How do they know they've killed 68 'al-Qaeda militants'?

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/22/iraq.main/index.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19349522/

Do they have membership cards in their wallets? A secret tattoo? Dog tags with 'return to bin Laden' written on them? Is there a registry online?

How the hell does the military/media know who it is that's been killed in Iraq?

[MADem]

They baptize 'em, kinda like the Mormons did those concentration camp victims....

They're dead, so they can't gripe....

[ContraBass Black]

1. The same way they identified dead Viet Cong.

[dkofos]

7. You beat me to that comment.

[Spinzonner]

2. When you have a history of 'making shit up'

You don't have to worry about niceties like that.

[Throwing Stones]

3. They were wearing the Qaeda boots

like the ones that Sears Tower plotters were trying to get.

[MADem]

10. Or maybe they had the same type of underwear that Lil Bush swiped in his Camp AQ panty raid!

[bigtree]

4. they don't

they don't care

[EFerrari]

5. They know exactly who they've killed -- mostly innocent civilians,

I guess dead Iraqis automatically qualify as terrorists.

This is so insane. Even were it true that they killed 68 terrorists, they killed 650,000 other folks to do it -- and that's not counting dead Americans or Brits. :mad:

[MNDemNY]

6. 68 dead people= 68 killed al-qaeda. Vietnam math.

[peace13]

8. 100's of thousands dead....

68 al-Qaeda, good job George.

[xultar]

9. They were wearing "I'm a al-Qaeda militant" t-shirts silly.

[jerryme1]

11. It seems that if Bush "knows" they are al qaeda operatives, they should

not be labeled with the murky "enemy combatant" term, and perhaps they are entitled to Geneva Convention rights.... Where is our George Orwell to comment on this s__t?

[malaise]

12. They don't know

It's spin.

[MiniMe]

13. "They had a gun, they must be Al Qaeda militants"

I think that is how it goes.

[spanone]

14. It's horseshit, but the press asks no questions. Propaganda.

[spanone]

15. dupe

[frogcycle]

16. they count the feet and divide by two

[wryter2000]

17. This has been making me nuts!

I first noticed this a couple of weeks ago. They call anyone we kill in Iraq Al Qaeda.

[WinkyDink]

18. It's called "LYING".

[Parche]

19. Al-Kida

Because Georgie and Dickles said so............so there :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[wtmusic]

20. Easy. If we killed 'em, they're AQ. nt

[AlCzervik]

21. they're all the "#2 guy" worst job ever BTW.

thank goodness Al-Quaeda issues org charts or else we'd never know.

[CanonRay]

22. What's amazing is than no one in the press ever asks that question.

[EFerrari]

24. Presstitutes. n/t

[TheWraith]

23. Easy. They killed 68 males between the ages of 14 and 60.

Therefore, they must all have been militants.