May 21 2008
Now Come The Horror Stories Of Mahdi Army Atrocities
There are some very naive and delusional liberals who still think the Iraq government victory over the Mahdi Army criminals is actually a victory for Sadr and his Sadrists movement. Â But they are simply grasping at straws so they do not have to face how pathetically wrong they have been on the Maliki action itself, the war in Iraq and the war on terror generally. Â The fact is the Sadrists and al-Sadr gave political cover for heinous crimes commited by the Mahdi Islamo Fascists as they raped and killed their fellow Muslims. Â Once Basra and Sadr City were liberated it was only a matter of time that these atrocities would start to be reported and become public, as told by the people who were being oppressed. Â And so it has begun:
The man, blindfolded and handcuffed, crouches in the corner of the detention center while an Iraqi soldier grills him about rampant crimes being carried out by gangs in the southern city of Basra.
How many girls did you kill and rape?” the soldier asks.
“I raped one, sir,” the man responds.
“What was her name?”
“Ahlam,” he says.
Ahlam was a university student in the predominantly Shiite city of Basra. The detainee said the gang he was in kidnapped her as she was leaving the university, heading home.
“They forced me, and I killed her with a machine gun, sir,” he says.
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Women bore the brunt of the militias’ extremist ideologies. The militants spray-painted threats on walls across Basra, warning women to wear headscarves and not to wear make-up. Women were sometimes executed for the vague charge of doing something “un-Islamic.”
In the wasteland on the outskirts of Basra, dotted with rundown homes, the stench of death mixes with the sewage. Local residents told the Iraqi Army that executions often take place in the area, particularly for women, sometimes killed for something as seemingly inocuous as wearing jeans.
Militias implemented their own laws with abandon, threatening stores for displaying mannequins with bare shoulders or for selling Western music. Many store owners are still too frightened to speak publicly.
But the horrors of militia rule are now surfacing as some residents begin to feel more comfortable speaking out.
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Inside her rundown home, Sabriya’s watery eyes peer out from under her robe. She points to the first photo of one of her sons on the wall.
“This one was killed because he was drinking,” she says.
She draws her finger across her neck and gestures at the next photo.
“This one was slaughtered for his car.”
“This one the same,” she adds, looking at the third.
Her three sons, her daughter and her sister were all killed by the hard-line militia. Her sister was slaughtered because she was a single woman living alone.
“They said [to her], ‘Why don’t you have a husband?’ ” Sabriya says. “They came in at night and put a pillow on her face and shot her in the head.”
I predicted this would be the actual fallout from the liberation of the Shiite areas of Iraq from the jackboot of the Mahdi Militia. Â Like all Islamo Fascists they are obsessed with committing the most brutal of crimes against their fellow humans. Â It is their deep insecurity that drives them to hate, and then punish, those who have successfully evolved with the modern world. Â It is their acidic insecurity that drives them to rape and torture those who represent what they can never be. Â This is the ugly side of inciting the failures in life to a messianic cause – they get god complexes and start meting out punishment with gusto and glee.
And this is what the Muslim Street will be faced with – as it was with the al-Qaeda animals who inflicted the same atrocities on Iraq Sunnis. Â And the backlash will also be the same, now that the veil has been ripped away from these animals and we and the Iraqis see them for what they are. Â
Arabs are a proud society, and they take honor very seriously. Â The reaction that will blow back on the Sadrists for covering up these atrocities will be massive. The Sadrist will rightfully take the brunt of this in the fall elections, while Maliki and his government will be seen as the heros and saviors. Â But more than that, the liberal appeasers in the West will have a lot to answer for too. Â Why should America have left Iraq to these thugs? Â Why should America have cut-and-run to leave little girls to be raped and killed when we had it within our means to free them? Â Why did the media side with these animals and their masters in predicting no good would come out of purging Iraq of these scum?Â
There are two elections this fall where these questions will be pondered by Americans and Iraqis. Â And I would suspect the conventional liberal wisdom, as short-sighted and deplete of humanity as it has been shown to be, will be up ended. Â Politics can be powerful – but the sight of human suffering at the hands of animals like this is much, much more powerful than any propaganda or spin. Â No American should be able to rationalize away these crimes against humanity – no amount of votes are worth this kind of ugly carnage. Â A new Awakening is about to spread across Iraq and out to the world. Â An Awakening that exposes the true evil of Islamo Fascism and the deplorable choices made by the liberals in ignoring this evil, even at times rooting for it to win out over American interests.
“Arabs are a proud society, and they take honor very seriously.”
I believe that is something that people who have served over there come to know but is lost on many people here. They are portrayed by too many here as medieval barbarians living in the 5th century.
Modern communications and education is going to result in a massive culture change for the better in that region.
I don’t feel confident that a sufficient number of Americans want to understand the importance of exposing the brutality of these people.
The wars we are fighting exposes these people, but wars are costly, in money and life. Can a sufficient number of Americans give up something today for a better tomorrow. I don’t know.
“There are two elections this fall where these questions will be pondered by Americans and Iraqis. And I would suspect the conventional liberal wisdom, as short-sighted and deplete of humanity as it has been shown to be, will be up ended.”
One would surely think so. Where else do the libs have to move the goal posts? If they figure out where to move them, then the media will surely help them do it.
Quick. Name one prediction about the Iraq war the left was correct on………Quagmire? Civil War? 100,000 dead? No political progress?
From all appearances there’s more good news getting ready to come out from that region but I don’t want to “jinx” it yet so I am gonna sit tight for a week or two. Things are looking MUCH better in many different ways, though.
[…] the military side of things, The Strata-Sphere has this: Mahdi Horror Exposed. From AJ: As I predicted the liberation of the Shiite areas of Iraq from the Mahdi thugs is […]
American casualties are down too. Knock on wood. Please God.
Come on Crosspatch…….give us a little something. Good news is so hard to come by.
From Flopping Aces:
http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/05/21/winds-of-war-hope-and-change-we-can-believe-in/#more-4654
“why did the media side with these animals and their masters in predicting no good would come out of purging iraq of these scum?”
the media didn’t side with this scum. that’s a ridiculous fallacy that i just assume you are always trying to perpetrate in order to assuage your guilt for backing the policies that did actually encourage this to happen. it did NOT HAVE TO HAPPEN this way. civilian leadership could have chosen other paths than the political choices they always made. you have always taken the stand that this way is the only way. that is patently false…plenty of other options have been presented and rejected out of arrogance and hubris. you always take the gutter-snipe partisan hack view of “…conventional liberal wisdom, as short-sighted and deplete of humanity as it has been shown to be…” but make no mistake…the current civilian leadership are the ones that failed to plan for this, as well as a host of other predicted events. failing to plan is short-sighted. torture as practiced at abu gahrib and gitmo and at black-ops sites around the world is deplete of humanity. these things, as well as 9.11 by the way, happened on the watch of those you choose to deify. forgetting this and trying to project onto someone else is to be expected…it’s a natural human response. but at the end of the day blood is on your hands and the hands of the “leadership” you support blindly and without so much as an ounce of critical thought.
gwood…um…the mahdi army and maliki are two iraqi entities in a struggle for political power. that is the definition of a civil war. cognitively dis-advantaged.
“the media didn’t side with this scum”
Apparently Norm missed several Times columns that released sensitive intel operations. Or Rockefeller’s memo stating they would use sensitive intel against our president when needed. Or the fact that a sitting Demcrat has recently been caught aiding and abetting FARC or “scum” as he’d call them.
Gotta admire these Dems, don’t you? No truth or number of dead will get in the way of their own, selfish political goals.
“gwood…um…the mahdi army and maliki are two iraqi entities in a struggle for political power. that is the definition of a civil war. cognitively dis-advantaged.”
I stand corrected, sort of like what’s going on between Hillary and Obama………
(NORM)……..”the current civilian leadership are the ones that failed to plan for this, as well as a host of other predicted events”
I hope you’ve planned to enlighten us by providing us with the “host” of events predicted by the left concerning the Iraq war….that actually came true. Otherwise, I’d say it’s pretty poor planning on your part.
What we have here is a victory, an indisputable win for the good guys, Norm, it’s sort of like the Pistons claiming, “Well the Celtics beat us last night, but we were ahead a few times, I think it was poor planning on their part.”
Gwood,
“between Hillary and Obama…”
That cracks me up!
I would also ask Norm how Iran fits into this Iraqi “civil war”…or al Qaeda for that matter.
Norm,
No, the blood is on the hands of the terrorists and their enablers here at home.
•Remember the Church Commission and Jamie Gorelick that neutered our intelligence gathering.
•Remember the Dems that undermined our homeland security.
•Remember the NYT leaks.
•Remember the appeasers giving encouragement to the enemy.
Unity at home would have shortened this War and inspired potential allies. How telling that it is some of the same folks still dripping with innocent blood from their unholy sabotage of the US in Vietnam.
Amen, Macker…Amen.
“Politics can be powerful – but the sight of human suffering at the hands of animals like this is much, much more powerful than any propaganda or spin. No American should be able to rationalize away these crimes against humanity – no amount of votes are worth this kind of ugly carnage. ”
Because of propoganda and spin 90% of Americans will never know the real story of Iraq especially in time for this falls coronation of liberals.
God I pray I’m wrong, but fear I am not. It will take the pain of liberal policies for the general polulace to reject them, after serious harm has been done to many at home and abroad.
I have your same fears dhunter. So much of America will buy Obama no matter how illogical or dangerous his policies are. Not only will they get lots of people killed, they will put this country into a recession. If it emotes they will vote.
The bright side is this great country survived Jimmy the peanut farmer Carter and it may take that kind of reminder but with majorities in House and senate real damage could be done.
How can the American sheeple not see the fallacy? Suing OPEC for Gods sakes, how about accessing our own vast resources?
Pelosi’s been pretty quite after her romp abroad I wonder what the Iraqi and American commanders said to shut her trap uo so tight?
Maybe Israel scared her into silence dhunter.