al Qaeda Dislocates U.S. Security Plan by Genocidal Massacre

[snappyturtle]

I found this article by a circuitous route and wonder if anyone else has read about this "battle"?
The website is Debka....????? The last paragraph of the article says that since this has happened, Gen. Petraeus and Crocker cannot talk beyond August 14th and U.S. security!! See what you think...I don't know what to think since this is truly a horrendous attack.

www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1297

"This time, Al Qaeda in Iraq selected a tiny, isolated, unprotected community of some 150,000 Yazidi Kurds, persecuted by Sunni and Shiite Muslims alike, as the victims of its barbarity. Tuesday, Aug. 14, within minutes, three oil tankers driven by suicide bombers had murdered at least 500 people, injured more than 1,000 and transformed an ancient indigenous Iraqi sect into a humanitarian problem.

While rescuers were still digging bodies out of the rubble of their destroyed homes in Qataniya and Adnaniya near Mosul, tens of thousands snatched their remaining belongings and streamed to the Syrian border.

Exchanges among al Qaeda’s adherents in Iraq 4, picked up by DEBKAfile’s special monitors, disclosed method behind the savagery. The jihadists had made an example of the Yazidis of Mt. Sinjar, holding them up as the first complete community they had succeeded in driving out of Iraq. They even urged harassing the refugees to speed the removal of every last Yazidi Kurd from Iraq.

Al Qaeda timed its brutal attack for maximum disruption of the latest American operations in the framework of the US-Iraqi overall Phantom Strike offensive to secure Iraq against insurgents and terrorists.

Lightning Hammer brought 16,000 US and Iraqi troops to the Diyala northeast of Baghdad province Aug. 14 to purge the area between Baquba and Balad and open up the main routes linking Baghdad to Kurdistan in the north for safe travel.

Marne Husky was launched the next day by 4,000 troops as an aviation-based offensive. Infantry drops by helicopter are targeting Sunni insurgents and terrorist sanctuaries in southeastern Baghdad and choking off bombs and weapons smuggling into the capital.

This site...click on home...then in the right hand column down a couple of articles is an article talking about the Israeli "fly over" of Syria...and how the Russian defense system was squelched!

[aquart]

1. "Adherents"???? Pray tell, who are al qaeda's "adherents"?

Nice fudge, fellas. No chance they were targeted because a Yazhidi girl tried to marry a Muslim boy and got murdered for it?

I'm just guessing, but are al qaeda's adherents called SUNNIS? As in, the Sunnis were pissed off and murdered the lot of them? Because if we said that, we'd have to ask how many Saudis were involved, wouldn't we?

[snappyturtle]

2. I KNOW! I just don't know what to make of this. n/t

[Rick Myers]

3. DEBKAfiles is a radical pro-Israeli not known for accuracy in reporting

Take what ever you read there with a grain of salt...

[snappyturtle]

4. Thanks Rick....I had never seen it before....but sorta interesting.

Having just a few minutes ago heard Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr on the Syrian "attack", Debka may be close on this one...again imho.

[snappyturtle]

5. Gotta kick this because I want some more input! n/t