Al-Qaida video to train recruits targets U.S.

[CommunityEditor]

See footage al-Qaida is using to train recruits (http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/0...videos_070521/) --

In an especially chilling series of four videos, U.S. armored vehicles in Iraq are seen being hit by command-detonated mines. The videos were posted on the Web by Furqan Productions, which describes itself as the media arm of al-Qaida in Iraq. Rather than crude home videos, these feature high production values and graphics.

Unlike many al-Qaida videos, which typically seem aimed at raising morale of its own fighters and scoring propaganda points, these videos can be seen as training aids. They pay particular attention to U.S. efforts to thwart such attacks. The videos identify various armored vehicles and describe their capabilities, crew positions and vulnerabilities.

The videos, as originally posted, are in Arabic. Military Times has provided the translation. The first of the videos is an edited compilation of the set of four. We have also presented all four in their entirety.


Video 1: The Summary (http://www.militarytimes.com/multime...eo/insurgent5/)
Video 2: 'Hunters of Minesweepers' (http://www.militarytimes.com/multime...eo/insurgent1/)
Video 3: 'Planting an Explosive Device' (http://www.militarytimes.com/multime...eo/insurgent2/)
Video 4: 'Dirty Bombs' (http://www.militarytimes.com/multime...eo/insurgent3/)
Video 5: 'Minesweeper Hunters' (http://www.militarytimes.com/multime...o/insurgent4/)

[The Universal Curmudgeon_guest]

Originally Posted by CommunityEditor

See footage al-Qaida is using to train recruits

And it surprises people that al-Qa'eda is slightly more advanced that using sticks to draw pictures in the same?

Videos like these have been available for a long time.

WAKE UP!!! You aren't dealing with illiterate camel herders.

Originally Posted by The Universal Curmudgeon_guest

And it surprises people that al-Qa'eda is slightly more advanced that using sticks to draw pictures in the same?

Videos like these have been available for a long time.

WAKE UP!!! You aren't dealing with illiterate camel herders.

Bush certainly thought so....

[milligal]

These videos are troubling. I just saw on the news last night -MSNBC that Osama Bin Laden has given permission to one of his 'generals' or whatever he calls them, to perform attacks outside Iraq and focus on America.

I cannot forgive this administration for not capturing Osama Bin Laden. I cannot forgive them for taking out Saddam Hussein instead of the man responsible for 9/11. They are so concerned about leaving Iraq and having the terrorists follow us home-they are already coming over here and our troops are tied up in someone else's civil war!

[The Universal Curmudgeon_guest]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Bush certainly thought so....

I'm not so sure that "to think" is the correct verb to use in this instance.

[The Universal Curmudgeon_guest]

Originally Posted by milligal

These videos are troubling. I just saw on the news last night -MSNBC that Osama Bin Laden has given permission to one of his 'generals' or whatever he calls them, to perform attacks outside Iraq and focus on America.

And there is absolutely no possibility that this "permission" is a bit of "locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen"? Or maybe it's a bit like how people got on the FBI's "10 Most Wanted" list when ol' J.Edgar was running the shop.

You do know what one of the main criteria for getting on the "10 Most Wanted" list in those days was, don't you?

ANSWER }} The FBI had to know where you were with almost a certainty and have their plans to capture you finalized (just waiting for word from J. Edgar that he was going to be available for the publicity pictures right after the capture/kill). {{

Originally Posted by milligal

I cannot forgive this administration for not capturing Osama Bin Laden.

The rule is "If you aren't going to succeed, make sure that everyone knows that it isn't important.

Originally Posted by milligal

I cannot forgive them for taking out Saddam Hussein instead of the man responsible for 9/11.

Oh, I see that you missed the early bits when the Executive Branch was doing everything in their power to imply that Saddam Hussein WAS the one responsible.

Originally Posted by milligal

They are so concerned about leaving Iraq and having the terrorists follow us home...

To quote (more or less) a seniour member of the leadership of the Executive Branch of the government of the United States of America "We are fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.". Now doesn't that make sense?

Originally Posted by milligal

... they are already coming over here ...

I don't think that the present tense is the correct one to use in this instance - nor is the verb "to come".

Originally Posted by milligal

... and our troops are tied up in someone else's civil war!

Hey, you folks let it get started, so since you broke it - you own it. That means that it is "your" civil war. Remember, there was no civil war in Iraq prior to Mr. Bush invading (oops, liberating) it and revealing the whereabouts of those vast stockpiles of WMD.

Saddam Hussein might have been (oops again, there isn't any "conditional" about that one - he WAS) an SOB, but he was the SOB that was needed to keep the various factions in Iraq from killing each other.

[milligal]

Let's clarify one thing-'you broke it you own it?' President Bush won the presidential election because his brother is governor of Florida-the state in question over the use of the voting system in the 2000 election, you know the one-where the Supreme Court intervened and ruled that the votes stop being counted and Bush was elected as President despite popular vote? The same election where Bush could not take his presidential walk because people were throwing eggs at him?

President Bush is like an attorney from a powerful firm who bullied himself into your case, and who continues to do all sorts of off the wall things without your consent-while he's representing you!

The American people did not and do not (and I stand by past and present tense) want this war-have you checked recently? As much as 78% of the country is against this war. The American people are as much a victim of this administration as they are of Osama Bin Laden. I agree with you about Saddam, but don't try to pin that on the popular vote. Bush owns it-and he alone.

Originally Posted by The Universal Curmudgeon_guest

And there is absolutely no possibility that this "permission" is a bit of "locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen"? Or maybe it's a bit like how people got on the FBI's "10 Most Wanted" list when ol' J.Edgar was running the shop.

You do know what one of the main criteria for getting on the "10 Most Wanted" list in those days was, don't you?

ANSWER }} The FBI had to know where you were with almost a certainty and have their plans to capture you finalized (just waiting for word from J. Edgar that he was going to be available for the publicity pictures right after the capture/kill). {{
The rule is "If you aren't going to succeed, make sure that everyone knows that it isn't important.
Oh, I see that you missed the early bits when the Executive Branch was doing everything in their power to imply that Saddam Hussein WAS the one responsible.
To quote (more or less) a seniour member of the leadership of the Executive Branch of the government of the United States of America "We are fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.". Now doesn't that make sense?
I don't think that the present tense is the correct one to use in this instance - nor is the verb "to come".
Hey, you folks let it get started, so since you broke it - you own it. That means that it is "your" civil war. Remember, there was no civil war in Iraq prior to Mr. Bush invading (oops, liberating) it and revealing the whereabouts of those vast stockpiles of WMD.

Saddam Hussein might have been (oops again, there isn't any "conditional" about that one - he WAS) an SOB, but he was the SOB that was needed to keep the various factions in Iraq from killing each other.

Originally Posted by milligal

These videos are troubling.

I cannot forgive this administration for not capturing Osama Bin Laden. I cannot forgive them for taking out Saddam Hussein instead of the man responsible for 9/11. They are so concerned about leaving Iraq and having the terrorists follow us home-they are already coming over here and our troops are tied up in someone else's civil war!

Which administration???

Don't forget Clinton had this SOB in his sites more than once and let him go by being "unavailable" when a decision needed to be authorized, then days later balmed the military for being too slow to capture him.

Too busy with Monica I guess. I think she was a Bush spy too.

[milligal]

At the time Clinton was in, Bin Laden had not attacked a major city in the US. In fact it was a full year in to GWB's mighty presidential reign that we had the worst attck in US history. Let's also not pretend that the Republicans have done the same dirty deeds while they went after Bill for the Monica issue-that was just an excuse to attack him-and how could anyone commit 100% to their job under those circumstances? I'm not condoning adultry but that was his private life it had nothing to do with his service as President. I don't attack GWB for his daughter's idiotic behavior either. I hold him accountable for the poor job he's doing as President...

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Which administration???

Don't forget Clinton had this SOB in his sites more than once and let him go by being "unavailable" when a decision needed to be authorized, then days later balmed the military for being too slow to capture him.

Too busy with Monica I guess. I think she was a Bush spy too.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by The Universal Curmudgeon_guest

I'm not so sure that "to think" is the correct verb to use in this instance.

SPOT ON! Miracles occur, but not that big.