Al-Qaida plants flag, burns bodies in Iraq attack

I am so glad to see that Iraq has stablized at last! Wait a minute...

Well if Pakistan has not stabilized after all these years why do people expect Iraq to?

Vice President Joe Biden predicted there would not be an extreme outbreak of sectarian violence in Iraq as all but 50,000 U.S. forces leave the country at the end of August.

What you can expect is more violence and a government overthrow during the next couple of years. Iraqi should organize a massive class action against the previous US administration.

I wonder what Al-Qaida members say when they recite their pledge of allegiance... ".. one nation, under Allah, with suicide bombs followed by 72 virgins for all.."?

None of this matters. Why?

JT readers constantly assure us that bin Laden has been dead since 2001 and al-Qaida does not exist, ergo they cannot have a flag. It's all in the imagination.

Incidentally, can anyone draw or even recall al-Qaida's flag off-hand, without Googling it? :8)

"Iraqi(s) should organize a massive class action against the previous US administration"

Why? The previous U.S. administration is the one that liberated Iraq. The current administration is the one that you are so sure is going to have more violence and an overthrow of the elected government happen on its watch.

I hear the al-Qaida flag has already been taken down.

Flags taken down can be hoisted again. I recall reading a piece by a Japanese survivor of Iwo Jima that after the Marines raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi the peak was unguarded and Japanese returned two more times and raise their own flag. There's something iconic about all of this, but it's a bit silly if you really think about it in 21st century terms, where massed troops waving their colours just make easier targets for drones or B52s.

Sarge said: Why? The previous U.S. administration is the one that liberated Iraq.

Are you sure it wasn't Al-Quaida that "liberated" Iraq? Try reading the headline at least before going off on your chest pounding Sarge, dang.

Al-Qaida has a flag? When did this happen?

Do they have T-shirts like Sea Shepherd as well?

On Thursday al-Qaida also bombed Al-Arabiya! (Providing much free advertisement.)

Never heard of Al-Arabiya before, but you just got my attention folks. Now I will definitely check them out.

(Al-Jazeera has been one of my daily visits for several years now, not the English magazine @.com, but the English news pages = aljazeera.net)...

Not in the article above or even printed in JT anywhere yet, is the attack on the Japanese supertanker in the Straits of Hormuz on Wednesday. No-one can figure out how it received so much damage and there are different theories going around, but I am betting that it was another suicide boat like with the USS Cole. Just didn't quite get close enough. In fact I will lay money on it. al-Qaida also hit a French tanker around there not too long ago I seem to remember. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/2010729151751119208.html

Invasions of Iraq and Afghanstan = kicking the hornets nest. Great job!

Is this the same Al Queda that Arabs are supposedly flocking to because of US injustices?

when It is with Islamic militants , loosing is conformed.

The same Al Queda that appeared around 2003.....

Right. The same Al Queda who some claimed had their recruitment exponentially increased by the invasion of Iraq. I guess they just couldn't wait to get over there and start killing Iraqis. Wait...that doesn't make any sense. Hmmm....give me a minute here. Let me mix some words around and get back to you. I'm sure I can find a way to have this make sense.

"kicking the hornets(') nest"

And killing and capturing a bunch of 'em, including some who would torture and kill MistWizard without hesitation or remorse. Great job!

When will the rest of the world wise up and realize there is no dealing with these people; they've been killing each other for thousands of years over a belief system that is no less silly than Zeus turning himself into a bull or people handling snakes.

Massive nuclear strikes; turn the sands of the ME into glass. Make one giant skateboard park out of it; Tony Hawk as president/manager. With prime development of beach front property of course.

Silly of course, but no less silly than the reality. It will never end; we will never 'win'; there will never be peace in that part of the world. Find an energy alternative, get out and leave them to it.

@Sarge:#

Why? The previous U.S. administration is the one that liberated Iraq. The current administration is the one that you are so sure is going to have more violence and an overthrow of the elected government happen on its watch. #

Sarge at 02:59 PM JST - 30th July

Are you phocking kidding me? The US liberated Iraq? The Bush administration liberated Iraq? I want to smoke what you're getting high off from. Well, actually not really, I think it's turning your brain into mush.

And killing and capturing a bunch of 'em, including some who would torture and kill MistWizard without hesitation or remorse. Great job!

Really, and how many of these people lived in Iraq before the invasion? How many Iraqis were involved in 9/11 or any other terrorist attack pre-invasion? How many Iraqis before the invasion were involved in the torture of westerners like MistWizard?

"The same Al Queda who some claimed had their recruitment exponentially increased by the invasion of Iraq."

Possibly. I always said that too, I hope I'm not siding with the enemy.

"I guess they just couldn't wait to get over there and start killing Iraqis. Wait...that doesn't make any sense."

It makes perfect sense. The collapse of Iraq after the destruction of it's infrastructure by "shock and awe" coupled with calamitous first steps of the occupiers created a perfect vaccuum for the nutters secular Saddam previously barred access (in between the incabator babies in the rape-rooms)

"Let me mix some words around and get back to you. I'm sure I can find a way to have this make sense."

Just be honest.

" How many Iraqis were involved in 9/11 or any other terrorist attack pre-invasion? How many Iraqis before the invasion were involved in the torture of westerners"

More to the point, how many angry young men will be drawn to the cause left in an un-stable post-war world and more than likely having seen close one's die horribly?

Former UK & US military commanders have admitted to the BBC that "Al-Qaeda" is a CIA/MI5/Mossad construct, used to do what governments daren't do in public. The former President of the Italian Republic, Fracesco Cossiga, is on parliamentary and media record as confirming their claims. Why are we still chasing an non-existent organization led, supposedly, by a White House admitted dead guy, almost ten years later? If these attacks were directed against Sunnis and done by Al Qaeda, this would make no sense at all. OBL and his followers lean towards Wahabi Islam, and it is Al Sadr and his Shias who would stand to gain, not the cave-dwelling-goat-herders in Tora Bora, who win or lose nothing by this kind of bloodletting.

And none of this has anything to do with Islam, of any stripe. This is politics, as un-pure and bloodly as it gets.

"And none of this has anything to do with Islam, of any stripe."

Your conspiracy theory imploded at that point...

It makes perfect sense. The collapse of Iraq after the destruction of it's infrastructure by "shock and awe" coupled with calamitous first steps of the occupiers created a perfect vaccuum for the nutters secular Saddam previously barred access (in between the incabator babies in the rape-rooms)

But I thought people were joining Al Queda to fight American injustices placed upon Arabs.....how does it that make sense when they go and kill Iraqis?

At least we still have Libertas to kick around. :)

"how does it that make sense when they go and kill Iraqis?"

Heh, you expect it to make sense?

There's the anomaly buddy....

"And none of this has anything to do with Islam, of any stripe."

Your conspiracy theory imploded at that point...

Well you might want to look here then:

http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=23053

Sabi presents conclusive proof once again!!

SuperLib said: But I thought people were joining Al Queda to fight American injustices placed upon Arabs.....how does it that make sense when they go and kill Iraqis?

See your posts in the blowback thread. Yes, I am aware its about Afghanistan, but same principle. And don't take my explanation as support.

imomofo: "Are you phocking kidding me? The US liberated Iraq?"

That awful dictator Saddam Hussein, who ruled Iraq with an iron fist for 25 years, was kicked out of power by the U.S. with a little help from Britain and a few other countries ( the coalition of the willing ), and then executed by the Iraqis themselves. Didn't you know that?

Ahh....the tender innocence of a child's view of the conflict.

"Ahh...the tender innocence of a child's view of the conflict"

Ahh... a refusal to acknowledge facts.

What does US did to AL QUIDA in Iraq for more than 10 years, Creating Thousands of deaths in both sides and civilians..