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August 19, 2005
Way to go, terrorists
What's with terrorists? I mean, what's their deal? I'm talking about how they go around claiming responsibility for stuff. For example, today some terrorists in Jordan fired rockets at a US Navy ship docked in Aqaba. But, their missiles missed and ended up killing a Jordanian soldier. That is tragic enough, but they didn't exactly kill anybody they were trying to kill. To me, this does not seem like cause to gloat. If I was in charge of a terrorist organization, I'd be like, "you idiots! Now let's lay low and maybe nobody will know this was us."
But instead, the Abdullah Azzam group had this to say:
"A group of our holy warriors ... targeted a gathering of American military ships docking in Aqaba port and also in Eilat port with three Katyusha rockets and the warriors returned safe to their headquarters."
Oh, they targeted them? Good job, dumbasses. You guys missed! Anybody can target something, and anybody can pick up some rockets somewhere. But to do actual damage? That takes skill, and it's not worth gloating in a statement when you don't actually do anything.
Posted by oz115 at August 19, 2005 08:22 AM