Al Qaeda and Haditha bombshell: What the MSM didn’t tell you
You won’t hear about this from John Murtha, but you’ll read it first on the Internet. Nathaniel Helms at Defend our Marines has an exclusive report on the battle in Haditha that the media ignored:
Buried in the mountain of exhibits attached to the once secret Haditha, Iraq murder inquiry prepared by US Army Maj. Gen. Eldon A. Bargewell is an obscure Marine Corps intelligence summary (see pdf) that says the deadly encounter was an intentional propaganda ploy planned and paid for by Al Qaeda foreign fighters.
Veteran military defense attorney Gary Meyers said he never understood why the Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents leading the Haditha criminal investigation didn’t “examine the linkage” between Al Qaeda, the local insurgency and the events at Haditha. Meyers was an attorney on the defense team that successfully defended Justin Sharratt, a Marine infantryman accused of multiple murders at Haditha.
The report – apparently overlooked by a Washington press corps awash in leaked Bargewell documents and secret Naval Criminal Investigative Service reports – shows that Marine Corps intelligence operatives were advised of the scheme to demonize the Marines by an informant named Muhannad Hassan Hamadi. The informant was snared by 3/1 Marines on December 11 2005 and decided to cooperate.
Helms reports that the attack was carried out by “multiple cells of local Wahabi extremists and well-paid local gunmen from Al Asa’ib al-Iraq [the Clans of the People of Iraq] that were led by Al Qaeda foreign fighters, the summary claims. Their case was bolstered by Marine signal intercepts revealing that the al Qaeda fighters planned to videotape the attacks and exploit the resulting carnage for propaganda purposes. Eleven insurgents involved in the attack are identified by name and affiliation in the details of the summary. All of them were killed or captured in the days immediately following the Haditha incident.”
Helms’ reporting is a damning indictment of the American media as propaganda tools and fools.
Read the whole thing.
Make sure to fax a copy to John Murtha:
814-539-6229 — District
202-225-5709 — Washington
And, of course, don’t look for the NYTimes to put this on the front page.
They are, as Jim Hoft so brilliantly put it this weekend, still grieving the loss of their “defining atrocity.”
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Blog buzz:
Jawa Report - “Help in spreading the propaganda from Democrats, notably Jack Murtha, and a compliant mainstream press was a bonus for the terrorists.”
Clarice Feldman: “Was Haditha a deliberate propaganda ploy by al Qaeda?”
LGF wonders the same.
Round-up at STACLU.
Allah has questions.
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It indeed is a damning indictment of the MSM. But it is an even more damning indictment of our Congress and some parts of the military.
We have little success of a future as a Nation if this continues.
I have a really hard time believing that this was utter stupidity. No one is that dumb. To me, it smacks of an all too cozy and complicit relationship with our enemies.
The timing is interesting. The flap about Israel shooting a young boy turned out to be a fabrication of Hamas. And there is a report floating around that our dear Jesse Macbeth was formerly known as Jesse al Zaid http://sweetness-light.com/archive/jesse-adam-macbeth-was-born-jesse-adam-al-zaid.
At the very least, we have more than our share of useful fools in this country. Or possibly, we are seeing tangible evidence of some within both the MSM and our government being in league with our enemies.
Thanks.
Just fyi: That Jesse MacBeth information is more than a year old and of negligible importance in the larger scheme of his crimes.
As Michael Savage has repeatedly pointed out, the Haditha case against the Marines has failed the smell test from day one.
US needs to get a grip on local enemies like Murtha, CAIR, ACLU…. and the likes; to fight the real enemy.
That al Qaeda is far more intelligent than the US Media should come as a surprise to no one.
Hopefully, with things like this coming to light, public opinion about Iraq will change for the better, as it becomes even more evident that Iraq is the central front in the war against AQ and their affiliates. If public support begins to rise enough, those in Congress who change with the polling data might get their collective heads out of their ***** and watch what they say and will rethink their positions.
When it does, we need to make sure that Americans never forget what Murtha and Reid, the N.Y. Times, Kos, ect. have said about our president and our military durring a time of war.
Once upon a time they would have gotten a free pass from the MSM. But not any more. The new media needs to make sure that they pay for their slander and that America never forgets.
What this tells me is we need a good cleaning of the upper level Officer corps in all branches of the service. It is apparent these Generals are on looking out for their careers and their retirement checks.
Marshall did it during WWII, we needed it in Vietnam and didn’t get it. The soldiers and this country need it today, but how much you want to bet we don’t get it.
Is this intel enough to charge Murtha with aiding and abetting the enemies of the United States?
How about one of our great Americans swore to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic show up for the old “cuff-and-stuff” on Sen. Murtha, who gave up both his Senate and his Marine oath to defend this great Nation long ago?
It saddens me terribly to see that the Democrats want the defeat of their only sworn enemy, President George W. Bush, so badly, that they would take lies and propaganda from al-Qaeda itself and throw their own military under the bus.
Sorry that this post is a little long winded……Please bear with it
The sad thing is that there are more miscarriages of justice within the military judicial system than most Americans will ever realize that won’t get the media or blogsphere attention.
Most of these crimes won’t even register as a blip on a judicial radar screen unless it really embarrasses the military.
Take a look at the ranks of the Haditha Marines, and you will see that they are junior personnel ranging from an officer (O-3) to enlisted personnel (E-2 to E-6), the perfect ranks that historically aren’t able to defend themselves from senior officers O-6 and above.
I really enjoyed my service, but my biggest problem was (and still is) that I saw alot of good men and women either lose their careers or take the punishment for crimes that they didn’t commit because a commanding or executive officer or Command Master Chief didn’t want to admit that they were wrong for going after one of their troops.
The day I checked out of my final duty station in 2006, I showed my CO the reason why she lost her case against me (and two other personnel)that was going through the SCM process-Fabricated evidence by an PO2/E-5 and if my attorney had some intestional fortiitude, that PO2 would have been busted down to SN/E-3, and shown the door—The same kind of punishment three Sailors were facing (one PO1/E-6, and two PO2/E-5’s).
In case someone is wondering why the PO1 didn’t go after the PO2-Its a no-win situation; the PO2 has a Bronze Star, and Purple Heart and basically was almost able to get away ruining the careers of three personnel.
By defending ourselves; we paid the price for it and received the worse thing they could do to us-a Page 13 entry and each of us refused to sign it as a means of protest against the command. The command could not risk losing face by not punishing us in some way, and the Page 13 entry can be an effective way to keep personnel in line-especially if they are going up for CPO/E-7 or a program that is decided by a selection board.
This case was one of many that occured during my final three years in the Navy, and there are alot of other examples that would make your blood boil. Of course, I also saw other situations during my career that made me question the fairness of the military judicial system and for the time being, I will let those situations rest…
For two of the guys; they eventually transfered on to other duty stations (haven’t heard from them and hope they are doing well), for the PO2 caught fabricating evidence-I heard he medically retired and went home.
As for me-I retired, blog on MM, send letters to the editor and various authors on TH, and go to college full time to fullfill a goal and dream that I started back in 1990.
Take care and Godspeed……
GSP
Just like gunslinger I have seen Staff Judge Advocates (JAG) misuse their authority more than once in my time in the Air Force. We had one at Travis AFB that was on a mission to hang anyone out to dry on Fraternization (supervisor having relations with a subordinate) or Adultery charges (it is a crime in the Military). Both of these offenses have been known to disrupt good order and discipline. We later found out his wife had screwed around on him and it explained the great joy he expressed in pursuing those that were accused of such an offense.
I will admit most offenses that go to a Courts Martial usually find the defendant guilty of the offense they are charged with. I do remember one case while stationed at Osan AB, South Korea a young Airman was charged with rape. It cost his family over $10K to bring over a lawyer to prove his innocence. Once the facts came out in the court it was discovered the young lady had not only consented to sex, but there was another couple in the room also engaged in sexual relations at the same time. The young lady was married and also active duty and was probably trying to avoid the threat of an adultery charge herself. The worst part is the young Airman had to return to Osan AB to be charged and tried after he had been reassigned to a new base in the states. We were not very impressed with the JAG after this went to trial and most people treated him like a leper after the facts came out in this case. He should have received a reprimand as a minimum for his misconduct.
The case with Haditha is a slam dunk now that the facts are coming out in the light. The JAG must have had all of this evidence from this incident and to even charge these young Marines after receiving the Intel from the field should have ended the investigation as an unfortunate case of contact with the enemy resulting in collateral damage causing the deaths of civilians the enemy was hiding behind. I used to love it when a Military Evaluation Board would sit down with their cups of coffee looking at computer print outs spending hours second guessing how an aircrew should have responded to an emergency situation. When stuff is hitting the fan your training kicks in and if you’re lucky you respond automatically applying that training and if all goes well you live to talk about it later. The JAG in this case needs the book thrown at him/her for smearing these young people. The MSM and a certain member of Congress should be charged with treason and sedition playing into the hands of the enemy and providing aid and comfort to their cause.
Sorry about the long post also, but most civilians don’t have a clue about Military Justice and if they did it would be shocked on what constitutes a crime in the US Military.
As usual once we get the whole story and get to see all the information for ourselves we discover the injustice and falsification the MSM was heaping on a group of military personnel.
Of course, just as with a certain group of congressional members, who also disparage and condemn the military, there will be no forthcoming acknowledgement of these facts, let alone an apology for prejudgement.
It makes me irate that we keep seeing this happening over and over.
The other thing that makes me upset is that the sheep in this country just eat it up and keep buying these traitorous newspapers and watching the biased media TV without ever questioning what they are told.
Time was that a journalist went out and investigated and gathered facts and verified those facts and then wrote their story. No more. The rush to the presses without checking out anything is a direct follow on to their biased agenda that drives their rush to judgement, facts be damned.
America has always stood not only for freedom and justice in the world, but just as importantly we have stood for the truth … no matter where the chips fell.
Give us all the facts and let us make up our own minds instead of continually serving up propaganda from our enemies.
Thanks Michelle for continuing to bring us the information they try to keep from us.
Thanks Michelle et al for covering this. I don’t expect to see it in the MSM.
It would be great to see a compendium of “how the info war was lost” come out. (I know it probably sounds callous to suggest that someone else devote the effort it takes to write a book, it would be good to have an authoritative historical document)
You’ve got the photoshopping, “my union made me come to this protest”, photographers running around with insurgents, Joe Wilson’s politically-motivated lies, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, Jamil Hussein, Haditha, and how many other goofs and outright deceptions that have served not only to reduce American morale, but also bolstering the enemy and costing American troops’ lives.
The whole “we’ll believe insurgents before writers like Michael Yon” (for example, not to discount the others) thing seems like bizarro world.
It amazes me that the MSM would rather continut to lose readership/viewership than report on things that would hurt the dems.
Apparently they’d rather see socialism and the fairness docrtrine fix their problems that act like an actual capitalist enterprise.
And hopfully this little tidbit of information is not lost on whoever runs against Murtha next year.
This makes me sick. No one has heard from our Marine in Iraq in 3 wks and I think they must wonder why they are there.
Members of the military: Guilty whether innocent or not
Terrorists: Misunderstood
Terrorist enablers (Murtha et al): we don’t dare say they’re not patriotic
It’s no wonder the enemy believes they can defeat us
Military service should be a requirement for citizenship and voting rights. For everyone. Period.
There’s not a person in this country that can’t fill some type of job in the military.
That would reduce the number of people bad-mouthing military personnel, it would ensure border security (we put the extra people on the border to patrol it), and it would allow only those who’ve paid the price the right to decide what direction the country goes in, not some whackjob in California who thinks the spotted-speckled swamp rat is more important than a water treatment facility, and hasn’t bathed in 6 weeks.
It seems to me that the country was alot better off when the majority of Congress (and especially the President) all had military service. Not so in the Clinton era.
Mr. Vibe~
Good luck with the Starship Troopers view of citizenship. Ain’t never gonna happen. The left won’t ever stand by while the actual military is tasked with guarding our borders (they’d say it violates posse comitatus), and they don’t like the military to begin with, so why would they allow it to grow to a size to get that many people to serve (in whatever capacity). Clinton gutted our military, and they types of wars I expect we will be fighting aren’t the big set-piece battles against nation states like WWII - it’s against guerilla, non-state actors, which takes a different type of military. Yes, we need a bigger military (to be prepared to deal with additional threats, like Iran, for example), but I don’t know that one the size of our WWII military is necessary.
Your right Ladybug, I know it’s just wishful thinking, but a guy can dream can’t he?
Good luck with the Starship Troopers view of citizenship. Ain’t never gonna happen ,
There are a few things in that movie that place it outside the realm of reality (besides the big bug aliens.) Like a one world government, which I’m sure the UN would just love. Also, you had to have service to be allowed to have children, which is just wrong on so many levels I don’t even want to discuss it.
Although it was a very entertaining movie.
Just to clarify, that movie wasn’t the source of my wishful thinking. My 8 years Navy service during the Clinton years got me thinking like that.
Starship Troopers-Great book from the late Robert Meinlein (sp?) and he went into more detail on the responsibility of citizenship.
A citizen has more invested in their country because they have served and protected it. Hense, this is why veterans that vote regularly appreciate what it took to get the right to have a say in the government.
Is it any wonder why democrats fear military personnel, veterans and talk radio?
We are what they fear the most-
Educated, opinionated, passionate, patriotic, and very well informed electorate.
Calling murtha-your apology is waiting!
And yet we are still winning, just goes to show how good our men and women in the US Military really are. Even with the MSM, half of congress and the entire nutroots stabbing them in the back at every opportunity they still manage to win.
It must be killing those traitors that they cant turn Iraq into another Vietnam.
This story is a perfect example of how the domestic left and the foreign enemy claim to despise each other, yet end up shoulder-to-shoulder.
Both are opportunists. Both think they can use the other to get what they want. Both have rather hazy strategic objectives, but well-defined tactical ones: e.g., American military defeat, the downfall of the current US administration and isolating Israel.
The trouble is, when achieving satisfactory tactical outcomes becomes the “strategy” itself - and is unmoored from any kind of over-arching ethical or moral principle - there’s no telling who you might end up standing next to:
- Mr. Reid, meet Mr. bin Laden.
- Mr. Zawahiri, meet Mr. Murtha.
- Mr. Zarqawi, meet Ms. Pelosi…
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” was the mortar that held the Western Allies and the Soviet Union together in WWII: their distrust and dislike for each other was temporarily put aside because their mutual hatred of the common enemy was stronger.
Similarly, the present-day Alliance of Convenience between the Left and the Islamists is how you see Democrats declaring the war “lost” and demanding retreat in the face of the enemy, while you get Osama bin Laden endorsing Noam Chomsky and chiding the Democrats for their political ineffectiveness.
This Alliance of Convenience is why, if you take statements from al Qaeda and Democrat party leaders and mixed them up without attribution, it’d be challenging to distinguish who said what.
War and politics make for strange bedfellows, indeed.
There may have been a time when Murtha was a patriotic soldier who served his country well. I thank him for his past service.
Notwithstanding his past record, it would seem that, with his mind in old age, those days have sadly been lost. He is nothing more than a tool for the chicken left, propped up because his Marine record is supposed to make him human Kevlar.
Here’s an analogy I think all music-lovers can understand:
“Van Halen I” was perhaps one of the best rock albums produced. Yet, the same band managed to make “1984″ with a bunch of synthesizer crap–then they kicked out David Lee Roth and brought in Sammy Hagar. A series of feel-good lovey-dovey rock “ballads” ensued–and the sellout crowds turned away from the sellouts.
I’m turning away from Jack Murtha. He is to today’s Marine Corps what Hagar was to Van Halen. Oil and water.
“Military service should be a requirement for citizenship and voting rights. For everyone. Period.”
No Mister Vibe, I don’t want my family members to serve next to a bitching, crying, complaining little liberal piece of dog droppings who’ll run away at the first shock or refuse to fight. The all-vollunteer military ensures that only the best of our young people get to serve and reap all the benefits of that service.
I do want to take the time to thank Michelle and all of you for that part of your taxes which goes to my retirement from active duty, it is the one physical reminder of the people’s gratitude for the years myself and my family sacrificed for the United States. Unlike the filth ridden liberals, I will strive to the end of my life to make sure that my contribution to my country remains loyal, honest and untainted by drugs, criminality and liberal sickness.
“Tools and Fools”
Perfect. It should be the tagline right under “The New York Times”
Murtha - dirtbag.
gunslingerpatriot said:
Add to that the fact that military service generates a heightened BS detector and you are right on my friend.
Starship Troopers, which I read in serial; form in 1959, was Heinlein’s opus on social responsibility.
“…characters engaged in debates with their History and Moral Philosophy teachers, who are often thought to be speaking in Heinlein’s voice. The overall theme of the book is that social responsibility requires individual sacrifice. Heinlein’s Terran Federation is a limited democracy with aspects of a meritocracy based on willingness to sacrifice in the common interest… explicitly made contrast to the democracies of the 20th century, which according to the novel were flawed (and collapsed) because “people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted… and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears.”
Ah, umm, sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Which political philosophy espouses Nanny State ideals?
That really sums up the MSM and Murtha.