WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2007-02-26 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Now did you know that the Russians love GAS! The Russians have developed gases for all types of war needs! We haven’t seen gas used in war since WWI. The war is getting wild… and as the Americans and British withdraw I think the violence will spiral to new and unbelievable levels. They sense victory… Osama Bin Laden did say, “America is a Paper Tiger” – and they’re proving it. America just cannot stomach the ugly kind of fighting the Third World people engage in. No rules of war… ugly hideous stuff.
Yummy… I want in, I want in… I hope some of us in Africa get a chance to fight some of these bastards one day… and sock it to them on their level… right down on their level… and send them screaming in terror themselves. Jan]
As a joint operation by United States and Iraqi troops to win control of Baghdad made more progress on Thursday, their insurgent foes were fighting back with deadly new tactics, including poison-gas attacks.
Iraqi medics were treating dozens of patients poisoned by chlorine after militants targeted civilian areas with trucks rigged up as ‘dirty bombs’, said Qais Abdulwahab, director of the Kadhimiya Hospital.
Meanwhile, American commanders are investigating the loss of the latest in a series of helicopters after a US army Blackhawk came down on Wednesday in fields north of the capital after coming under fire from the ground.
“Operation Fardh al-Qanoon” [Imposing Order] has scored some successes. Murders are down in Baghdad and more than 90 000 US and Iraqi troops have met only token resistance as they fan out through flashpoint districts.
Three suspected al-Qaeda insurgents were killed north of Baghdad in clashes on Thursday and overnight raids in the city netted five “rogue” members of the Shi’ite Mahdi Army militia suspected of kidnapping and murder.
But daily bomb attacks on civilians continue, and the use of chlorine and anti-aircraft tactics has underlined what US commanders say is the insurgents’ main strength — an ability to rapidly adapt their strategy.
“One of the things we see as we deal with this is that, as one technique works in one part of the country, we tend to see copycat attacks in other parts of the country,” said US spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Chris Garver.
On Tuesday, a truck carrying chlorine gas exploded in Taji, just north of Baghdad, killing six people on the spot but also poisoning scores more as the toxic gas spread through the area, overcoming women and children.
On Wednesday, the dirty bombers struck again, in the suburbs of Baghdad, in a less successful attack that nevertheless spread panic.
“The material used is poisonous,” said Abdulwahab. “During the explosion it changes into a mist that spreads through the air, causing poisoning in the breathing system, breathing difficulties and acute coughing.
“It’s the first time we have seen such poisoning cases,” he told Agence France-Presse, comparing the injuries to the internal burns suffered by children who drink chlorine-based cleaning products.
Kadhimiya Hospital treated 90 patients poisoned in Tuesday’s attack — seven of whom died — and 21 more on Wednesday, Abdulwahab said.
The Martyr Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim Hospital in Shula treated 66 cases after the Taji blast, and all survived, said medical official Abu Murtadha.
“They’ve adapted the car-bomb tactic,” Garver said. “It shows some of the maliciousness with which they are adapting those tactics.”
Confidence in the Iraqi forces carrying out the security plan has been rocked by a pair of rape allegations by Sunni women against Shi’ite police and troops, which has been given unprecedented publicity in the Arab media.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has furiously denied the first allegation to surface, branding a 20-year-old woman who alleged she was gang-raped by Baghdad police a liar and a criminal, but on Thursday another case came to light.
Four Iraqi soldiers have been charged with raping a woman, said the mayor of Tal Afar in northern Iraq, Brigadier General Najim Abdullah al-Juburi.
He said he received a complaint from a local woman, a mother of 11 children in her forties, “a few days ago” and after a brief investigation had referred the troops to the judiciary for prosecution.
Meanwhile, US commanders are examining the threat to their helicopters, eight of which — two operated by a private security outfit — have been lost since January 20, most of them shot down by insurgents.
The latest was a Blackhawk transport that made a “hard landing” north of Baghdad late on Wednesday. The nine personnel on board survived, but the incident underlined the choppers’ apparently increasing vulnerability.
“Initial indications appear that it was brought down by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades,” Garver said.
The Blackhawk was the third of the helicopters hit in a region north of Baghdad. Insurgents linked to al-Qaeda claim in internet messages to have deployed “new tactics and weapons” in the area.
“We are engaged with a thinking enemy,” warned US Major General James Simmons, who oversees helicopter operations in Iraq, last week.
The US has decided to boost its troop levels in Iraq by 21 500 by the end of May, but on Wednesday coalition ally Britain announced that it would scale back its forces and Denmark and Lithuania said they were pulling out.
Nevertheless, the British Defence Ministry confirmed that Prince Harry will deploy to Iraq with his cavalry regiment, the Blues and Royals, in May.
Basra’s governor, Mohammed al-Waeli, said two Iraqi army brigades would be deployed to the port city by July to replace the leaving British forces. — AFP
Source: Daily Mail & Guardian
URL: http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/br…/p>