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They call it “taqiyya.”

why didn’t Wuterich’s men find a single enemy combatant during their fateful house-clearing operations on Chestnut?

I’ve been following this on blogs and Newsmax since Phil Brennan has been doing a good job of reporting on it.

As for enemy combatants, I recall reading from the start that they reported taking fire. I also recall reading, when existence of the UAV video was leaked, that the video showed the terrorists going out the back of houses.

The logical thing would have been to station one or two jihadis in houses on either side of the road and then have them open fire on the convoy after the IED went off

Again, I believe it was reported that this did happen.

As for the lack of jihadi propaganda video, that would not have been the effect they wanted. Jihadi video would have shown the Marines were going after legitimate targets. The story they wanted told was that of out-of-control Marines killing anything that moved. All it took was for some whackjob with connections to AQ to shop a video around long enough for the right moron to bite.

Speaking of morons, I also recall reading that the video had been shopped to others before Time took the bait.

That murtha is all too willing to carry al queda water makes him a disgracetraitor

shame on him

Chuck on October 8, 2007 at 8:52 PM

fixed.

He should be tried next.

With an important finding in the investigation of the mother of all Pallywood scandals looming large this week–the France 2/al Dura case, we just might get a glimpse of the nature of the efforts prejudiced powers employ to shape media to their in…

If the purpose was to trigger a massacre, they wouldn’t want to kill all the Marines, just get them to start clearing houses.

That murtha is all too willing to carry al queda water makes him a disgrace

shame on him

McGirk never interviewed the Marines, who ironically had prepared a similar intelligence summary in anticipation of his canceled visit.

Why the hell would he want to interview the “enemy“?

It was, dear. Multiple bloggers revealed the set-up back in June of 2006, back before any testimony came out. – Redhead Infidel

Maybe the media wanted a massacre and there was not enough proof in their (MSM) opinion to report this as a set-up, so they got their massacre because massacres sell and set-ups don’t. Afterall, look at the Duke Lacross rape case. And now the Rush Limbaugh debacle. Classic examples of evidence suppression or ignoring and media biased.

By scattering them, you have no assurance that the Marines will pass by all three bombs, let alone that they’ll do so around the same time.

If the other route was known or anticipated route to be used to return back to the nearest base, then I can see terrorists planting IEDs there too. They do this sort of thing. They are smart. They watch the reaction, the vehicle recovery, and how and what directing the convoy goes once the casualties and vehicle are recovered. With this info, and the location of near bases, you can very easily anticipate the Marine’s actions or where they will try to go after being attacked. If not to set them off all at once, you can do alot of damage if you catch an attacked and wounded team during their recovery effort and during their evacuation further down the road or on another anticipated road they would use. It is a common tactic. They are always studying and adapting.

benedict arnold

quisling

john murtha

quite a list he’s in.

C

Mike Nifong, say hello to John Murtha.

I suppose there’s no chance of getting the pair of them neighboring accommodations at Leavenworth.

I’d say they were made for each other.

cheers

eon

Small consolation.

I have no doubt that Murtha DID know that report was manufactured and an Al Qaeda op when he spouted off. I’d be very surprised if Murtha was in the dark about this as the Congressional Democrats are clearly “tight” with our enemies.

then, once again, this is a fantastically lucky stroke for Al Qaeda, no?

I don’t know… The way you describe it makes it sound like the marines arrived before Al Qaeda had a chance to finish setting up. For all I know, the driver of the car full of guys forgot to fill the gas tank the night before, so they had to fill up on the way. Then they got stopped before they got into position… or maybe they had nothing to do with it at all.

“whether Murtha knew about it or not when he was prominently accusing the Haditha Marines of murder “in cold blood.” “

I’m going to venture a guess that he did. An extremely loud condemnation of actions would most likely produce the results he desired, adding fuel to the fire of the BDS gang.
I only hope we will find the truth, and imprison any who acted so callously and seditiously as we suspect murtha did.