al-Jaaf Captured – It’s Torture Time
January 24th, 2005 at 10:12 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesOh, I’m not supposed to say that am I? How insensitive of me. What a brute I am.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s right hand-job man and chief bomb-maker, Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf, was arrested during a raid last week in Baghdad.
Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf, also known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi, was arrested during a Jan. 15 raid in Baghdad, a government statement said Monday. Two other militants linked to Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s terror group also have been arrested, authorities announced Monday.
Al-Jaaf was “the most lethal of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s lieutenants,” the statement said.
The announcement Monday came a few hours after a suicide driver detonated a car bomb at a guard post outside the Iraqi prime minister’s party headquarters in Baghdad, injuring at least 10 people. Zarqawi’s group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi heads al Qaeda in Iraq, the terror network’s local affiliate. The group is behind many of the car bombings, beheadings, assassinations and other attacks driving the insurgency in Iraq.
Al-Jaaf was responsible for 32 car bombing attacks that killed hundreds of Iraqis, the statement said.
“Abu Omar al-Kurdi claims responsibility for some of the most ruthless attacks on Iraqi police forces and police stations,” said Thaer al-Naqib, spokesman for interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
The statement said al-Jaaf “confessed to building approximately 75 percent of the car bombs used in attacks in Baghdad since March 2003,” al-Naqib said.
The U.K.’s telegraph reports this arrest with great sadness, but finds a way to work in more accusations of prisoner abuse in a breathtaking journalistic non sequitur.
The claim came as insurgents detonated a car bomb close to the offices of Iyad Allawi, Iraq’s interim prime minister, wounding 10 people. Zarqawi’s organisation later admitted responsibility.
The seizure of Abu Omar al-Kurdi, who is accused of masterminding some of the worst car bombings in Iraq, is the first major breakthrough by Iraqi forces fighting against Zarqawi’s network.
Meanwhile, Iraq’s embryonic security forces, which are taking over responsibility for policing from US-led troops, have been accused of “systematic” torture and ill-treatment of suspected insurgents, ordinary criminals and even children.
Human Rights Watch, the New York-based campaign group, has said that 72 out of 90 former prisoners it interviewed alleged abuse, including beatings.
What the hell did that last part have to do with anything, other than showing more anti-US bias from the eurosocialist media? What’s next, an article about space-age cooking utensils peppered with pictures from Abu Ghraib? I wouldn’t put it past them.
Speaking of beatings and abuse, that’s exactly what should be on the agenda for bomb-maker Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf. If anyone knows the inner workings of the “insurgency”, it’s this guy. His treatment should be simple. Get every drop of information possible out of him – no matter what it takes. That includes torture. And not the panties-on-the-head-style-homoerotic-pyramid torture.
With this politically-correct war that President Junior is trying to fight, I’m sure it will never happen, but it damn well needs to. If using torture would have gotten critical intel out of some islamofascist shitbag and saved the lives of the 22+ servicemen who were killed in the Mosul attack in December, I would say that torture was more than justified.
We’re in the same situation here. We have no idea what these sonsofbitches have in store for the election on Sunday – odds are, al-Jaaf does. It’s time for him to confess, no matter what that takes. The ACLU, Human Rights Watch and every other bunch of limp-wristed terrorist sympathizers can go to hell.
January 25th, 2005 at 7:54 am
so, preston, tell us how you REALLY feel.
you know there won’t be any torture. there may be fluffed pillows and mints, but no torture. after all, it’s his love we want to win over, not useful intel. sheesh!
January 26th, 2005 at 5:17 am
I totally agree about torturing the meanies but where does it stop?
I have noticed that we are headed toward a police state, you now have to show your drivers license when returing shtuff at Foley’s that you paid cash for.
And what about the cameras with face-recognition programs that are installed in some of the major cities on busy street corners? That is not Big Brother getting you used to beeing watched, that is to catch wanted criminals! should they happen to be on busy street corners in major cities.