Wednesday, July 02, 2003

Fallujah Mosque Explosion Tied to Bomb-making Class Just as I thought, we are not responsible for the explosion inside the mosque. DefenseLink News by the DOD reports, "A bomb manufacturing class being taught inside the Al Hasan Mosque in Fallujah was apparently the cause of the early July 1 explosion there, according to U.S. Central Command officials." A bomb manufacturing class inside the mosque! Imagine that. I say again, just what kind of religion do these people practice? If one's church, synagogue, mosque, pagoda, etc teaches you how to construct bombs for the purpose of killing people - then I daresay you are partaking of the wrong religion. This is not religion. It's all horseshit! My observation is that the Iraqis know our Rules of Engagement prevent us from striking or otherwise targeting a religious place of worship, so they set up bomb manufacturing and who knows what other kind of classes inside their alleged places of worship. It's all a scam. If I can see through it, our military commanders and government leaders should be able to as well. The other option is that whatever it is the Islamic folk are doing, it is not religious in nature but they use the guise of religion so as to get away with their criminal and murderous schemes. 5:14:24 PM  comment []

Obstacles Arabs Have Erected for Themselves The following points were originally published in the New York Post, the article has been removed from their web site. For all of the oil revenue that has flowed into the wealthier Arab countries, consider the overall state of the Arab world: It does not produce a single manufactured product of sufficient quality to sell on world markets. Arab productivity is the lowest in the world. It contains not a single world-class university. The once-great tradition of Arab science has degenerated into a few research programs in the fields of chemical and biological warfare. No Arab state is a true democracy. No Arab state genuinely respects human rights. No Arab state hosts a responsible media. No Arab society fully respects the rights of women or minorities. No Arab government has ever accepted public responsibility for its own shortcomings. I have to rant. I am sick of tired of their shit. I am. They obviously have a multitude of problems and apparently refuse to accept responsibility for their actions. Their leaders blame my Country and the West for all of their woes. The news articles about the situation in Iraq yesterday were absolutely disgusting. Iraqis going around demanding the death of all Americans in Iraq. Stating that one Iraqi is worth forty Americans. What really gets me is that they talk so much about their God and their religion, damn near everything supposedly offends them. But think about this, people who thrive on death, who love death and talk about killing all the time - then in the same breath they want to preach about how holy they are? Sounds like BS to me. Sort of like taking theology lessons from Charles Manson. Their religion is a cult, not much different from a Satanic Cult - is how it appears to me. God does not order/direct people to kill others. In fact, the taking of a life is a mortal sin. Judging by the news story I linked to just above, these people are wacked out, demented, nuts, crazy. One more thing, why do A-Rabs and Muslims or whatever they call themselves, constantly jabber about "holy wars?" Is it possible for them to declare and engage in an un-holy war? Newsflash: Wars are not holy. They are not sacred and do not come from God. As for the mosque, the U.S. military has denied attacking it. According to the ROE, religious places of worship are off limits. They should entertain the notion that perhaps someone who wanted to cause trouble bombed the mosque knowing that the half wits in Fallujah would blame us. 2:26:43 AM  comment []

Excerpt from Crickets on a Steel Tiger On 17 January 1967 Lieutenant Alva Krogman's O-1 was caught in a crossfire inside the Chokes, the triangular area that separated interdiction points ALPHA, BRAVO, and CHARLIE. He was flying below an overcast in the squadron's O-1, which had been painted black for night tests. Spads 13 and 14, two of NKP's T-28s, broke off a nearby attack and responded to the Mayday call of Nail 48 and rushed to the Chokes.  Captain William Cogdell in Spad 13 dived his T-28 down toward the wreckage of the O-1 to see if he could locate a parachute.  His aircraft was caught by heavy automatic weapons or 37mm fire, and the right wing burst into flame. Captain Cogdell's aircraft did not pull out of the dive and crashed just east of ALPHA. Sandies 7 and 8, two A-1Es that had been on SAR alert at NKP, soon reached the area and confirmed what the FACs already knew: the Chokes were one of the most dangerous areas in Steel Tiger. The O-1 and T-28 had crashed within a few miles of gun positions that had also downed an A-1E and an F-4C within the past three months. The SAR commander quickly called off the rescue effort since it appeared that neither pilot had survived the morning's two crashes. He concluded that it was "impossible for Jolly Greens to work this area and cover aircraft could not survive under existing conditions." The T-28 section of the 606th Air Commando Squadron had started combat missions over the Steel Tiger during the previous week. Captain Cogdell's death was the section's first combat fatality in Laos. The Air Commandos immediately phased the T-28s into a night armed reconnaissance role in which the slow flying craft would be more survivable and more effective than against heavily defended targets in the daytime. Lieutenant Krogman had been a Cricket FAC for less than three weeks and was on his 16th combat mission.  He was the seventh consecutive Cricket FAC lost without rescue near the Trail. © Col. Jimmie H. Butler, USAF (Ret) 12:09:54 AM  comment []