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To: Keith Feral who wrote (151310)11/8/2004 10:23:08 PM
From: jttmab  Respond to of 281500
 
What about an example of domestic terrorism against their own police force? Do you consider militants dragging 15 Iraqi policemen out of the station and executing them an act of terrorism? Try not to drag the US into this situation.

guardian.co.uk

...He described how locals from Falluja and other places started to organise themselves into small cells and to attack the Americans.

"We just wanted them to leave our cities. In the beginning I had a 'job' every month, setting IEDs [improvised explosive devices] or firing mortars, and would go back to my work most of the time. But then I realised I can't do any thing but jihad as long as the Americans occupied my country."

He closed his workshop, sold his business and used the money to sponsor the group of fighters.

"The world is convinced that we people of Falluja are happy to kill the innocents, that's not true, even when we execute collaborators and people working for the Americans, I feel sad for them and sometimes cry, but this is a war." ...



To: Keith Feral who wrote (151310)11/8/2004 10:45:39 PM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
The point is simply this: everything that is happening in Iraq today is as a result of an illegal, and ill-conceived, invasion of Iraq plan, foisted by Bush on America and the world for no-good-reason.