Insurgencies, Like the Moon, Wax and Wane, Ebb and Rise
Good to hear the newfound confidence of those in the know. That on the evidence, incidents of brutality and violence, death-dealing and barbarities in Iraq are on a downward spiral. How, one may ask, might they conceivably become more numerous than the state of murderous chaos they had assumed? When there is nowhere left to turn to for hope, humans have the ability to be optimistic beyond all hope.The growing success in subduing some elements of the violence in Iraq owes in part to the success met by the U.S. in persuading Sunni tribal leaders to join them. Aided in no small part by the maladaptive actions of al-Qaeda in Iraq targeting Sunni as well as Shia Iraqis, delivering horrendous deaths indiscriminately, with total abandon in the joys of bloodthirsty jihad. Alas, the first of the Sunni chiefs to show the way was assassinated a month ago.
Now, two days ago, no fewer than eleven such tribal Sunni and Shia chiefs, after having attended a meeting during which they affirmed their alliance with the United States and the Iraqi government, were abducted. The Iraqi defence ministry has since assured that eight of the eleven abductees have been freed, after a successful raid on the building where they were held. Of the three still missing one was subsequently found dead.
A suicide bomber riding a bicycle made his way through a gap in a concrete wall around an Iraqi police compound and detonated his explosives, sending himself to Paradise, and thirty Iraqi police officers in the process of performing morning exercises, to their early deaths. If, as the bomber anticipates, Allah will welcome him with great feeling for having been the instrument of the deaths of 30 other Muslims, what is in store for the thirty?
An additional twenty people were wounded, including a woman and a child. "I saw many bodies covered in blood. Some were dying, some had arms and legs blown off", according to one onlooker. Muslims murdering other Muslims. Sectarian violence beyond the fervid imagination of any psychosis-driven lunatic. The extent of the hate and the active determination to bring Death to his knees in an excess of jubilation beggars the mind.
In the same province of Diyala, police discovered the bodies of another twenty once-living specimens of humanity. These unfortunates had been decapitated. Is is true that only whole bodies will have their souls welcomed into Paradise? Successfully violent al-Qaeda terrorists revel in beheadings; a strange psychosis of the paroxysm of brutally removing the life-spirit from existence - the glory of gore.
Wait, we're not finished, not yet, there's more to come for this week's activities brought to you by the frantically busy needs of the terrorist on the block. In the northern Iraqi town of Siniya a car bomb was set off in a residential area. A resounding success by the parameters of fervent martyrs to Islamism, it killed eight people and wounded thirteen. They do the best they can, under the limitations of the opportunities afforded.
Despair if you must. There is more to come. Al-Qaeda promises that. The jihadists par excellence warn they plan to increase attacks on security forces, on Sunni Arab tribal leaders, along with Sunni insurgents - whom they consider apostates in any event, not having joined in their jihadist purpose - in revenge for their having taken umbrage at al-Qaeda attacking their own. Joining U.S. forces for the common defence of battling al-Qaeda (Wahaabist Saudis?).
In the town of Baquba in the province of Diyala, the police chief was among 26 people killed when a suicide bomber detonated himself in the glory of Paradisaical jihad in the compound of a mosque. The glory of the moment - just as Shia and Sunni Arab chiefs were in the process of holding talks leading to reconciliation.
Labels: Middle East, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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