Not too different from summer camp in Tennessee, really.
Abu Muqawama has given the U.S. military holy hell for not focusing on the brutality of terror groups as part of an intelligent IO campaign, but yesterday the U.S. struck back in the information war by releasing a video showing kids being trained by al-Qaeda to fight in Iraq. This video is the kind of thing that's going to make parents from Morocco to the Gulf squirm.
Abu Muqawama's favorite part is when the fat ass grown-up tries to show the kids how you kick down a door.
Here's a question that only Abu Muqawama would ask: Why do all these kids wear Real Madrid away kits? Is it just because the shirts are black? Or does this just mean that Barcelona -- just like during the Franco years -- is the team of freedom?
Update: Marc Lynch wonders if this isn't a manufactured IO product. Good question, but honestly: would you give the U.S. and its allies that much credit? Me neither.
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Abu- this breaks my heart. Reminds me of scenes from Blood Diamond - the movie - and I think of the words of Jesus who warned about what one should do with people who destroy the hearts and souls of 'little ones'....like putting concrete weights around their necks to drown them.
ugh war is HELL
Reminds me of the use of drummer boys in the War Between the States. Or the use of Hitler Jugend on the Russian Front. Or the boys used to fill in the manpower shortage in the NLF during the VietNam War. Or the boys of the Basij that were sent by Iran to fill out the human waves against Sadaam.
My cousin was 16 years old when he volunteered for the USMC in 1966. He served two tours in VietNam.
Regarding the training video, Marc Lynch offers the following:
"The video has not been distributed on the web or sent to al-Jazeera, but instead sent to.. al-Arabiya." Which heavily suggests an information operation, if not made by US then by Saudi intelligence.
mark pyruz: Ties remarkably well in with the "mentaly challenged" female suicide bombers...
it does, doesn't it?
fnord,
Are you implying the reports that the female bombers had Down's Syndrome are false?
By the way the video is no longer avialable...
hiya, buck. (From intel-dump?)
I do not state anything, just point out that during the last 7 years of US press-plants, or "creative public relation" there is a certain, how to put it, "feel". The stories that are fixed have a certain stupid edge to them, its much the same as when you know someone is lying just by seeing them speak. Not very scientific, I admit.
"Mission Accomplished". ;-)
Every conspiracy theory is apparently more attractive than...the truth.
Until you have proof it's not a ham sandwich, it's a ham sandwich. Especially when the perps jump up and down yelling "we did it".
A.M is right. We wouldn't have the b@**s or the brains.
This looks like Bull, not even a training video. The people they are attacking don't seem truly scared, there are no screams of terror. Plus, in the second raid in the house the video camera is in the house they are raiding before the screaming armed preteens
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