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my2cents: holy shiite

Well, that certainly sets the wheels in motion for what I'm sure will be a fantastic debate.

Al-Qaeda Militans storm jail, free 140
2 hours, 11 minutes ago

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Dozens of al Qaeda-led militants stormed an Iraqi jail in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday and freed up to 140 prisoners in one of the biggest prison breaks since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, police said.

As many as 300 militants led by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, attacked Mosul's northwestern Badoush prison just after sunset in the ethnically mixed city and overwhelmed police, who were forced to call the U.S. military for backup, officials said.

Hisham al-Hamdani, a member of the Mosul provincial government, said Abu Omar al-Baghdadi took part in the attack himself. The Islamic State in Iraq is a body set up by al Qaeda's Iraq wing and other Sunni militant groups in October.

Most of the prisoners were believed to be insurgents, police said.

http://yahoo.com/
my2cents: holy shiite.. I wonder if the Police even tried to face the Al-Qaedas..

Relax, my magic eight-ball tells me that there will be peace in the Middle East by christmas.

Damn those Kurds! Can't they control their own country? America does not have infinite patience, you know.

I don't think anyone can blame them...We've all seen what goes on in those prisons.

I don't think anyone can blame them...We've all seen what goes on in those prisons.

Yeah, we're making them look like patriots now :(

I think that the government should make sure that the police is able to prevent jailbreaks. 140 prisoners escaped is just awful.

It looks like al-Qaeda more than has its shiite together; too bad we can't say the same thing about the US and it's "War on Terror".

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and forgive me if I sound unreasonable, but I disapprove of what those Al Qaedas are doing.

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and forgive me if I sound unreasonable, but I disapprove of what those Al Qaedas are doing.

prepare to be flamed

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and forgive me if I sound unreasonable, but I disapprove of what those Al Qaedas are doing.

This simply proves that there's a connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq, just as the administration said. And again, the Iraqis must learn to control their country, because the US can't be expected to bail them out forever.

Oh God what an embarrassment for the US and Iraqi government, this really shows how weak they are in stopping things like this from happening.

This simply proves that there's a connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq, just as the administration said. And again, the Iraqis must learn to control their country, because the US can't be expected to bail them out forever.

There never was a connection between Saddam and Al Queda, if anything he kept them out of Iraq. It was only until we came in and destabalized the country that Al Queda snaked its way in.

I do agree that the Iraqi government needs to get off its haunches because one day we might pull a Vietnam on their ass and jump ship.

This simply proves that there's a connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq, just as the administration said. And again, the Iraqis must learn to control their country, because the US can't be expected to bail them out forever.

Are you serious? Terrorists didn't show up in Iraq untill after it was invaded.

As for running the country...You call turning a country into a battlefield "bailing them out" ?

This simply proves that there's a connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq, just as the administration said. And again, the Iraqis must learn to control their country, because the US can't be expected to bail them out forever.

Actually your wrong, a recent Iraqi Intelligence Report indicates that 85% of the insurgency are Iraqi nationalist sectarian groups, the remaining 15% foreign Jihadis. These 15% came to Iraqi after the invasion to fight the occupation, so it was the US essentially who created both the Iraqi national insurgency and attracted the foreign jihadis to the country.

And your other comment is utterly despicable, the US invaded Iraq, and now their trying to put all the blame on the Iraqis for their own failures in the occupation. It was the US who squandered all of Iraq's billions in aid in shady privatization deals, and it was the US who sacked the entire Iraqi Army and Civil Service indiscriminately for supposed links to Saddam, so that Iraqi infrastructure and all aspects of state are now government by an untrained civil service, and now all the former Iraqi Army are insurgents and the new ones are fresh recruits. The US made this horrible mistake in invading Iraq, and now they alone must fix it. And blaming the Iraqis themselves, the Iranians, Syrians or whoever just proves how desperate and incompetent the Bush administration truly is.

There never was a connection between Saddam and Al Queda, if anything he kept them out of Iraq. It was only until we came in and destabalized the country that Al Queda snaked its way in.

I do agree that the Iraqi government needs to get off its haunches because one day we might pull a Vietnam on their ass and jump ship.

Are you serious? Terrorists didn't show up in Iraq untill after it was invaded.

As for running the country...You call turning a country into a battlefield "bailing them out" ?

Actually your wrong, a recent Iraqi Intelligence Report indicates that 85% of the insurgency are Iraqi nationalist sectarian groups, the remaining 15% foreign Jihadis. These 15% came to Iraqi after the invasion to fight the occupation, so it was the US essentially who created both the Iraqi national insurgency and attracted the foreign jihadis to the country.

And your other comment is utterly despicable, the US invaded Iraq, and now their trying to put all the blame on the Iraqis for their own failures in the occupation. It was the US who squandered all of Iraq's billions in aid in shady privatization deals, and it was the US who sacked the entire Iraqi Army and Civil Service indiscriminately for supposed links to Saddam, so that Iraqi infrastructure and all aspects of state are now government by an untrained civil service, and now all the former Iraqi Army are insurgents and the new ones are fresh recruits. The US made this horrible mistake in invading Iraq, and now they alone must fix it. And blaming the Iraqis themselves, the Iranians, Syrians or whoever just proves how desperate and incompetent the Bush administration truly is.

:rolleyes:

Everyone line up so I can pull the other leg, so they're both the same length. Sheesh, guys.

Damn those Kurds! Can't they control their own country? America does not have infinite patience, you know.

Uhhh, the majority of the city is Arab. You might be thinking the surrounding area or you may not be thinking at all.

Uhhh, the majority of the city is Arab. You might be thinking the surrounding area or you may not be thinking at all.

You, too, fall in with the other three.

I was kidding.

Snip

Would now be a bad time to tell you that he was joking?

Would now be a bad time to tell you that he was joking?

I should be more obvious, I suppose. Still, those are the kinds of answers you'll get around here from some people, more's the pity.

It was a very good response, Andaras, really, I'm sorry I let you waste it preaching to the choir. :D

You, too, fall in with the other three.

I was kidding.

You were kidding about the Kurds needing to take more responsibility. Not that mosul is a kurdish city.

I should be more obvious, I suppose. Still, those are the kinds of answers you'll get around here from some people, more's the pity.

It was a very good response, Andaras, really, I'm sorry I let you waste it preaching to the choir. :D

oh.. lols

Al-Qaeda Militans storm jail, free 140
2 hours, 11 minutes ago

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Dozens of al Qaeda-led militants stormed an Iraqi jail in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday and freed up to 140 prisoners in one of the biggest prison breaks since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, police said.

As many as 300 militants led by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, attacked Mosul's northwestern Badoush prison just after sunset in the ethnically mixed city and overwhelmed police, who were forced to call the U.S. military for backup, officials said.

Hisham al-Hamdani, a member of the Mosul provincial government, said Abu Omar al-Baghdadi took part in the attack himself. The Islamic State in Iraq is a body set up by al Qaeda's Iraq wing and other Sunni militant groups in October.

Most of the prisoners were believed to be insurgents, police said.

http://yahoo.com/
my2cents: holy shiite.. I wonder if the Police even tried to face the Al-Qaedas..

Not good...

There never was a connection between Saddam and Al Queda, if anything he kept them out of Iraq. It was only until we came in and destabalized the country that Al Queda snaked its way in.

I do agree that the Iraqi government needs to get off its haunches because one day we might pull a Vietnam on their ass and jump ship.

It's kind of annoying how hard that is to get through people.

Saddaam was a secularist sunni. Osama was a fundemental shiite. Doesn't sound like much of a difference, but quite frankly those two groups of people want to kill each other. They want nothing to do with each other. Hell, the people we are fighting over there hate the other group about as much, if not more, than they actually hate us.

That being said, this is not good news. Not at all.

:rolleyes:

Everyone line up so I can pull the other leg, so they're both the same length. Sheesh, guys.

Oh...

http://radio.weblogs.com/0117471/images/myimages/sarcasm.gif

Well, that certainly sets the wheels in motion for what I'm sure will be a fantastic debate.yeah.. I think this news report deserves some of our attention ;)

:rolleyes:

Everyone line up so I can pull the other leg, so they're both the same length. Sheesh, guys.

I wasn't fooled by your boner, you Joker, you.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j315/crashcow/NSG/boners.jpg

Good for them. Now, can they return them? I swear its just as fun.

Saddaam was a secularist sunni. Osama was a fundemental shiite. Doesn't sound like much of a difference, but quite frankly those two groups of people want to kill each other. They want nothing to do with each other. Hell, the people we are fighting over there hate the other group about as much, if not more, than they actually hate us.


Osama is a fundamentalist Sunni, a salafist. Saddam was an Arab nationalist-a Ba'athist and a totalitarian dictator. Nutjobs like Osama just posed a threat to Saddam's rule over his country, he hated them.

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Nice.

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Nice.wise man.
<< you got the hidden message. <<

wise man.
<< you got the hidden message. <<

oh yes, ;)

I am reminded of the Bastille...

I am reminded of the Bastille...

hey, thats another good one.

:rolleyes:

Everyone line up so I can pull the other leg, so they're both the same length. Sheesh, guys.

Its hard to detect satire when it's word for word whitehouse policy.

Its hard to detect satire when it's word for word whitehouse policy.

Exactly right, not that WH doesn't make very good satire, because it does.

I think we should pull out of Iraq and let Al Qaeda invade Europe and the US. That way, we can fight an insurgency against them. Insurgencies seem to be much easier than occupations.

Insurgencies seem to be much easier than occupations.Insurgent army can defeat the occupiers.. only with the support of the local occupation.

If the American Population did not support the Insurgents @ the Revolution.. G.Washington (and his gang) would have been sent to Guantanamo (or hanged) by the well trained King's Army. (yes.. I know there was no Guantanamo torture camp)