July 7, 2008
8:00 AM
Bash & Welsh handled the JihadiKiller Hour last night and if you missed Bash’s opening rant, you really missed something. But you can listen to it right here.
Bash also has put out the first Bashman Video in 7 months, has it been that long? Get your fix, click here to watch “Hey Pig” and find out about the true cause of Global Jihad.
Damn, it’s good to be an American.
10:30 A.M.
Did You Know: One in Every Hundred Overseas War on Terror Detainees has a Criminal Arrest Record in the U.S.
And then there is the homegrown ‘weeds’ …
11:15 A.M.
Yet, MORE problems with MS Internet Explorer
1:00 P.M.
Your Monday-After-The-Long-Holiday-Weekend-I-Gotta-Go-Back-To-Work F*ck Fest
3:15 P.M.
From our blogger buddy Ace:
Top Ten Signs You’re at an Afghan “Wedding Party”
10. Dress is strictly black-tie and black-bandana facial mask
9. Invitations promise “Dinner at Nine, Dancing ’till Midnight, Suicide-Bombing ’till ?…”
8. The wedding band’s rendition of Signed, Sealed, Delivered contains a bassline which incorporates coded messages to Hezbollah
7. When the bride tosses the “bouquet,” panicked guests run away in shrieking horror
6. Dance floor doubles as obstacle course and mortar range
5. The best man’s toast concludes, “Health, wealth, and happiness, and death to the pig-monkey Jews and infidel Crusaders”
4. The happy couple is registered at Kalishnikov Weapons Emporium
3. According to tradition, the bride’s father pays for the wedding; the groom’s father provides the new couple with a SATCOM radio and Katyushka surface-to-surface missiles
2. Dinner selections include prime rib, stuffed chicken, and binary-form sarin gas
…and the Number One Sign You’re at an Afghan “Wedding Party”…
1. The groom sports the traditional Afghan handlebar mustache, as does the bride
5:30 P.M.
The Yankee and the fake, Transplant-Brit?
8:00 P.M.
Americans’ confidence in Congress is in the toilet … and circling the drain.
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July 7th, 2008 at 7:07 amA friend sent me this page and I wanted to share it with you all.
Adaptive Sports Rehabilitation For Severely Injured U.S. Soldiers
July 7th, 2008 at 10:15 amhttp://www.brentstirton.com/feature-adaptive_sports.php
11:15 A.M.
Well, I guess my gut instinct was right when I put Firefox on my new rig 2+ years ago.
Try if you don’t have it…it’s free!
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
July 7th, 2008 at 11:42 amEveryone’s attention is focused on obama lately.
Don’t count the clintons out just yet.
They didn’t go through all of this,
July 7th, 2008 at 5:19 pmjust to be last minute stiff-armed by the likes of obama:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/BODIES.html
Holy fucking shit!
Sandy Hume?!? Brit Hume’s son??!!??
I had NO idea!
July 7th, 2008 at 5:45 pmWell this is out of the fuggin blue:
(picked up this morning)
Tony Zendejas Allegedly Drugged, Raped Woman
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July 11th, 2008 at 12:24 amSuck my balls ISI. Americans bring their warriors home for the eternal honor they have earned. Your dead rot in the sun by the side of the road and are eaten by dogs and insects and have parts cut off for souveiers.
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21183&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080713-06
July 13, 2008
Soldiers recovered, returned home after determined search
Multi-National Division – Center
BAGHDAD – On June 4, 2007, the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq declared two captured U.S. Soldiers dead and buried. The message mocked the United States in saying the bodies would not be returned nor found.
Fourteen months of relentless efforts by U.S. and Coalition forces proved the terrorists’ taunts false.
Coalition Special Operations Forces accompanied by Soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, recovered the remains and equipment of Sgt. Alex Jimenez, of Lawrence, Mass., and Pfc. Byron Fouty, of Waterford, Mich., west of Jurf As-Sukhr on July 8, 2008, led to the site by one of the men who buried them.
Jimenez, Fouty, and Pfc. Joseph Anzack, of Torrance, Calif., all Soldiers from the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, were captured, and four other Soldiers and their Iraqi interpreter killed during an attack May 12, 2007, outside Yousifiyah, Iraq – an area within the infamous “triangle of death.”
The body of Pfc. Anzack was later recovered from the Euphrates River downstream from the attack on May 23, 2007.
The search for Jimenez and Fouty continued over the following weeks with more than 4,000 Soldiers conducting combat operations in support of their recovery. They disseminated posters, talked to the local population and engaged community leaders for help – and absorbed casualties among their own in the determined search that followed.
“The US Army Soldier’s creed states: ‘I will never leave a fallen comrade,’ expressing the belief that there is a bond between professional warriors that can never be broken – not even by capture or death,” said Maj. Gen. Michael Oates, 10th Mountain Division and current Multi-National Division – Center commander.
In June 2007, al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack in written postings and a propaganda video posted on extremist websites. Later that month, Coalition forces discovered some personal effects of Jimenez and Fouty, including their identification cards during a raid of a suspected AQI safe house near Samarra, Iraq.
In October 2007, Coalition forces recovered weapons issued to Jimenez, Fouty and Anzack in Fetuah, Iraq. The following month, video evidence depicting weapons and equipment taken from the captured Soldiers was discovered in Iskandariyah, Iraq. Each new finding gave intelligence experts more clues and more suspects, some of whom provided key names and information.
In November 2007, Task Force Marne, then in charge of Multi-National Division – Center, formed a Missing & Captured operations team to maintain continuity in the search efforts as the 2nd BCT, 10th Mtn. Div., prepared to return home.
The Missing & Captured cell fused the intelligence efforts of several coordinated sources. This included the collaboration of key unit brigades on the ground, the Personnel Recovery Division at Multi-National Force – Iraq, and analysts from multiple agencies, to include: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Intelligence & Security Command, National Security Agency and the U.S. Central Command.
The cell also took charge of conducting analysis and targeting suspected individuals involved in the attack.
Talking to the population and working with Iraqi counterparts assisted Coalition forces in gathering material that would lead them to some of the insurgents believed to be directly linked to the ambush and capture.
“We had a number of people detained; we know were involved and we had a number of other leads that pointed to other people we believe were involved,” said Lt. Col. Michael Ryan, the staff judge advocate at the MND-C Headquarters.
Throughout the course of a year’s search, over a dozen key people with information were detained or captured. Others with known criminal and terrorist ties chose to fight and were killed by Coalition forces intent on capturing them to gain more information.
During the winter of 2007 and early 2008, Coalition forces detained and questioned sources who eventually led them to three people alleged to know the Soldiers’ exact location.
Throughout the month of June, the 4th BCT and the 3rd BCT, 101st Airborne Division, continued to engage Iraqi citizens for information of AQI in their communities, gaining valuable information on terrorist activities and movements in the area.
On July 1, Coalition Special Operation Forces captured a reported leader of multiple AQI cells south of Baghdad. The captured leader, linked to facilitating suicide bombers for attacks in Baghdad, was believed to know the missing Soldiers’ whereabouts. Initially telling Coalition forces he knew where Jimenez and Fouty were buried, it was not until July 3 that the AQI leader disclosed the location.
On July 8, the AQI leader led Coalition SOF and Soldiers from the 4th BCT to the site where the Soldiers secured the area. Once on site, however, the AQI leader could not determine the exact location but led Coalition SOF to another suspect nearby he claimed had information about the burial site.
Coalition forces located and detained the suspect who, after identifying the original burial site, led them to another nearby site where he claimed he had moved the remains. Upon searching the area, Coalition forces discovered the remains and various equipment and clothing of Sgt. Jimenez and Pfc. Fouty.
“This was definitely a joint effort of many units within and outside of Multi-National Division – Center that led to the recovery of these two warriors,” said Lt. Col. Richard Ruffcorn, officer in charge of the Missing & Captured cell at the MND-C Headquarters.
On July 9, a Criminal Investigation Division forensics team and an investigative officer from MND-C Headquarters traveled to the burial site, located nearly 20 kilometers south of the May 12 ambush site, to survey the area and collect evidence. Later that day, the remains of Sgt. Jimenez and Pfc. Fouty were transported by mortuary affairs personnel to Camp Victory, south of Baghdad and prepared for transportation to the United States. At 10:51p.m., following a ramp ceremony honoring the fallen Soldiers, the airplane departed with Sgt. Jimenez and Pfc. Fouty aboard, headed for Dover Air Force Base.
Arriving in Dover, Del., July 10, the remains were transported to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology where a medical examiner analyzed and confirmed they were Jimenez and Fouty. Shortly after positive identification was confirmed, the families of Jimenez and Fouty were informed by uniformed officers of the U.S. Army.
“I would have to say I consider it an honor to have been involved in the recovery of these two Soldiers,” Ruffcorn said.
The quest to find Sgt. Jimenez and Pfc. Fouty was a study in commitment and teamwork, with every service, unit, and individual Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, and civilian who has been involved in their recovery playing a part in its success. Yet their mission is not complete.
“We look forward to working together with the Government of Iraq to bring the criminals
July 13th, 2008 at 9:31 am