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2003-10-24 Iraq

Residents foil bomb plot in Baghdad suburb

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Posted by Steve White 2003-10-24 12:14:01 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We're winning.
Iraq is not going to be free until it frees itself, until its people steps up and takes responsibility for what goes on in their own country. The US, indeed any country can only do so much to help, but the hard and important work is theirs to do. It looks like they are doing it.

Posted by Ben 2003-10-24 4:29:40 AM|| 2003-10-24 4:29:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It does, indeed, look like some Iraqis realize this is their life in the balance... it can turn out well if they'll take responsibility (Arabs, it's a new word, but a very important one. Try it. You'll like it. Eventually, anyway.) - and it can turn into another Pakiland factional zoo of anarchy, if they won't.

Syrian FM - This is classic butt coverage. Insurance. Pfeh.

Posted by .com 2003-10-24 7:12:19 AM|| 2003-10-24 7:12:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Read the Baghdad blogs. To quote from one, the most recent, Healing Iraq:

"Are these people sane? I mean what are they thinking? Is this our latest form of 'resistance'? Threatening our own children for getting some shiny new schoolbags. I am trying very hard to understand. This so called resistance is getting hated more and more by Iraqis everywhere. I'm sure this will only add to that scorn exponentially. They are losing any sympathy they may have had earlier. The terrorists have turned out to be MUCH dumber than I thought."

They know who the enemy is, better each day.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-10-24 9:01:44 AM|| 2003-10-24 9:01:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 encouraging article.

Posted by B 2003-10-24 9:45:05 AM|| 2003-10-24 9:45:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I was going to cite Zeyad's blog, too, but Bulldog was on top of it. The encouraging thing is the common people are getting their first tastes of actual freedom in decades, and they are sick of being victims of Ba'athists and fundamentalists. They realize that the sooner peace and order returns to Iraq the sooner the Coalition forces will leave and they can determine their own destinies.

Posted by Dar 2003-10-24 12:10:45 PM|| 2003-10-24 12:10:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Put Syria at the top of the To Do List...late 2004/early 2005 looks good.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-10-24 12:44:28 PM|| 2003-10-24 12:44:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder where Zeyad falls in the Iraqi bell curve. Reading the few other genuine Iraqi blogs is less encouraging, though not exactly negative... sometimes seeming to expect magic fixes (Riverbend) and, at other times, appearing to be pandering a bit (Salman Pax) to the media - which are just to the Left of Trotsky. One thing is clear - Zeyad's first-hand accounts and descriptions ring far truer than the pontification and editorial pieces.

I wish there was some way to show support for him other than just reading him. I suggest that Iraq has enough dentists (or can import them) -- but it doesn't have enough articulate + intelligent natives like Zeyad. This guy needs to be on Iraqi TV everyday doing exactly what he does in his blog - putting words to the feelings and giving voice to moderate intelligent people. Kudos to the man, he's a class act.

Posted by .com 2003-10-24 12:56:48 PM|| 2003-10-24 12:56:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Zeyad still needs to be careful, too much publicity can still get a fellow killed in Iraq.

Posted by Tresho 2003-10-24 6:09:15 PM|| 2003-10-24 6:09:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The UK has things getting better and better in Basra.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-10-24 9:38:39 PM|| 2003-10-24 9:38:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "The arrest of a Syrian would, if confirmed, lend support to claims by US and Iraqi officials that foreign fighters from Iran and Syria are entering Iraq to fight coalition troops." Sheesh, is there no end to Al Guardian's Ministry of Truth semantics. The capture of a Syrian, if confirmed, would not lend to support to US claims that foreign fighters are entering Iraq, it would confirm them in absolute terms.
Future headline:
"The discovery of Osama bin Laden's head impaled on the White House flagpole, if confirmed, would lend support to recent Pentagon claims that bin Laden had been killed."

Posted by Anonymous 2003-10-24 11:38:06 PM|| 2003-10-24 11:38:06 PM|| Front Page Top

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