Ramadi: Insurgents Used Women And Children

Anti-American SPIEGEL ONLINE, the online version of Germany's left-wing weekly SPIEGEL, presents an Instant Messenger communication between 2 Iraqi brothers during the Ramadi fighting where 12 marines were killed. The piece is in German, translated from the original version at qoqaz.com. It is clear from the communication: The insurgents are using women and children to attack the Americans.

Al-Anbari: All of the people in the area have started to move, men and women. I didn’t think that the people in this area were so heroic. The mothers are even pushing their children into the fight.

Kamal: Whatever God wants! Blessed be the Almighty!

Al-Anbari: Imagine: I encountered a boy who was not even 15 years old who was carrying a weapon, but without ammunition (…). When I saw this heroic impetuousness, I pulled my magazine out and gave it to him.

Kamal: Oh God! God is great!

Al-Anbari: I also saw a young guy who bravely stood up to the Americans and threw things at them, and they just couldn’t react to it, even though they were so many.

Kamal: Such news strengthen ones pride. (our translation)

(Translation by Ray D.)

Comments

[Sandy P.]

Just because one is a woman or child does not mean one is innocent, especially in that area.

The only innocents are the very young who have not been brainwashed. They're only dressed just like daddy is as splodydopes propped next to an AK-47.

Some call it Palestinian child abuse.

[Michael Hiteshew]

Their constant invocation that everything that happens is the will of god gives insight into their mindset.

When your entire worldview is taken from a 1,400 book detailing the life of a child molesting mass murderer, it tends to warp your image of reality. That book becomes their reality. In many cases, their only literacy is their knowledge of the Koran. It's the sum total of their education. All they know is in that book.

The same charge could be made of the Bible, and much carnage and torture in the middle ages was certainly done in the name of god. Look at the Inquisition. Although the New Testament is far more benign and peaceful than the Koran. Ever read any of the Koran? I've read parts. Lot's of kill-the-infidels throughout the random sections I read.

Anyone here ever read Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations? It was published here in the States about 10 years ago. It's premise was that since the polarizing influence of the Cold War has passed, that civilizational issues are going to rise up and dominate the world agenda. Never have I read a book as prescient as that one.

[Col. Klink]

Yeah, I don't doubt comments about some Germans calling US-troops "murderers". Fruitcakes and whackos can be sadly found everywhere.

I have read vice versa Americans, who only view today's Germans as Nazis (will those same Americans view all Iraqis only as Saddam-ists for decades to come?) and Americans who openly said that they hope for the next big Al Qaida bomb to hit Europe (especially France). How much more inhumane can you get?, I thought.

But I guess, one tends to memorize the radical comments the longest. Thank God I know that those Americans who _hope_ for Europeans to be hit by a big Al Qaida-attack are in the minority.

But I am generally disappointed that a picture of huddled Marines in prayer would not be used for a solemn dignified silence, but that commenters use it for personal spinning of their views on Europe - wouldn't other blog-entries on here be a better place for this?

Just a thought.

[daffy]

only a low down dead prsioner of war camp commander like klink would find anything disappointing in this blog.