Sniper Videos from the Iraqi Resistance

Antiimperialist Media
Sniper of Iraq (2009)

Islamic Army in Iraq

Baghdad Sniper 1 (2005)
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Baghdad Sniper 2 (2006)
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Baghdad Sniper 3 (2007)
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Baghdad Sniper 4 (2008)
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Jaish al Naqshabandiya

Iraq Sniper 1 (2008)
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Iraq Sniper 2 (2008)
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Iraq Sniper 3 (2009)
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Iraq Sniper 4 (2009)
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Iraq Sniper 5 (2009)
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Jaish al Mujahedin

Jaish al Mujahedin – Grandsons of Saad 1 & 2

Le message, diffusé sur le site El-Eekhlas, considérés comme canal habituel de l’organisation terroriste, s’apparente à un avertissement sans précédent pour les vies de Wolfgang Ebner et d’Andrea Kloiber.

L’AQMI précise en effet que Vienne sera tenue pour responsable des vies et “du sort indéterminé” des otages sans autres précisions.

Mis en ligne quelques heures après l’expiration de l’ultimatum fixé par les ravisseurs, il plonge également le gouvernement autrichien dans une grande désillusion tant Vienne apparaissait confiante sur l’avancée des pourparlers qu’elle estimait encore hier seulement interrompus.

Le communiqué demande également la libération sans condition d’un couple de musulmans qui auraient été arrêtés en Autriche en septembre 2007.

Le communiqué intervient quelques heures après l’expiration, dimanche à minuit, de l’ultimatum lancé par l’AQMI. Deux précédents ultimatums, fixés au 16 et au 23 mars, avaient été repoussés.

Les deux otages se trouveraient à la frontière entre le Mali et l’Algérie. Ils s’étaient fait enlever après une escapade en voiture dans le sud tunisien.

Selon nos informations, les autorités autrichiennes demanderaient une “preuve de vie” des otages, enlevés le 22 février dernier, sans avoir obtenu satisfaction à ce jour.

Par ailleurs, le site El-Ekhlas informe également d’une version française et italienne de son forum à paraître d’ici quelques jours.

Source : El-Eekhlas

I don’t often write about Islamic extremism. This is partially due to the fact that I am not secretive about where I live and who I am and I have bad dreams about being fit for an orange jumpsuit and turning up in a grainy jihad snuff film on the internet. Another reason for this, however, is that it is too broad a topic to try to tackle in a casual manner and would require an entire blog dedicated to just that. However, sometimes things come across my desk that I can’t help but to address – if only briefly.

Today I was presented with two topics of opportunity that I painted an interesting dichotomy worth exploring a little deeper – that being the two sides of Islamic extremism. On one hand you have a scattered and angry movement that is lacking in any real focus but is intent on simply causing as much harm to “infidels” as possible. On the other hand, you have the focused, precise movement who seem to have somehow combined extremism and a more “noble” patriotic cause.

To start with, we can look at the “wild” side of extremism. This came across my desk in the form of “Azzam the American’s“  (Adam Gadahn) latest little tirade against the “evils” of his former home. In his video, Gadahn calls for violence against President Bush as well as a release of all Muslims from American captivity “regardless of their crimes” under threat of jihad against the American people. He also makes statements about America being defeated . He specifically states:

“The first question Americans might ask is: has American really been defeated? The answer is yes and on all fronts.”

To which I can not rightly figure out just what on earth he is talking about. How have we been defeated and just how does he define “defeat?” It is this sort of hollow rhetoric that bothers me about this end of the extremist spectrum. They don’t make sense and they lack any real focus. Chaos and death seems to be the end goal and the justification for these things seems to be murky at best. This makes them dangerous and unpredictable as they are more driven by some sort of peculiar ideology more so than anything actually tangible.

On the other hand, there is an even more dangerous side out there; yet it is a side that I have a hard time condemning. Why? Because I am fiercely patriotic and I can see where these people are coming from. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t condone violence – especially against American troops – but I do not fear these Muslims because they are not the ones who advocate for random death and chaos, nor are they the people who would come here to carry out their “mission.”

Who are these people? One of them is “Juba” the possibly mythical “Baghdad Sniper” who fights for his own people and land. In his own words:

“I am not a criminal…. I am not bloodthirsty…

I just defend our land you invaded…defend our children whom you stole their happiness and their right to live in peace.”

It’s difficult for me to condemn a statement like that despite the fact he is taking action against our troops. After all, I would gladly take up arms against anybody who were to invade my homeland. The difference is that I would not blur the line between patriotism and religion which is a fatal flaw in “Juba’s” arguments. It is difficult to be taken seriously when you can’t separate these things and it adds to the arduous task of trying to show the world that Islam isn’t all about violence. After all, why not simply claim that you are fighting for your country? Patriotism is a far more understandable and respectable cause than jihad. If what “Juba” is claiming is true:

“If you came as visitors we would make you leave happily.

Yet, if you come as invaders, we will make your families pay for what you did to our families.”

Then it puts him strides away from “Azzam the American” and his counterparts, yet they are both lumped together in the public eye because they share the [unfortunate] commonality of Islamic extremism.

Again, though, let me reiterate that I don’t condone “Juba’s” violence but I can’t help but to respect the fact that he not only acts out of patriotism, but he is also not calling for general death and chaos towards America or the American people. He is focused in his mission.

So herein lies the challenge of dealing with, analyzing or even writing about Islamic extremism. How can we address something that has such a broad dichotomy to contend with? On one hand, I would say that few things would please me more than finding the approximate location of people like “Azzam” and dropping ordinance on them until they’re below sea level and nothing but fine powder and ash. But where do you draw the line between people like that and people like “Juba?” Both fall under the “Islamic Extremist” tag, but they couldn’t be further apart in ideology and focus. Do we hunt down “Juba” like any other militant Islamic extremist, or do we treat him with the same respect as another soldier?

These are things we need to think about before we lay down blanket condemnations. After all, I doubt that I am the only one who would take up arms against an invading force if it ever came to that in America… And I doubt I am the only one who would advocate for precise and calculated acts of “patriotism” vice chaotic violence and scattered ideology.

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Very slick and very media savvy, the legitimate Iraqi Resistance releases its latest ‘Juba the sniper’ style video.

Baghdad sniper 3

http://www.baghdadsniper.net/en/index.htm

More USans and Brits need to see this to make them angry at how their governemnt sent the troops over there on a lie and are being picked off so easily. You control the telly, you control people (or more correctly,  enough to matter)

The USUK play a MASSIVE role in censoring footage like this for that very reason. They are also lie about the numbers of casualties as the IR spokesman says. I like to refer to this report as an example of how the US lies about its losses…

Title:  Where have all the young men gone?
http://www.the7thfire.com/Iraq_War/where_have_all_the_young_men_gone.htm

About US troops being buried in mass graves to avoid being recorded as a death. What a great way to treat the people you lies to and fight (for that lie) on your behalf, and of course, Reuters cameraman,  Mazen Dana, who discovered a mass grave dug by U.S. troops to conceal the bodies of their fellow comrades killed in Iraqi resistance attacks, and other graves shortly before the US shot and killed him.

The hight casualty rate in Iraq continues. Don’t believe the lies. And of course the casulaty rates of Iraqi’s who hever did a days harm to any USan eclipses all and any casualties of the invading hoards.

Hang Bush, Hang bLiar, Hang Azanr, Hang Little Jonnie Coward for theit filthy crimes.

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