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 Greetings! You are reading an article from The Mudville Gazette. To reach the front page, with all the latest news and views, click the logo above or "main" below. Thanks for stopping by! June 8, 2006 Zarqawi DeadBy GreyhawkMULTI-NATIONAL FORCE - IRAQ"Terminated" Statement from Iraq's Prime Minister: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said al-Zarqawi was killed along with seven aides Wednesday evening in a house 30 miles northeast of Baghdad in the volatile province of Diyala.Iraq the Model Al-Maliki explained that Zarqawi (and 7 of his aides) was killed in an air raid in the little town of Hibhib 8 km north of Baquba after receiving tips from residents in the area.One of the clues that helped locate him was probably the boxes of severed heads discovered in Baquba this week. Small wonder the locals turned him in - but the fact that they did so reveals much about Iraq, where such events are happening more frequently as Iraqi troops "take the lead" and terrorists resort to increasingly heinous actions in response. Milbloggers in Iraq: The Will to Exist: "a monster departs the realm of the living." Those Wacky Iraqis: This jackass is a child murderer, a torturer, a heinous villain who deserved nothing less. 4 Mile Creek: "Not the end, but a damn good thing nonetheless." Expect lots of news, discussion and updates at MilBlogs through the day. Posted by Greyhawk / June 8, 2006 9:02 AM | Permalink 9 TrackBacksBAGHDAD, June 8 -- Abu Musab Zarqawi, leader of one of the most entrenched insurgent operations in Iraq, has been killed, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced Thursday. Maliki, flanked by U.S. Gen. George Casey, who commands U.S. troops in Iraq,... Read More Quoting Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette: Welcome to hell, bitch.. Read More This is great news of course, but the job isn't done in Iraq. The insurgency needs to be squashed. Anyone want to start taking predictions as to how long before a Democrat is heard whining that Zarqawi's death was timed for political effect? I thi... Read More Wow. To all our G.I.'s .... job well done. Spectacular. Thank You Mr. President. G*d Bless America. Read More Coalition forces kill Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi! Read More I got the phone call a little after 6AM local. Zarqawi was dead. It was good news. Only Osama deserved to die as much as this guy. The video of the airstrike that got him can be viewed here. You would think the dancing in the streets of Baghdad a .... Read More Heres how Im reading this. Zarqawi was awakened this morning by the demons of hell ...... He was delivered to the demons of hell by the United States of America Armed Forces. HOOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read More *****SCROLL FOR UPDATES***** As you most probably know, I'm staying with some family until I move back to my home state of Vermont next week, and am not posting much until I've settled in to my own place after my... Read More U.S. Warplanes dropped two 500-pound bombs on innocent villagers in a quiet city in Diyala Province. Close friends and family gathered for a meeting to discuss local matters over tea when they were indiscriminately killed. Among the dead were a spiri... Read More 21 Comments |
November 26, 2010America@war [Greyhawk]
I think anyone who's ever pondered the "comment" option - once only available on blogs and bulletin boards, now ubiquitous on almost any web site - will appreciate this:
The so-called faculty of writing is not so much a faculty of writing as it is a faculty of thinking. When a man says, "I have an idea but I can't express it"; that man hasn't an idea but merely a vague feeling. If a man has a feeling of that kind, and will sit down for a half an hour and persistently try to put into writing what he feels, the probabilities are at least 90 percent that he will either be able to record it, or else realize that he has no idea at all. In either case, he will do himself a benefit. That's wisdom from the past, captured for posterity at the US Naval Institute, shared via the web on the institute's 137th anniversary. From their about page:
"The Naval Institute has three core activities," among them, History and Preservation: The Naval Institute also has recently introduced Americans at War, a living history of Americans at war in their own words and from their own experiences. These 90-second vignettes convey powerful stories of inspiration, pride, and patriotism. Take a look at the collection, and you'll see it's not limited to accounts from those who served on ships at sea, members of the other branches are well-represented. I'm fortunate to have met USNI's Mary Ripley, she's responsible for the institute's oral history program (and she's the daughter of the late John Ripley, whose story is told here). She also deserves much credit for their blog. ("We're not the Navy nor any government agency. Blog and comment freely.") We met at a milblog conference - Mary knew (and I would come to realize) that milbloggers are the 21st-century version of exactly what the US Naval Institute is all about. Once that light bulb came on in my head, I mentioned a vague idea for a project to her - milblogs as the 21st century oral history that they are. "Put that in writing," she said (of course - see first paragraph above!) - and here's part of the result. Shortly after the first tent was pitched by the American military in Iraq a wire was connected to a computer therein, and the internet was available to a generation of Americans at war - many of whom had grown up online. From that point on, at any given moment, somewhere in Iraq a Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine was at a keyboard sharing the events of his or her day with the folks back home. While most would simply fire off an email, others took advantage of the (then) relatively new online blogging platforms to post their thoughts and experiences for the entire world to see. The milblog was born - and from that moment to this stories detailing everything from the most mundane aspects of camp life to intense combat action (often described within hours of the event) have been available on the web... And et cetera - but since you're reading this on a milblog, you probably knew that. And you know that milblogs aren't just blogs written by troops at war, that many friends, family members, and supporters likewise documented their story of America at war online in near-real time, as those stories developed. The diversity in membership of that group is broad, the one thing we all have in common is the impulse to make sense of the seemingly senseless, and communicate the tale - for each of us that impulse was strong enough to overcome whatever barriers prevent the vast majority of people from doing the same. Everyone at some point has some vague idea they believe should be shared - we were the people who, from some combination of internal and external urging, found and spent those many half hours persistently trying to write it down. But where will all that be in another 137 years? Or five or ten, for that matter. That's something I've asked myself since at least 2004 - when I wrote this:
Membership in the ghost battalion has grown in the years since, and an ever growing majority of those abandoned-but-still-standing sites are vanishing. Have you checked out Lt Smash's site lately? How about Sgt Hook's? If you're a long-time milblog reader you know the first widely-read milblog from Operation Iraq Freedom and the first widely-read milblog from Afghanistan are both gone from the web. If you're a relative newcomer to this world you may never even have heard of them - or the dozens upon dozens of others who carried forth the standard they set down. If you have a vague notion that something should be done about that, (a notion I've heard expressed more than once...) then you and I and the good folks at the US Naval Institute are in agreement. Preserving the history documented by the milbloggers is just one of the goals of the milblog project, the once-vague idea that we're now making real. And it's a big idea, if I say so myself - too big to explain in one simple blog post, so stand by for more. Likewise, it's too big a task to be accomplished by just one person. So if you're a milblogger (and exactly what is a milblogger? is a topic for much further discussion on its own) I'm asking for your help. All I'll really need is just a little bit (maybe just one or two of those half hours...) of your time, and your willingness to tell the tale. We've already made history, it's time to save it. (More to follow...) Posted 4:02 PM | Permalink |
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The headline says it all, I could not have put it better than that.
"Zarqawi victim's brother: "may he rot in hell"
The brother of Ken Bigley, the engineer beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group, said the militant leader should rot in hell.
"The man was an animal and he deserved what he got. And may he rot in hell," Paul Bigley told Channel Four television."
What WONDERFUL news to wake up to today!!! Great job Coalition Forces and kudos to the Iraqis who turned the bastard in!
This is a day for all Americans to be proud of their military!!!
Hands down, the best headline..love it!
Think those bastards would be pissed if we danced in the streets like they did after 9-11?
May he rot chained to Bubba "The Butt Fiend Axe Murderer" in hell.
My husband called to tell me! I am overjoyed at this news!
Other great news today...
The USS Cole is heading to the Mid East today after 6 years.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/9339591/detail.html?rss=dc&psp=news
The news just gets better and better.
Two of his top spies, females both, were killed. His spiritual leader and the sheik behind his support (a Wahhabi) was the tag and the rabbit that drew us to Zman, and that idiot is also dead. He was given up through the sheik by an Iraqi confederate who was tired of what was going on. After BDA (battle damage assessment) and intel exploitation of this and previous intel, 17 raids were accomplished in Baghdad which nabbed a "treasure trove" of further intel. The Jordanian intelligence service supported this strike. Oh yeah, we also already know the name and some background on who the next likely AQ in Mesopotamia head will be and if it was announced on international news that you were the next target, wouldn't your ass begin to suck some leather out of your LaZBoy recliner as you reach for the remote to hear what the US says about your numbnuts being next in the laser sight? And lastly, al Qaeda puts out a press release saying "rejoice in the martyrdom of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi". Can we have the next release over the ritual sepuku and immolation of bin Hidin and old Knothead Zawahiri in sympathy to this twit as well? Or is that asking too much?
I love seeing the number of lines elsewhere dedicated to celebration and comparing them to the number throwing cold water on this announcement. You really know who your friends are, and who your enemies are by who celebrates what when an enemy is killed.
Subsunk
PS, Go ahead and speak up Willy. We all know you'll have something profound and important to say.
Look for a couple of really warm days. There was enough of the slime balls sent to the fires of hell to warm the earth's tempature. Put a pig penis up his butt and pig nuts in his mouth and send him on the way.
Can you just imagine....now he's going to be given 70 Virgins!!!! And he finds out that he was given 70 Rosie O'Donnell's !!!!! Talk about pure hell for all eternity !!!
Okay, the titular head of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed. Beyond the hoo-rah, what does it actually mean given the reports that 90%+ of the insurgency comes from within the country, unconnected to al-Qaeda? Two hours after the U.S. announced the killing, another 30 Iraqis were killed in insurgent kidnappings and bombings.
Or are we just supposed to ignore that, like we're supposed to ignore the fact that marines murdered civilians in Haidtha and elsewhere in Iraq?
Thanks for commenting Willy. You renew my faith in the possibility of perpetual motion. Surely anything as stupid as you that can keep on ticking has to mean there truly is a way to harness all that gas and hot air out there to power the world for the next dozen or so centuries. Now all we need is the technology to do so, just like all good environmentalists say.
Drive on Willy, right off the cliff.
Subsunk
Riddle me this, Batman: What benefit do you predict will be derived from killing the guy, and when?
Well at least it makes you look stupid, now doesn't it?
I'd say that's a benefit and it only took a few hours.
Subsunk
How does the U.S. killing Zarqawi make me "look stupid?" I'm geninely curious as to why you think so. Or was that just the best throwaway line you could come up with?
I'd venture a guess that because it makes you cheer for the terrorists every time something bad happens to Americans, lament success every time Americans win a small victory and that it shows you as the terrorist mouthpiece and idiotic buffoon that you truly are.
And I do have other throwaway lines, but you DO severely tax me in coming up with them. Perhaps it is just because my Mom raised me to be polite and I have to throw away everything she taught me everytime you sit down at your keyboard and write something stupid again?
But I shall endeavor to keep coming up with them as long as you keep making a fool of yourself here. (Nobody's listening to you, ya know)
Subsunk
Nut-scratching, old, drunk, toothless and ugly retired fool, but a helluva lot better citizen than Willy.
Nut-scratching, old, drunk, toothless and ugly retired fool
All this and toothless too?
Holy Polident, Batman, it's a toothless old fool!
Yes, Robin, they exist. He must live in a remote corner of South Dakota, where there is no fluoride in the water.
You know, Subsunk,
Just a 'suggestion': *g*
You really should resist the urge to feed the poor guy every insult he comes back at you with. By now it's blatantly obvious that he has no original thought processes with which to access his OWN material, and I bet you derrive much wicked enjoyment from seeing which one of your misleading descriptives he will cherrypick to hit you with next (he seems to have discovered your oh, so cleverly hidden 'toothless' this time, which you cloaked in the guise of the word 'toothless' - he probably had to search a long time before he saw that golden possibility just lying there, ready to bite him, so to speak. ;-)
It's not nice. Funny as heck - yes. But, not nice. How do you expect him to learn anything on his own if you insist on helping him this way???
LOL
he probably had to search a long time before he saw that golden possibility just lying there, ready to bite him
More like gum me, Beth. Do you also wear dentures?
Tsk, tsk, tsk....
Someone much, much smarter than both you and I combined had the right answer to that one:
"you'll never know, will you?"
Thank God for small favors.
"Thank God for small favors."
Posted by WW at June 9, 2006 06:57 PM
Willy, I thought we were talking about my small threat, not yours. So how do you ever find your dick without a microscope and a pair of tweezers?
Subsunk