Want to join a night raid on Hizbollah?

Ground combat is not my area of expertise - but it is always interesting to watch a leader in action. I can't find a way to save the video, but I have the links here.

Not something you see every day - but one question I have - is it normal to use a bullhorn?

Tragic News

A milblogger and his family could use our prayers and support right now.

Thanks to AWTM for alerting me.

re re: convert or die

Apparently NATO doesn't have an accurate "kill count." That, according to the Taliban.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan The top Taliban military commander on Monday said that NATO's claims to have killed more than 200 insurgents over the weekend were propaganda and warned that his men would target journalists who reported "wrong information" given by the U.S.-led coalition or NATO.

"They are saying that they have killed 200 Taliban but they did not kill even 10 Taliban," said Mullah Dadullah, Taliban military commander for south and southeastern Afghanistan. "They are just destroying civilian homes and agricultural land. They are using the media to do propaganda against the Taliban."...

The journalists just can't win. We're fed up with them, so too are the bad guys.

"From today, I want to tell journalists that if in future they use wrong information from coalition forces or NATO we will target those journalists and media," Dadullah said. "We have the Islamic right to kill these journalists and media."

An "Islamic right to kill these journalists and media." Nice....

Choose a Headline

NY Times - Troops Cut Death, but Not Fear, in Baghdad Zone

IHT(owned by NY Times) - In one Iraqi neighborhood, security returns

After 126 bodies surfaced in Dora in July, only 18 turned up in August, according to U.S. military figures. Murders, most often Sunni against Shiite or vice versa in this mixed neighborhood, dropped as well. Fourteen murders were reported last month, down from 73 in July. But in a country long on disappointment and short on hope, Dora represents only the embryo of progress

al qaeda's "sympathetic" journalist

It must have been a tough decision for Al Qaeda. Which American journalist should we mention in our new videotape? In the end, Sy Hersh got the mention. A couple of Brits were praised too.

“Azzam” names “sympathetic” personalities for whom he has messages for action; He asks journalist Seymour Hirsh to “reveal more” than what was published in a New Yorker article on the War: Obviously an open call by al Qaeda to M Hirsch to resume the attack against the US War on Terror. Then “Azzam” turn to two British journalists and thank them for their “admiration and respect for Islam” encourage them to do the final step: Convert. He names British MP George Galloway and journalist Robert Fisk. But more troubling in Gadahn’s tape was his direct call to Jihadists within the US Armed forces to work patiently till the time comes and they should continue to aggregate while escaping the surveillance of their military authorities. This theme, which I covered briefly in Future Jihad, is of great concern to US national security. The “Azzam” speech brings further concerns as to the credibility of this threat.

I wonder if praise from al Qaeda is a badge of courage, or a shield of shame?