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September 14, 2005
Speculation on the Baghdad Attacks
A briefing, using the understudy technique:
"I'm Zarqawi's lead henchman in Tal-Afar, that is, after all the other, much more qualified lead henchmen have been killed or captured. The Americans and the Iraqi government are coming to take over my city. I've stockpiled lots of materiel here, weapons, supplies, even some pre-staged car bombs, for quick use. Since the Iraqis and the Americans are clearing the entire city, I now have nowhere to keep my supplies . . . I can't use most of my weaponry in an open battle; the Americans will slaughter my forces. I can't transport most of my materiel; I don't have the operational lift to do it. The most I can do is roust all the guys I can (and let's be honest, I'm getting near to the bottom of the barrel here) and get them to drive the remaining car bombs out of the city. There's no way they can go west to our brothers in Syria. With luck they'll be able to reach Baghdad and launch some sort of attack there. Hopefully, it will kill many, but more importantly, it will cause the western press to completely forget about this operation in my haven of Tal Afar, and focus entirely on Baghdad's carnage. I mean, they practically work for us -- they even do multimedia presentations on our work that they never do for the efforts of the Americans. This seems to make sense because as we know, most of the press is holed up in Baghdad and never even visits other cities.
Finally, maybe I can get word to the Emir, Zarqawi, and he can spin it however he wants. Civil war against the Shi'ites or or a foretaste of a 'Great Ramadan Offensive' or whatever. That's just about the best I can do, praise be to Allah. Throw a Hail Mary -- as it were -- out there and see what happens . . . "
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If the press can make a meta-narrative, so can I. I mean -- come on! 10,000 US and Iraqi troops invade Tal Afar, with the Iraqis in the lead, and it's relegated to the back pages. But some car bombs in Baghdad, and the New York Times creates an entire multimedia presentation about it. Bull puckey, I say to that.
I have to credit The Fourth Rail as the source of all those links. Bill Roggio is apparently the only journalist in the world keeping track of things but . . . wait . . . he's not even a journalist. He'll probably get mad I even called him one . . . He's sitting in his living room in Jersey running circles around all the denizens of the Palestine Hotel. It's inspiring and disgraceful at the same time.
Posted by Chester at September 14, 2005 11:47 PM
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Good post, Chester. I agree wholeheartedly. And I feel very confident this is still part of their death throes. Just because it takes a year to choke the living crap out of these evil, evil thugs doesn't mean they aren't dying anyway. Dying violently, maybe. But dying nonetheless. And good riddance to the worst evil on the planet.
Subsunk
Posted by: Subsunk at September 15, 2005 7:33 AM
You're right, Chester. Bill's doing yeoman work over at The Fourth Rail. I'm impressed by it every day.
Posted by: Grim at September 15, 2005 8:05 AM
Journalists in the hotels of Baghdad give a new level of meaning to the flypaper theory.
Posted by: lometa at September 15, 2005 9:06 AM
Brilliant meta-narrative, Chester! With amazing forebearance, the Shiite leader Sistani has forbidden any retaliation. He won't let Iraq get suckered into a civil war. But for some reason, his response was missing from the NYT. I wonder why. (not!)
Posted by: Kenneth at September 15, 2005 9:11 AM
Ever try to pin a lefty down on just what their requirement for victory in Iraq is? You can't. I just wonder what the MSM will do if Hill-de-beast gets elected? She is just as pro-Iraq as PRESIDENT Bush, perhaps more so, and I certainly think she would do a better job of prosecuting the WoT. She is much meaner and has bigger balls. Bush and the State Departments latest back down on Iran is bad news.
Posted by: Stehpinkeln at September 15, 2005 10:37 AM
Thanks again, Chester!
---Dan
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