I am sort of following on the most recent reports from Iraq. Not really, just sort of ...

Now, I didn't want to bug everybody with more Iraq postings, but something started to bug me.

The Green Zone is proclaimed to be a heavily fortified area within Baghdad.
As I look at it, I can't rid myself of the feeling, that something very basic seems wrong here.

The 'Good Guys' become literally more imprisoned inside the 'Green Zone Fortress', while the 'Bad Guys' are running around free outside the 'prison walls'.

Somehow, I thought it was supposed to be the other way around ...

Oops, I just noticed, I'm wearing my sweater inside out ... tzzsss, things happen, don't they

We even need to sneak in.

Cheney's visit, under heavy security, was so secret that even Iraq's prime minister said he was surprised when he showed up for what he believed was a meeting with the U.S. ambassador only to see Cheney waiting to greet him.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,179046,00.htm

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Dint choo???


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Iraqi Army: 52 Blasts Hit Baghdad Green Zone Last Week - AFP

BAGHDAD (AFP)--At least 52 rockets or mortar bombs hit the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad in the past week, Brigadier General Qassim Atta, spokesman for the Iraqi army in the capital, said Tuesday.
Atta said another 90 mortar bombs or rockets struck various other places in Baghdad over the same period.
The Green Zone, seat of the Iraqi government and the U.S. embassy, has come under sustained attacks in recent weeks, causing the deaths of four Americans, including two soldiers, and two of Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi's Iraqi guards.
The U.S. military says the mortar and rocket attacks are by Shiite militants from eastern Baghdad's Sadr City, bastion of the Mahdi Army militia of anti- American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
His Shiite fighters are currently engaged in fierce clashes with Iraqi and U.S. forces in Sadr City. Dozens of people have been killed in the firefights.

I don't know. Call me naive or whatever.

But how come the CIA or whoever just can't fight smart and TAKE OUT this "anti- American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr"?

Give me one reason they shouldn't .... it might fragment the group so totally, that it would wander away in confusion , or be like a snake with the head chopped off.

Why the hell not identify and TAKE OUT all those damned militant clerics?

On the theory,

"Cut off the head, and the body will die"

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I have no clue. Maybe it's all fabrication or maybe those Muslims know their terrain better than we anticipated.

Alltogether things just don't look too rosie.

As far as I have researched on the subject of wars being waged against the Muslim world, any Western Power and even Russia retreated at some point.

Algerian National Liberation 1954-1962

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/algeria.htm

Because the U.S. doesn't officially sanction assassinations. There is a WHOLE lot more to the sectarian politics there than that. You should read "Killer Elite" by Michael Smith, it gives a good insight into the way Spec Ops and the Intel community operate. Other good books on Iraq are "No True Glory" and "The March Up" both by Bing West. They are primarily about the combat during the first part of the War, but they also touch on the sectarian politics.

Maybe not OFFICIALLY....

But what about Iran back in '53?

Diem in Vietnam in '63?

Allende in Chile in '73?


I am not into conspiracy theories, or anything like that, but I think, that UNOFFICIOUSLY, the U.S. government didn't mind at all.

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CIA is NOT ALLOWED to do that any more! Thank Jimmy Carter for stopping the judicious culling of bad guys and Bill Clinton for not even letting us talk to 'bad guys'



I absolutely agree...with cutting off the head!

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That's not true. What about all the recent Predator strikes on suspected Al-Qaeda targets?

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Or kill the body and the head later.

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Probably for the same reason Israel never put a bullet in Arafat's head. If there was even a hint that Israel took him out the place would have exploded. My guess is that if Sadir is taken out, all hell will break loose.

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Perhaps so. But nothing is being accomplished today with the way things are going. Perhaps if hell broke loose, things might get better in the long run. You can fix a tattered old car by plugging one problem at a time or maybe sometimes, you might be better taking a financial hit today and buying a whole new car with way less problems. Sure, it will mean a car payment and increased insurance. However, the other way, you are paying more for it in the long run

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Today a friend called me with good news.

His '84 500 SEC was found and ready for pick at a downtown LA impound, after it was stolen about a month ago from its parking location on Malibu Road during late evening, while he was on his daily 45 min.-walk.

Nothing was removed from the car, everything seemed the way it is supposed to be.

They're coming ...

About 2 months ago a number of car burglary attemps were undertaken in my neighborhood ... unprecedented in this area.