piercing rounds, plastic explosives, electronic trigger devices, and a large amount of small arms ammo.
“The continued success of Op Charge of the Knights is due in part by the local Iraqis providing numerous tips to the IA on where these weapons are stored,†said Lt. Col. Neil Harper, deputy public affairs officer for MNC-Iraq. “The citizens of Iraq are protecting their own communities, working with the Iraqi Security and CF; they are taking greater responsibility for their own lives and their communities.â€
Who could blame them? I wouldn’t want a truckload of RPGs and IEDs parked on my street either. The biggest factor the SurrenderMedia and others neglected when considering Sadr’s threats of war are whether Iraqi Shiites have any burning reasons to throw away what they have gained since being liberated from Saddam’s butchers and start a bloody shiite on shiite civil war in their own streets and neighborhoods. There is just no reason for Shiites to get into a blood bath for Sadr fat butt. Ain’t going to happen, not while there is a Shiite Prime Minister at the head of the Iraq government.
From Deans World:
“Kevin Drum:
“The New York Times reports that Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army has mostly melted away in Basra. Nobody quite knows why”
Nobody knows why?? Let me hazard a guess, Kevin: it may have something to do with the thousands of Iraqi Army troops flooding the city with tanks, helicopters and armored vehicles, not to mention the accompanying U.S. forward air controllers calling down death from above. Just an idea.”
http://www.deanesmay.com/2008/04/21/the-fogs-of-war-and-politics-part-two/
Dean goes on to a very good point – when left-leaning writers try to analyze the news using only “authentic” MSM reporting (while ignoring people like Bill Rogio) than they are stuck trying to explain away results that look baffling and mysterious based on what they believe. How could the Mahdi Army disapear from Basra? Don’t we all know they won and Maliki lost???
AJ, did you know that the Afghans have woven rugs that are THANK YOU’S to America for freeing their country from Russia and the Taliban? The rugs have the twin towers on them, the date of 9/11 and maps of the US and Afghanistan with a peace dove between them!
Havent’ seen that on the news, now have we?
I thought this was interesting from”Gateway Pundit”
Alseyed Josef Alsadar a member of the honored Sadar family wrote a letter to Alrafedain news (Nida’a al Rafidain News) which said: “Muqtada al-Sadr has tainted the reputation of this respected family, and the family disowns Muqtada. We are as innocent of him as the wolf is of the blood of Josef (Biblical (Old Testament I believe) and Koranic reference). The family is working on ways to discipline him with in the family. Consultations for this are held at the highest level to come up with punishments for its rogue son.
These courageous and dangerous statements come, for the fist time, from a member of the Sadar family. Alseyed Josef al-Sadr is considered to be a member of the family with deep faith who is rarely public. It appears he has broken his silence to show the truth before it is to late.
Maliki has no disgruntled members in his family? Wow! Shiites don’t want a civil war? Neither apparently did al Sadr if it could be avoided.
A “tip from a local citizen…” ?–it was early 2004 when the US military started bragging about the dramatic increase in “tips” from the populace and assuring that the insurgency was in its last throes.
Sorry, preachingpatriot, I guess the truth is hard 2 take.
A “tip from a local citizen…†?–it was early 2004 when the US military started bragging about the dramatic increase in “tips†from the populace and assuring that the insurgency was in its last throes.
Left by preachingpatriot on April 22nd, 2008
OH NO!
Is THIS the Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi Leftist Democratic Lying Kos-omac Traitor Nutbag, formerly known as…..”TRUTHMASTERBATES”???
C’mon now, be honest…Oh yeah, I forgot, you can’t, you’re an Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi Lying Traitor Leftist Nutbag, it’s not in your nature…and yeah, it’s everybody else’s fault too, right?
LOL, Cobalt!
Hey “patriot”, can you say “William Lind is a festering pustule on the backside of society in desperate need of lancing.”
I’ll bet you can’t!
See Dale,
As PT Barnum noted another fool is born every minute. I may have to turn off registration if we keep having a troll infestation.
This one is as uninformed as all the rest. But remember as they tout their ignorance they make the right side look great in comparison.
If I cite quotes from the US military in 2004 bragging about a
supposedly decisive upsurge in tips among the Iraqi population would you admit you’re grasping at straws or are merely doing what war propagandists always do in every war?
Kathie, yes that is a major development. Sadr’s family have disowned him and claim that he has dishonored him. I am guessing that he won’t be around much longer as a viable pain in our rear.
LOL!
Preachie, there have been continuous increases in tips as the Iraqis have soured on the Islamo Fascists and their bloody atrocities.
Why is the 2004 data point so important? It’s not, it is just one moment in the history of the conflict which has no bearing on the situation today – except as being a point on the path to today’s successes. The people of Iraq have sided with the Iraq government and now fight the Islamo Fascists. They fight in the security forces and they fight by giving tips to hunt down the terrorists.
All your point does is provide a lame argument to a surrendercrat in deep denial about the progress in Iraq. By focusing on that one point you have been able to shield your fragile little ego from the reality of 2008 – a full four years later.
Why you think you are impressing people with your myopic denial is the real fun for all of us here. Keep it up!
You should have used Tokyo Rose, PP, much better fit.
“Preachie, there have been continuous increases in tips as the Iraqis have soured on the Islamo Fascists and their bloody atrocities.”
“Tips?” “Soured on?” Nothing like actual bribes paid to the Sunni Awakenings by, well, the American taxpayer, to turn them
agaisnt foreign jihadists. And enable you to chortle till the money runs out. That happens, at the latest, on Inaugeration Day.
Bribes? No need to bring Jack Murtha into this.
LOL!
Preachie it warms our hearts that you admit you were wrong, even if you had to try and make a non sequitur dodge and a very lame prediction. If you think any of the candidates are going to cut and run from Iraq you truly are the most gullible fool on the planet.
Big talk for a guy who admits there has been an increase in violence in Iraq for the past months. What matters the mix of allied and temporarily allied when the overall violence increases?
Speaking of violence and intransigent resistance to admitting defeat
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq22apr22,1,1030494.story
has anyone checked if the military has announced how apparently serious the Basra (American) casualties were yesterday? Two more US troops were killed elsewhere, several wounded, and several of the bribed “Awakenings” were killed by a female jihadist. Now Vince will come and tell us this isn’t really war.
http://americanfootprints.com/drupal/node/3991
concise commentary, particularly from Martin, as to why there is no “winning” for America against al Sadr.
“concise commentary, particularly from Martin, as to why there is no “winning†for America against al Sadr.”
Left by preachingpatriot on April 22nd, 2008
Isn’t that a convenient position to take…no winning for America against Al Sadr. So now when we win we lose. I guess that’s the only way BurkaBoy can admit he’s wrong…
He’ll be six feet under and Preachy will still be saying he won.