[Bellerophon]

1. Officials say that the Saudi eagerly gave detailed accounts of how he was recruited by the insurgency, his motives to join the insurgency, how he traveled to Iraq and how he joined the insurgency. In addition the Saudi, a former college student, provided information on his training, locations of training sites, tactics he was taught and attacks he was instructed to conduct.

Eagerly, right? So we know that there is less time being spent on indoctrination or that there is a smaller pool of applicants.


2. Additionally, the Saudi told officials he joined the terrorists in Iraq primarily to target the U.S. military, but he quickly became disillusioned with the insurgents after only several weeks.

Wait for it, because -> the insurgents did not pray regularly and “were only interested in money.” The insurgents, the Saudi said, were preoccupied with hijacking vehicles and the value of vehicles.

As opposed to why he joined the insurgency, to “target the U.S. Military”

3. The Saudi admitted to officials that he “had made a huge mistake” by joining the insurgency and that he had a very different view of American Soldiers after watching them operate in Iraq. He had seen U.S. Soldiers giving candy to children and on one occasion, a U.S. Soldier waved to him.

Well, I guess now that we know that he made a huge mistake, we should hand him a beer and introduce him to our sisters. I doubt that this has anything to do with hearts and minds. If he had proper indoctrination he would think that waving was the American sign of oppression and that the candy was a tool of the infidel used to corrupt children from following the true path of Allah. Or he is lying to save his ass.

4. The captured insurgent went on to say that he didn’t believe he would be a martyr if he died in Iraq, repeating several times to interviewers that insurgents were just involved for profit.

The huge mistake was that those, whom recruited him, recruited a holy warrior, not a whole warrior.

He would not, “be a martyr if he died in Iraq (stealing cars)”.

-Interesting-

Tell me if you have heard this one: A Syrian, an Iraqi and a Saudi are arrested on suspicion of insurgency. The Iraqi says nothing; his disdain for the oppressors of his native land and people needs no explanation. The Syrian explains that it is in his country’s and his faith’s best interests that the economic prosperity of the region not be allowed to fall into the hands of an oppressive colonial government and that he conducts operations to make the occupation “unprofitable” for the U.S. The Saudi says “I came here to kill Americans and I cannot believe that these people had different agendas.


Bruce (volunteering for chew toy duty since 03/05)