From CENTCOM:
Coalition Forces positively identified a terrorist killed in an operation April 20 northwest of Baghdad.
Muhammad Abdullah Abbas al-Issawi, also known as Abu Abd al-Sattar and Abu Akram, was a known al-Qaeda terrorist leader known to operate in Karmah and Ameriyah areas and was the al-Qaeda in Iraq Security Emir of the eastern Anbar Province.
Coalition Forces were conducting operations targeting associates of a known senior leader within al-Qaeda in Iraq. During the operation the terrorists engaged ground forces with small arms fire. Coalition Forces used appropriate self-defense measures and engaged the armed men, killing two and detaining one. One of the terrorists killed has been positively identified as Abu Abd al-Sattar.
Coalition Forces recovered assault vests, weapons, hand grenades and suicide vests at the site.
Abu Abd al-Sattar had links to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and was reported to have been in contact with him since late 2004, up to al-Zarqawi’s death.
He was also a weapons supplier to insurgent forces fighting against the Iraqi Army, Iraqi Police and Coalition Forces, and had links to the recent surge in chlorine VBIED attacks across Iraq.
Intelligence reports also indicate that his VBIED cell used 12- to 13-year-old children as VBIED drivers.
“Abu Abd al-Satter’s death is a serious disruption to al-Qaeda in Iraq’s VBIED network,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesperson.
“This represents one more victory in the war against those that would deny safety and security to the Iraqi people.”
[my emphasis]
Good news, but nothing the Congressional Democrats will be interested in hearing. By their own admission, they’ll remain unconvinced by whatever General Petraeus has to report—even if they don’t bother listening to it in the first place, or are content to misconstrue it and then hide from any possible attempts to set the record straight.
Just remember: Muhammad Abdullah Abbas al-Issawi is the kind of person that Harry Reid wishes to surrender Iraq over to—and whom the Democrats continue, by focusing attention elsewhere, to provide rhetorical and tactical cover as they work daily to turn President Bush into the villain of the Iraq narrative. All so they can try to take back the White House in 2008.
Evidently, global warming legislation and universal healthcare mean just that much to our modern day America firsters. END CARBON EMISSIONS! BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
Somewhere in hell, General Patton hops off a bed of hot coals and slaps Abbie Hoffman right across his face.
(h/t ehl)
I think slapping Abbie Hoffman in the face would be GSP’s idea of heaven, not hell.
But it sounds like the place gets one more inhabitant: good for the Coalition, I say: he can give my regards to Saddam, Uday, Qusay, and Zarqawi.
Now the dems will get indignant. That’s child labor they’re using and they have no union. Twelve year old suicide bombers is beyond the pale.
Nonsense, they are giving underpriveledged, minority children free driving lessons in afterschool programs- the kind of programs Chimpy cancelled so he could fund his illegal war, by the way.
Naah, the Dems won’t get indignant.
To them, this cell is only using 12-13-year-old Iraqi children to blow up crowds of Iraqi civilians because the United States–no, strike that; George Bush–is waging war on Iraq.
la la la la la….I can’t hear you!
I would have thought Harry Reid would have taken the news of one his guys getting whacked a little harder than that.
Hey, once you’ve cuddled with the likes of Joe Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Kim Il Sung, Joe Tito and Ho Chi Minh, guys like this smell positively exquisite. Why anyone would think that the Left would find anything unattractive about him is beyond me.
Look for this jihad-crazed sociopath’s face to be a hit79 on tee-shirts everywhere.
If the Dems can get the Iraqi goverment to raise the legal driving age to 16. we can end this war.
Those Iraqi kids are just trying to blow up imperialist oppressors that Iraqi adults won’t blow up.
Won’t anyone THINK of the CHILDREN?
I was initially puzzled by the use of this word “terrorist,” until I realized the source was CENTCOM, and not Al-Reuters or some such.
I’m THINKING of the CHILDREN and,
I find it deliciously ironic that the bush-hating green people have chosen a mercury-toxic dim lightlulb as their debut symbol for curing all the world of a global meltdown.
Now why’d you have to bring up Al Gore?
Simple . All who believe in AGW lead a zero emission lifestyle …. starting with not breathing .
Predicted network news coverage: zero.
Predicted human rights industry outrage: little.
Wha? BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!! Funniest freakin’ thing I’ve heard!!!!
Rob,
Would that we could bottle and sell that…
Let’s not forget that General Patraeus was in DC today to meet with GWB and the congressional leadership at the White House and brief them about the recent developments in Iraq, the progress the “surge” has madee and share what he needs to successfully prosecute the war.
Of course, Speaker Pelosi DEMANDED her own meeting with him in her office on Capitol Hill, and when told that it couldn’t/wouldn’t be arranged, she REFUSED to attend the White House
meeting!
Now of course, this will be all over the media and her fit of pique will be widely criticized as a childish temper tantrum, right?
And the mainstream media will accurately portray this as proof that she’s more interested in scoring political points than she is being properly informed about a war our military is fighting and dying in every day, right?
Right?……
PVRWC: silly person you…come on, don’t you realize Nancy Pelosi is de facto head of state? After all, she went on that officially unoffical visit to our good friends, the Syrians? That makes her the people’s president, right?
The People’s Prime Minister, comrade, not president.
PVRWC, I dislike Pelosi as much as the next rethug, but maybe you’re being a bit harsh? at least if this is accurate:
I’m undecided on the “Petraeus agrees with me” bit.
She probably took a statement from him that the coalition forces are holding the jihadis off while the Iraqi government shapes up as saying there’s no military solution.
Of course, there’s never a purely military solution, unless you’re intent on genocide. The military is used to enforce your will towards a political or diplomatic solution. Removing the US forces from Iraq would prevent a political/diplomatic solution favorable to the US.
I’m not sure if the Democrats are unaware of that, or consider it a feature.
“Of course, Speaker Pelosi DEMANDED her own meeting with him in her office on Capitol Hill, and when told that it couldn’t/wouldn’t be arranged, she REFUSED to attend the White House
meeting”
Didnt they talk yesterday? I’d think they could brief the 3d in line for CiC without too much effort.
emmadine,
The 3rd in line hasn’t shown a whole heck of a lot of interest in receiving such. Too busy. Not important enough. Or so she has said.
Yup. She’s totally invited to the House briefing, what with her being Speaker and all.
I’d go if I were her.
The only way General Patton’s in Hell is if he’s leading a tank assault on it. There’s only one appropriate final destination for his ilk: Valhalla.
“The 3rd in line hasn’t shown a whole heck of a lot of interest in receiving such. Too busy. Not important enough. Or so she has said.”
And yet they talked yesterday. Without too much effort it seems. Mission accomplished. Outrage begin.
Oh yes, emmadine – and a phone call just is so much better than a briefing in person. Heck, every seniorofficer I ever briefed just said “meh, call it in”. And before I took patrols out in Parwan or Kapisa or Kabul – just a quick teleconference.
Remind me to transfer away from any brigade staff you join…
I suggest Speaker Pelosi telecommute from her home district. SHould be good enough, right?
Oh, I think she may have been phoning it in for some time, now.
Hey, she had a hair appointment.
PELOSI DYED AND PEOPLE DIED!
Its the 21st century. And we’re outraged that people aren’t doing briefings in person. Would a teleconference show enough caring? Is a 1 on 1 call better than a group brief? This is the source of the outrage? ok.
“I suggest Speaker Pelosi telecommute from her home district. SHould be good enough, right?”
Don’t see why they all don’t. It will probably happen in the future. Good idea actually.
um, was it recorded? because honestly? it’s a bit disturbing that everyone came out of the briefing saying their opinions on Iraq were confirmed.
Well, it looks like Gore twisted the intelligence to wage his war—exactly what companies did Gore invest in?
emmadine – I guess you will continue to wilfully misunderstand or posture. The IRAQ AOR commander flies from the other side of the world to tell you what is happening – and you are “too busy” or “have schedule conflicts” and this should be taken seriously? Why does Henry Waxman insist on having people sit in chairs and face up to him at hearings? Why do we have people actually sit in trials, instead of watching by monitor?
More specifically – do you not think that avoiding meeting the General in person conotes a lack of respect or taking what he has to say seriously?
A teleconference about which GL policy one is going to apply to a series of asbestos claims is one thing – Trying to present yourself as a serious part of government, but with “scheduling conflicts” that prevent you from meeting the key uniformed officer involved in your nation’s biggest military operation? If you want to continue to support that – be my guest.
I will rather ignore your prescription for tele-effectiveness and continue to deal with people in important military and governmental offices face to face, whenever possible.
Pelosi has no time for Petraeus, but apparently Bashar al-Assad rates HIGHER than the troops in Iraq in her royal highness’s Middle East jaunt.
I am just glad the make believe “we support the troops” bullshit is finally starting show through.
“The IRAQ AOR commander flies from the other side of the world to tell you what is happening – and you are “too busy†or “have schedule conflicts†and this should be taken seriously? “
They talked. Perhaps they should do it more often. But be careful her questions don’t cross the line into being a commander in chief, of course.
“Why do we have people actually sit in trials, instead of watching by monitor?”
I’ve heard of teleconferences in court.
“If you want to continue to support that – be my guest.”
Just being clear that the outrage is over not going to a group briefing with the guy she already talked with the night before.
“I will rather ignore your prescription for tele-effectiveness and continue to deal with people in important military and governmental offices face to face, whenever possible.”
Do they like repetition too?
Yeah, for bond hearings and the like.
So much for the whole seriousness and respect part, eh?
Sure – why would anyone I am about to lead into battle (or carry out their orders in battle) or commit their name to a policy want to even be in the same room with me…
You must be an inspiring leader, emmadine.
Well, since she didn’t give a shit about the troops to check in when she was in the ME – I am sure he’s not surprised – I am sure the troops aren’t either.
I think the Democrats are just applying their “Don’t ask, don’t tell” to their defeat at all costs program for Iraq, in their flipping the bird to the general.
Oh and to the troops, as usual…
emmadine, takes a LOT of time to respond the MajorJ – as if she/he needs to google before she/he can put a predictable weird snark together – and then sort of tap dances around at an answer but leaves is sufficiently cryptic to cover for the fact he/she has no clue what she/he is talking about.
Anyways, it’s pretty funny.
That is an outstanding success and a top kill. Congratulations to all involved. The upswing in morale will have been immediate and significant.
Major John, I sympathise. By the end we were just clicking pressels to acknowledge orders.
Minimise.
A lesson emmadine and her friends would do well to hoist in.
So this is the same doubletalk that Reid was trying to push the other day about “Petraeus agreeing with me”.
It is apparently impossible for the Democrats to utter a single honest sentence on what they consider the most important issue facing the country.
I thought that under the Bush/Cheney Fascistic Hegemony everything was recorded.
Well…
“In the United States, coal-fired power plants are the biggest source of mercury emissions to the air.”
Using bulbs that are 4-6 times more efficient may reduce mercury emissions.
Silly Bush-hating greenies!
TW: there’s a market12 for everything.
An in-person meeting is more conducive to immediate feedback and opens broader forms of communication. You can’t refer to a map during a teleconference, or draw on a white board, or show a graph. You also lose most of the non-verbal forms of communication.
Then there’s the simple matter of “does she take this seriously”. I’d say no. What was in her schedule that forced her to miss this meeting? Is it more critical than the war?
Yes Lazar it is disappointing that so many greenies prevented the US energy industry from expanding nuclear technology. Instead of modernization, greenies want to put 1 billion mercury-toxic dim bulbs in every lamp in America to save the fish from having to suffer 2 million cars on the roads per year.
Call me a skeptic but I do find it odd to read how mercury-laden dim bulbs ‘may reduce emissions’ when all those dim bulbs are manufactured in China, a country which is building one coal-burning factory per week.
Yes there is a market for everything and a fool born every day. I think I’m going to get in on Algoracle’s ‘carbon offset’ market selling idiots credit for saving the earth from mankind’s brightly lit world.
Just THINKING of the CHILDREN!
Posted by Major John | permalink
on 04/25 at 10:48 PM
Outstanding bitch-slapping, Major.
Remind me never to brief you without knowing what I’m talking about, ‘mkay?
I would love to read a transcript of that conference call Pelosi and Murtha had with Petraeus, assuming it actually happened as stated. But the fact that she could not be bothered to show up for the briefing speaks volumes.
Of course, she had no problem flying all the way to Syria in order to do a Hoover maneuver on her Communist fellow traveler Assad. Even the Washington ComPost called her on that stupid move.
But that’s OK. As long as they succeed in losing this war, that’s all that matters. And if a little later someplace like New York, Washington, Chicago or LA are turned into radioactive smoking holes in the ground, well, that’s OK, too. After all, we’re Americans and we deserve whatever we get…
I was going to take a trip to Vegas. I’ve never been and I’ve heard it’s a good time.
Then I remembered that the state flower of Nevada is the Hairy Reed so I’ve decided not to move any money in that direction.
I’ll say it again. Harry Reid is an empty scrotum. He is a talking empty scrotum. A wrinkly, hairless, talking empty ballsack.
So, emma, why didn’t she teleconference with Assad? Is it possible that she found an advantage to looking that thug straight in the eye and deliver … a message from Israel that the Israeli government says they didn’t give her? Perhaps you should suggest she teleconference with Ahmadinnerjacket rather than screw up her schedule.
Oh, oh! I know! Teleconference the House sessions! Yeah! She could get her one of them big ol’ plasma screen TV’s, high definition.
EMBRACE THE TECHNOLOGY, BITCHES!
“An in-person meeting is more conducive to immediate feedback and opens broader forms of communication. You can’t refer to a map during a teleconference, or draw on a white board, or show a graph. You also lose most of the non-verbal forms of communication.”
You’re right. Now I’m outraged that these don’t happen more often.
“Sure – why would anyone I am about to lead into battle (or carry out their orders in battle) or commit their name to a policy want to even be in the same room with me…”
I don’t htink its petraeus she doesnt want to see or hear from.
“You must be an inspiring leader, emmadine.”
Nah. Don’t care much for leaders.
Because burnishing your anti establishment bonafides requires a faithful and consistant disrespect for all authority, all day, every day, in all kinds of weather (wooo ou oooo)
EMBRACE TEH TEMPO OF DISSENT, BITCHES!
emmadine did take up for Nancy:
emmadine likes Nancy P. + emmadine doesn’t care for leaders = Nancy P. is not a leader.
I concur in spades.
So she’ll fly across the world to be photographed with Assad, but can’t stand to be in the same room with our legally elected president?
Nuance.
Is this a genuine Radchic trend or just a pseudoLibertarian squalling? I mean, I don’t want to re-arrange my budget for pop-politic apparel again, especially after hearing about Crow’s coming line of sleeves-for-napkins.
I mean, that could throw both haute couture and haute cuisine into a tizzy, what with designing dishes that will adequately complement madam’s strapless-with-long-napkin-gloves garden green print gown. Something involving asparagus, burgundy, escargot, and a drippy cheese sauce, perhaps?
I wish Crow had stuck with her silly single-sheet per visit campaign, by the by. Mrs. Geezer was gearing up for a “Cobs For Crow” campaign that would have coupled refining corn for fuel with sending spent corn cobs to Crow for her very personal green needs. She was placing the first order for Cobs for Crow T-shirts when the very large-brained entertainer changed her tune. Mrs. Geezer was so disappointed.
Ah, well. Back to the regularly scheduled thread…
Rob, that merely reveals that Nancy will meet directly only with friends, not enemies.
So we’re back to a fistful of Charmin?
Fistfuls of Charmin.
Just to aggravate anti-tp movements.
What the fuck is a “security emir”? Seems like a strange euphemism for chief IED-maker. Sounds like AQ is stealing the US corporate practice of handing out important-sounding bullshit titles. When they start requiring cover sheets on their TPS reports, the co-option by Crusader Capitalism will be complete.
I like to dip my Quilted Northern in fossil fuels to give it that lotiony feel.
I’ll bet the cartoon commercial bears are disappointed in you guys.
BTW: Does anybody else find those ads faintly …. creepy?
… one psychosis, two psychosis, red psychosis, blue psychosis …
You owe me a new pair of pants, having besoiled myself laughing. Genius!
Why won’t Pelosi, the 3rd in line, attend an executive meeting with General Petraus?
It’s simple really. If Pelosi is photographed attending a meeting where our Military Commanders directly refute the Democrat’s anti-war narrative…
…then, Nancy and her comrades in the house can no longer publicly oppose the management of the war while maintaining her coherent facade of ”plausible deniability.”
It’s all about the COGNITIVE GRADIENT, man. Ignorance IS bliss.
“Emir” is a title of honor in the ME.
Of course, when one is attempting, I think, to denigrate an information source or significance of information, one might use expletives as a poor stylistic mechanism of ridicule. Unfortunately, that style often betrays ignorance.
It’s called the Reid Pathology, in which one dwells in denial of progress for political gain even at the expense of the national interest.
There’s one corporate title that I can guarantee they won’t be co-opting;
Coordinator of Tolerance Training
As far as Crusader Capitalism goes, this reflects the machinations of the Dark Lord Rove, may he always be sugary sweet in his holy cocoaness. Soon all insurgencies will be corrupted by the eeeeeeevil Capitalist power that emanates (emmadines?) from deep within the dusty bowels of the White House Political Operations and Machiavellian Hegemony Strategy Center.
Soon, he will notify us of success and then IT WILL BE TOO LATE FOR ALL WHO OPPOSE US!!!
BWAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh, did I say that out loud? Um … my bad…
Reminds me of IowaHawk’s series of reports by the Z-man…
Indeed it is.
China and Taiwan appear the primary locations for manufacturing both types of bulb.
Oh well, good luck to you.
Those crazy Others with their crazy titles… “Emir.” Heh.
And what’s with those robes…?
It is to laugh at. And dismiss with the wave of my hand.
BEGONE, PROGRESS! YOU ARE ILLUSORY AND INSIGNIFICANT—THE POOR HANDMAIDEN OF HARRY REID’S GRAND CALL TO DEFEAT!
It just struck me that “Crusader Capitalism” is loaded with implication. It sounds like something I may have heard during one of those old Radio Moscow broadcasts on forty meters I used to listen to back in the ‘60s.
It could be hyperbole, but Bolshevik purists always speak with saturated language. It’s so hard to tell if it really is just a joke, because even when it isn’t, it is.
Seeing how most of these Arab/Islamic groups are former Soviet clients, or their ideological decendents, it shouldn’t be too surprising that they employ the same comic book rhetoric.
AP – Murder of Security Emir leaves dozens of 12-13 year old children unemployed.
The untimely death of Security Emir Muhammad Abdullah Abbas al-Issawi caused by Coalition forces has left the future in doubt for many of the areas 12-13 year old children.
—
and then the response:
How the response is an answer to the assertion escapes me.
The point could be that coal-burning plants are necessary for the manufacture of mercury-laden dim bulbs. That isn’t plausible.
The point may be that mercury-laden dim bulbs are made for use in China and Taiwan, who are also building coal-burning plants at a high rate, which is internally contradictory since mercury-laden dim bulbs consume less energy and so will require fewer energy-producing plants. No, this makes no sense.
The point may be that mercury-laden dim bulbs are being made in China and Taiwan because of low costs, which is likely attributable to manipulations of prices by Wal-Mart which can dictate prices to suppliers because of its evil market hegemony. In this case, we are being asked by green advocates to perpetuate economic slavery, and to promote the use of mercury-laden products that may leech their poisons into the environment after they have expended their dim light. This doesn’t make sense to me, either.
It may simply be that manufacturing mercury-laden dim bulbs is too hazardous and produces too many poisons that kill plants, animals, and humans, so it was shipped offshore to factories manned by darker-skinned peoples. This doesn’t make sense to me, either. Contemporary liberals only murder darker-skinned peoples as a by-product of their agenda, never intentionally (the old Stalinistic “Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet” process).
Well, I still can’t see how the response meant anything in the context into which it was placed. I guess it’s just a dim-bulb response, eh?
People usually rearrange their schedules to accommodate that which is important to them.
Ms. Pelosi has told me how much she cares about Iraq. Rob Crawford nailed it.
Harry Reid has an excuse. He says Petraeus would just lie. That is pretty good coming from a Dem who just got slapped down by David Broder. Reid has more positions than the Kama Sutra, and that’s without going back to last month.
Not really. It just seems like a stupid title. Kinda like “drug czar”.
It’s so hard to tell if it really is just a joke,
Major John didn’t have too much difficulty.
….or Majority Leader Harry Reid
Combining these was wrong in many, many ways. The only thing that could possbily be worse would be to mention Waxman and Pelosi, together, and the Kama Sutra.
That mental picture is free of charge!
Egad, the eyes and the ears. In so many positions! Ahrrggggh, the inhumanity….
Blue Hen:
I do believe that your manufactured mental picture constitutes a WMD.
EEUUWWW!
How many holes will I have to drill into my skull…
Don’t make me invite the Congressional delegation from Mass. into that scenario.
Your’re warned.
NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
It’s quite simple, we were discussing relative mercury emissions through the manufacture and use of each type of bulb. Though flourescents contain mercury, they will likely result (see the graph) in lower emissions, since they consume less electricity. Electricity is substantially generated by coal powered plants, and these emit mercury. Syn sort of implied (the first quote) this would be offset by the fact that many flourescent bulbs are manufactured in China, which process uses electricity generated by, guess what type of plant?… But since incandescent bulbs are also manufactured in China (the second quote you cite), incandescents gain no advantage.
You just need to read more carefully and connect the dots…
they will likely result
By carefully reading I deduce that they don’t know and are therefore siding with their predjudices. Just a stab.
No fair Rusty, that bit didn’t count.