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Blogger Bill Roggio Heading To Iraq
By: Matt Rosenberg · Section: War
Via Seattle entrepreneur and blogger Martin Tobias comes a welcome tip. Some people gripe about skewed coverage of the effort to countermand Baathist hardliners and foreign jihadists pining for the Golden Age of Saddam. Meanwhile, other bloggers actually go to Iraq, to report firsthand. The latter group will soon include 35-year-old military veteran and software analyst Bill Roggio, formerly of Easongate fame. Roggio has spearheaded a group blog called The Fourth Rail, and is actually raising $25,000 to fund a trip to Iraq so he can blog the good news direct, in the war against the forces of darkness. Print This Story
Nov 8th, 2005: 12:27:24:
Terrorists' Toys For Tots
al-Qaeda continues to intentionally target children in Iraq
By Bill Roggio
AL ASAD AB, IRAQ: The Thanksgiving Day car bombing in the town of Mahmudiyah encapsulates the nature of terror attacks directed at the Iraq people. Thursdays attack killed thirty and wounded forty. The location was a hospital, and the target was American troops handing out toys and food to children. ABC News voices the reaction of a stricken mother; There was an explosion at the gate of the hospital My children are gone. My brother is gone. Another car bombing in Hillah was directed at an soda stand, and killed eleven and wounded 17.
Outside of Abu Ghraib, Iraqi soldiers discover a car with childrens dolls rigged with various forms of explosives. Iraqi government spokesperson Leith Kubba states This is the same type of doll as that handed out on several occasions by US soldiers to children.
al-Qaedas campaign against the innocent is nothing new. In July, twenty seven children were killed in a suicide attack on American soldiers who were giving candy to Iraqi children. There are numerous instances of al-Qaeda using disabled children those with Downs Syndrome or other mental impairments as suicide bombers or grenade throwers.
Those who advocate a withdrawal from Iraq wholly ignore the nature of the enemy we face, an enemy that has no compunction about slaughtering the innocent to achieve their political goals. Also lost in the debate is the fact that al-Qaeda is taking a real beating in Iraq, particularly in its former Islamic Republics in western Anbar province. Iraqi troops are entering the fight in battalion sized formations, the terror networks are being slowly and systematically dismantled, and leadership turnover due to precision operations is frighteningly high for the organization. The calls for withdrawal only embolden the terrorists to commit more spectacular acts of violence in order to paint a picture of chaos.
But you must be a news junkie to find it in MSM. That is wrong.manu1959 said:this is the same stuff that the north vietnamese army did to the locals that dealt with the US soldiers....remember the stories of all the kids getting shots for polio then the VC show up and cut all their arms off....
