Tide Ebbing

Osama gives the Euros their marching orders. As usual, the blatherfest is somewhat irony-laden. 

Topics: Europe, al qaeda

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:05 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2007

2 Responses to “Tide Ebbing”

  1. saltydog Says:

    That last paragraph is a beaut.

  2. tanstaafl Says:

    It is better for you to stand against your leaders who are dropping in on the White House, and to work seriously to lift the injustice against the believers,” he said, accusing U.S. forces and their allies of intentionally killing women and children in Afghanistan.

    Oh really ?

    And somebody should tell OBL that one of the reasons for the turnaround in Iraq is that many of his would be sympathizers finally grokked that the majority of the targets of Islamist bombings and so forth were, precisely, Muslims themselves.

    (of course, Islamists would also seek out the occasional Iraqi Christian, but there were much fewer targets of opportunity)

    While Abu Musab al Zarqawi had as a principal component of his slaughtering campaign in Iraq, specifically, the slaughter of shi’ites, men, women, children, whoever was most convenient to keep the terror alive.

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