One of Ours

Many U.S. women soldiers in Iraq are leaving the frontline and returning home, but the Pentagon does not want to reveal their numbers as the "embarrassing" statistic includes unwed mothers...

"U.S. Central Command is not tracking the number of troops who must leave the Iraq war theatre due to pregnancy, prompting military advocates to charge that the Pentagon wants to keep secret what could be an embarrassing statistic,"...

...One military police unit reported losing three women for that reason.

Lynndie England, the 21-year-old photographed holding a leash attached to a naked Iraqi prisoner, became pregnant during an affair with another soldier at the Abu Ghraib prison compound in Iraq...

...In May 2003, the Marine Corps was forced to bring a Marine back home after she gave birth on a Navy warship in the Persian Gulf. She told superiors that she did not know she was pregnant.

During the 1991 Persian Gulf war, the press branded the destroyer tender USS Acadia the “Love Boat” after 36 sailors — 10 percent of the women aboard — became pregnant while deployed in support of Operation Desert Storm.

For months, Senator John Kerry has been among the loudest in the chorus criticizing President Bush for not persuading our allies to shoulder more of the Iraq burden. But now it is time for Mr. Kerry to start admonishing the allies. The problem today is not the administration’s reluctance to woo allies, but rather the allies’ reluctance to be wooed.

In the past few weeks, Mr. Bush has, with the help of the United Nations, identified Iraqi leadership that appears to have sufficient domestic and international legitimacy to assume sovereignty after June 30. The next phase of the transfer of power has won unanimous endorsement from the Security Council. The Group of 8 summit meeting last week, however, showed that our on-again allies were reluctant to move beyond lip service to much real aid, either in the form of troops or Iraqi debt relief.

For instance, Senator Kerry says NATO should assume a greater role in Iraq. This prospect is blocked by a stubborn president, but not the one named in Mr. Kerry’s critique. Rather it is President Jacques Chirac of France who rejects a NATO role.

Mr. Kerry also said that the allies would find it difficult to contribute without greater cover from the United Nations. We now have it. Why can’t Mr. Kerry find it in his heart to express a modicum of disappointment with, say, the Germans, who for months have vowed not to provide troops even with United Nations endorsement, even if NATO authorizes them to do so?...

The Financial Times had an interesting report in Monday's paper about some drug seizures by the U.S. government in the Arabian Sea which have turned up links to parts of the Al Qaeda terror network. 10 of the 33 persons arrested in the past three weeks of seizures have ties to Al Qaeda...

...After the US-led war in Afghanistan overthrew the Taliban regime in late 2001, al-Qaeda was forced to scatter. The freezing of about $130m of alleged terrorist funds worldwide, and action to stop charities channelling donations to the terrorists, have forced activists to find their own incomes.

The great success of the war on terror has been in hindering al-Qaeda's access to these funds. By using the proceeds of crime, al-Qaeda can circumvent many of the formal financial measures now ranged against it...

Analysis: One of Al Qaeda's key strengths as a terror network is its ability to move men, money and materiel around the world. That strength derives, in part, from Al Qaeda's wealth and financial networks, described well in Peter Bergen's book Holy War, Inc., and more recently by Douglas Farah in Blood From Stones. These networks originated with the wealth and business connections of Osama Bin Laden in the 1990s. But since then, Al Qaeda has diversified its financial networks and sources of money, developing charities and other means of procuring, moving and using money. Law enforcement experts have long predicted a convergence between Al Qaeda and the global drug trade, because of their common synergies with respect to evading law enforcement and moving stuff around the world. Thus far, it has been thought that Al Qaeda would disdain such endeavors because of its religious doctrine; that is, that its Islamist beliefs would preclude it from dabbling in the illicit drug trade. It is becoming increasingly clear that Al Qaeda has no such compunctions about using the drug trade to raise money for its terror operations, or for the purpose of masking its logistical efforts around the world.

Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr today ordered members of his militia to leave the holy cities of Nafaj and Kufa in Iraq unless they live there.

Today’s order fulfilled a key aspect of an agreement meant to end fighting between his militia forces and US troops.

Al-Sadr called on fighters who had come here from other parts of Iraq to help fight the US to return home “to carry on their duties as God wants,” a statement from his office said.

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Although al-Sadr’s forces are still fighting US troops periodically in Baghdad’s Sadr City district, the Americans forced the militia to abandon another Shiite city, Karbala and to accept a truce this month in Najaf and Kufa.

Iran reportedly is readying troops to move into Iraq if U.S. troops pull out, leaving a security vacuum.

The Saudi daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat...reports Iran has recently moved four battalions to the border.

Al-Sharq al-Awsat quoted "reliable Iraqi sources" as saying, "Iran moved part of its regular military forces towards the Iraqi border in the southern sector at a time its military intelligence agents were operating inside Iraqi territory."...

Coalition between Saddam's General, IP & Falluja Terrorists

In a news report distributed by Iraqi demonstrators in Baghdad, the IP in Falluja with the Wahabi terrorists captured and killed 6 Shia Iraqi youths.


The demostrators seen in the above picture was during the funeral of the 6 men in Baghdad Today.

The incident happened on 5th June 2004 when these men hired by a person from Falluja to transport goods there. Once they transported the goods they have been captured by the Group called Mujaheeden (Wahabist) with the help of the local IP in Falluja!

During their return to Baghdad the 6 Shia men have been stopped by gun men terrorists who introduced themselves as the Mujaheeden who fought against the US Marine in April 2004! The 6 men managed to escape and seek refuge with the IP station in the city. The IP then handed them to one of the Wahabi extremist Mullah who handed them to the thugs...Among the captured was Mohammad Khodier a 12 years old boy who was released later. He told that the Mullah handed them to the terrorists who speak with non-Iraqi different Arab [accents]. They then decapitated and mutilated them and among them were his older brother and his uncle! Another man called Alaa Marai said that he went to negotiate with the terrorist to give them alive and most of them were Syrian who refused unless the money paid!

Shamran Mohammad Dawood one of the relative who went to negotiate their release told [Agence] France Press that Mullah Al-Janabi (Wahabi) told him to come back after 2 days to get them! When they returned back the terrorist told them to go to Al Ramadi hospital Mortuary. There the thugs asked the relative to pay 700 US Dollars for each body to be given! The relatives then have to give the money to Al-Janabi (Wahabi Mullah) to receive the mutilated bodies of their beloved ones!

Janabi with an interview with...Al-Arabyiah TV said he have nothing to do with their blood and he denied his involvement.

After tortured and abused; two Mullahs from the Wahabi sects called Abdullah Aljanabi and Thafer Al-Dilaimi ordered their execution and mutilation of their bodies and confiscating their belongings including their clothes!...