I'm sure all of you have heard about the recent bombings in Baghdad this past week and the dozens of deaths they resulted in. I wanted to discuss what happened and give my opinion on what the ramifications of the bombing might be.
The gist of the story if that 2 female suicide bombers attacked 2 separate animal markets in Baghdad on the morning of February 1. What's to note is that both women were reported to have Down syndrome and were said to be remotely detonated. Despite the fa
ce, along with the recent bombings, show the terrorists losing their foothold. When the war starct that this type of attack is a lowly and despicable course of action by the enemy, it actually sheds some light on the current situation surrounding terrorism in Iraq.
As everyone has heard lately, the situation in Baghdad has been improving vastly over the past few months. Violence has decreased dramatically since the troop surge started. The reduction in violen
ted the majority of suicide bombers were teenagers to adult males. These young adults were mostly idealists, believing their actions were just in the fight for Islam.
Recent violence in Iraq has less to do with these willing young men and more to do with young children or women. This shift in the types of people used in attacks shows less willingness by the population to encourage terrorism in their own towns. This is a drastic shift from where we were a few years ago. The people of Iraq are finally realizing that most of the terrorists are not even from their own country and that by allowing the violence to continue they are only hurting themselves.
Let me know what you guys think about anything you hear about. I'm getting a much different perspective now that I'm here and I'd like to hear some other opinions.
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Meyer!!! Your fellow asshole in training Weinberg is here to comment.
You have to check out this article, seems AQI is changing to a "kinder gentler" terrorist organization.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/07/AR2008020703854_pf.html
Here is the key part:
The new approach was outlined last month in an internal communique that orders members to avoid killing Sunni civilians who have not sympathized with the U.S.-backed tribesmen or the government.
From internal documents and interviews with members of al-Qaeda in Iraq, a picture emerges of an organization in disarray but increasingly aware that its harsh policies--such as punishing women who don't cover their heads--have eroded its popular support. Over the past year, the group has been driven out of many of its strongholds. The group's leadership is now jettisoning some of its past tactics to refocus attacks on American troops, Sunnis cooperating closely with U.S. forces, and Iraq's infrastructure. . . .
"We do not deny the difficulties we are facing right now," said Riyadh al-Ogaidi, a senior leader, or emir, of al-Qaeda in Iraq in the Garma region of eastern Anbar province. "The Americans have not defeated us, but the turnaround of the Sunnis against us had made us lose a lot and suffer very painfully."
Ogaidi said the total number of al-Qaeda in Iraq members across the country has plummeted from about 12,000 in June 2007 to about 3,500 today.
Ogaidi said the total number of foreign fighters in Iraq is "in the tens--not more than 200."
Stay safe out there.
Weinberg
It is late and will write more tomorrow, but am I the only one seeing (or not seeing, rather) chunks of text missing from the post?
RE: Eric
"It is late and will write more tomorrow, but am I the only one seeing (or not seeing, rather) chunks of text missing from the post?"
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Yeah I'm seeing chunks missing as well. Has the original post been redacted? If it has, I understand, but could you put in asterisks to note this in the future?
Glad to hear you're still okay Justin!
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