something rotten going on...

[miriam_e]

Iraqis apprehend two Americans disguised as Arabs trying to detonate a car bomb in a residential neighborhood of western Baghdad’s al-Ghazaliyah district on Tuesday.

A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday.

Residents of western Baghdad’s al-Ghazaliyah district told Quds Press that the people had apprehended the Americans as they left their Caprice car near a residential neighborhood in al-Ghazaliyah on Tuesday afternoon (11 October 2005). Local people found they looked suspicious so they detained the men before they could get away. That was when they discovered that they were Americans and called the Iraqi puppet police.

Five minutes after the arrival of the Iraqi puppet police on the scene a large force of US troops showed up and surrounded the area. They put the two Americans in one of their Humvees and drove away at high speed to the astonishment of the residents of the area.

Quds Press spoke by telephone with a member of the al-Ghazaliyah puppet police who confirmed the incident, saying that the two men were non-Arab foreigners but declined to be more precise about their nationality.

Quds Press pointed out that about a month ago, the Iraqi puppet police in the southern Iraqi city of al-Basrah arrested two Britons whom they accused of attempting to cause an explosion in the city. The Britons were taken into custody by the Iraqi puppet police only to be broken out of prison by an assault of British occupation troops. That incident has created a tense relationship between the British and the local puppet authorities in al-Basrah, Quds Press noted.

[from http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/66432 about halfway down the page]

Comments

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Yay for the fog of war.
*shrug*

I have been wondering if they were part of the Halliburton Army, just doing an honest days work.
Really, Halliburton has quite an interest in stringing out the war more than anyone.

The US did, IME, but then it realised that all it was doing was training better Jihaidists.


"It had been long known to the Iraqis, to the Arabs, and to all Moslems in countries bordering Iraq that the majority of the terrorist attacks in Iraq, especially car bombing, are perpetrated by covert British, American, and Israeli operatives. ..."
http://www.arab2000.net/wnewsDetails.asp?id=26918&cid=25

*shrug*

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

"Our side" has gone over to the dark.
We have become the enemy who destroy everything for obscene money.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

*snarf*

[hestia.livejournal.com]

This is collective insanity.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

It truly is.

[sleepyaardvark.livejournal.com]

Sounds to me like some sort of covert op. The Halliburton theory makes no sense; contrary to common perceptions, the relationship between the military and private companies is NOT such that they'd be able to quickly summon a force to spirit their people away like this. Also, Halliburton, although obviously corrupt, is not really focused on paramilitary type operations. However, there are several contractors who ARE involved in paramilitary operations, most notably Blackwater USA which is based in northeastern North Carolina (actually not far from me). Blackwater is notable because it was four of their employees who were involved in that famous incident in Fallujah where four contractors were run down, killed, and their bodies dangled from a bridge. This was one of the main events that precipated the full-out assault to "take back" Fallujah in 2004. Problem is, many things about the attack were rather suspicious, most prominently lack of security that seemed to be in violation of even Blackwater's own policies. So add that one to your list of "mysterious shadowy incidents".

The pattern to me suggest some sort of covert operation and based upon the diversity of the specific incidents, there is likely centralized planning behind it, which suggest s wider goal. The goal is probably NOT known to these operatives who are being caught, because of the nature of compartamentalization in intelligence operations. What the goal might be, we can only guess at. I've long suspected (and this suspicion only continues to grow as events unfold) that none of us really know the full truth of why we are in Iraq or who is behind it or what they are trying to achieve. I feel that the answers to those questions are vitally important, but I don't feel any closer to figuring them out.