Terrorist Nutcases Suck Too

I know that distinguishing a terrorist nutcase from a terrorist begs the question, but every group has its wackos. Apparently that also includes Al Qaeda. Some of the terrorists haven’t gotten the memo yet that they are only to hate Jews and Americans. They keep killing their fellow Islamic brothers. Even I know that it’s hard to maintain your numbers if you keep killing off your potential applicant pool.

It seems that Ali Raghead [I don’t know his real name and I don’t care] fancied himself an Islamic Messiah, called Mahdi. He’s supposed to die and rise again to judge good and evil. The only obstacle was the pesky Islamic clerics at Najaf who insisted in only hating Jews and Americans. So Ali Baba decides he needs to kill them so he can be the end all that ends all in Islam. He managed to get 700 village idiots to believe him and they were moving to attack the clerics on a big holy day. I don’t know which holy day but it was a big one. Kind of like Labor Day is bigger than Columbus Day I guess.

Well ole Ali Bibi Sheethead took his band of 700 thieves holed up in a compound of houses to smoke their cra…I mean get their marching orders when the US trained Iraqi Army showed up. Oops. I just have one word of advice - COMSEC! Now the kill rate was pretty slow. The initial reports show that 200 former Jund al-Samaa (Soldiers of Heaven) were killed in the 24 hour battle. That’s only one kill ever 7 minutes or so. But the IA will get better and more efficient with practice. About 100 are reported to have surrendered. There is no confirmation that 150 vacationing Frenchmen also surrendered. The Iraqi Army lost 5 and the US lost two helicopter pilots when they crashed. God rest their souls.

If you want to read the AP version of this action, you can find it here.