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The Lost Letters of Al Qaeda

Is that recent letter between Zawahiri and Zarqawi authentic? .

For those who don’t know – this recent letter basically suggests the people of the U.S. will wimp out and force their President to leave Iraq too soon and, well, that will allow them to set up an Islamic state and move out from there – eventually taking over the whole Middle East (no more Israel). If true, this is a powerful letter supporting the administration’s “we will stay until the job is done (although we can’t quite tell you what that job is)” policy. Some are questioning if this is simply propaganda created by the administration.

They might not be so suspicious if they knew about the “lost letters” – these are very similar in how they portray the “people” of America vs. their government. The lost letters are very interesting. These were translated roughly into English – and I’m only including the relevant parts (cutting out most of the various ‘peace be upon hims’ and ‘salams’):

And it should be said that any indictments of Karl Rove or the one they call Scooter will be very helpful in establishing an Islamic Caliphant. If they do indeed proceed, this could be the event that turns the war in the Holy Lands to our favor.

I am hoping the pressure to go back on suspending the Davis Bacon Act in the Gulf States devasted by Private Katrina will be bowed to. If they force them to pay what the Infidels call a prevailing wage, this could cause us to lose the great jihad in Iraq.
I also have analyzed the situation with the Senator they call Delay. Should they successfully prosecute him, this will certainly help all jihadists throughout the world. The American people are helping us so much with these actions.

We dread greatly the confirmation of the infidel woman to the Supreme Court. If she is confirmed, this will set back our jihad many years. We do hope the infidel Bush relents and withdraws her nomination.

I was concerned during the time after the devastation by Private Katrina. It seems Americans were pressuring their government to act quickly to save the victims – if the government had listened it would have undermined our jihad in many places. It is fortunate that the leaders of America are not swayed by the American people as by doing so they would most certainly harm our great jihad. Death to America. Jihad Forever. Salam Malakim.

I thought this was very much in line with the letter that Al Qaeda denies they wrote – showing that maybe they did write it, as they have a similar, how should we say it, spin.

Want a New Perspective on Life in Iraq?

Check out Baghdad Girl – lots of cute kitties then a post such as the one entitled “We Are Living in Hell.”

Surreal doesn’t being to describe it.

Also – Young Mammy is a very moving blog from a mother of three living in Mosul. This piece in particular will get you.

Chief of Operations in Charge of Beheadings and Bridge Dangling of Non-Combatants

How is this for a formal title: Abu Farraj al-Libbi, recently nabbed in Pakistan and now in U.S. custody is the “Chief of Operations in Charge of U.S. and British Plots” – well, I guess it gets to the point. I’m imagining other titles they might use:

Deputy Chief of Suicide Bombers in Charge of Exploding Devices When Soldiers Give Children Candy
Chief of Plots to Breach the Green Zone
Deputy Director of Making Road to Airport Most Dangerous in World

Based on photo below (and others) I think they may also have a:

Chief in Charge of Teaching Jihadists How to Glare at Camera in Creepy Way to Send Chills Down Spines of Infidels

In an intercepted Zawahiri letter to al-Zarqawi he suggests pulling back from all those nasty decapitations to improve, get this, public relations. You think?

We Never Bought Wheat from Australia. We Have Always Bought Wheat from the U.S.

Gee, big surpise. Don’t the Aussies know you need friends in high places to get government contracts now?

Australia is not going to be the last to find out who comes first in Iraq from now on. I am sure we will hear how we “earned it.”

Iraq, of course, is quite used to cronyism. They just have someone new picking the cronies – and when it gets this out of control it is going to get ugly.

“Will Work for Death Sentence”

More stories of profitting off others’ misery, this time by contractors in Iraq.

Sadly, many Americans vote for those who support policies that undercut the average worker’s ability to live a decent life. Anyone who has anxiety about how precarious their financial health is these days knows the rosy economic picture painted by the current administration is far removed from the reality of the average American. Many are one paycheck away from economic devastation – and with the new bankruptcy laws, they could very well never rebuild their lives.

Although the article says many of the practices going on in Iraq are ‘against the law’ we all know how we look the other way in the name of excessive profit. American companies break the law every day hiring illegal workers – just another way to take advantage of the desperately poor while spouting platitudes about how they would so much worse off if they didn’t have the slave-wage jobs. If it helps you sleep at night…

Casualties in Iraq, Afghanistan Broken Down

A bit depressing, but important nonetheless. This site keeps track of casualties, breaking them down by military, contractor, female etc.

They Came, They Saw, They Screwed It Up

Michael Klare via TomDispatch takes a look at American “oil policy” in Iraq - pre-war to post-Katrina. Continue reading →

Tillman’s Complexity Defies the Simplistic Labels Given Him

The tragic death by friendly fire was covered up at first, but there is even more than that to the story of this complex man who questioned everything…he is far more fascinating than he has been portrayed – a patriot but not a blind patriot. He believed in his country and his countrymen, but he did not blindly believe anything and everything the government tried to shove down our throats, including, it seems, the legitimacy of the Iraq war.

So Saudi ’bout Iraq

When the folks that sent us the 9/11 hijackers start fretting about disintegration in Iraq it’s hard to believe the rose-colored-glasses cover stories of the administration.