A previously unknown Iraqi group has vowed to abduct and kill foreign and Arab workers in Basra. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8D648798-D497-4FDB-ADBF-FA88A4D0038C.htm Aljazeera aired a videotape on Monday from the "Altaf Martyrs Brigades" which particularly threatened Kuwaitis in the southern Iraqi city. The tape showed a group of masked men, some holding automatic rifles and one man reading a statement. "All workers in foreign and Arab companies in Basra, especially Kuwaitis, are targets for killing and kidnapping," the man said. "We strongly warn them against going into the streets of Basra." "These people are on par with American and British (troops). They are all the same," he said as the other masked men cheered and chanted "Allah Akbar" (God is Greatest). In ISRAEL: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0223/foa.php The ayatollahs of political correctness feed you numbers to back it up (Israel as a land of brutal murderers)—1500 Palestinians but only 500 Israelis killed in the last 20 months, they snicker. It's time we took a closer look at those casualty figures. The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) is doing just that. ICT, at the prestigious Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, is a think tank developing public-policy solutions to international terrorism. "According to data from Palestinian sources, 55 percent of the Palestinian dead were combatants," said Don Radlauer, an ex-New Yorker, who is building a casualty database at ICT. "And we rated all kids under 13 as non-combatants, even if they were armed when they were killed." On the Israeli side, statistics show that only 25 percent of the dead were combatants. The data on the number of women killed is even more telling. Radlauer said the findings "were not what we were expecting." "Less than 5 percent of all Palestinian casualties to date were female," he said, "while 30 percent of Israeli casualties were women." "Among the non-combatants killed, and again relying on Palestinian reports, we found that 7 percent were Palestinian women," he said. "In contrast, 37 percent of the Israeli non-combatant dead were women." Looking at solid numbers, the Palestinians report a total of 66 women killed as of the end of April. In the same period, 135 Israeli women died, all but three non-combatants. "But if you only look at non-combatants, excluding female suicide bombers and women killed in bomb factory 'work accidents,' etc., the number drops to 40 Palestinian women killed," Radlauer said. "Do the math—132 Israeli female civilians compared with 40 Palestinian women," he said. "That's more than three Israeli women killed for every one Palestinian." "Palestinian data on fatalities do not bear out the claim that Israel is attacking a civilian population in their homes," said Radlauer. It appears that if your a radical Islamic you get glorified for murdering innocents, but if your not your a murdering bastard.
I'm a little embarrassed about this, since I had promised to do something like this, but didn't, because it was time-consuming. So I get to read a clip from some blithering sockpuppet. I wish now I had taken the time, because the people who did do it are apparently first class dickheads. I still think it's an important point that the disparity between Palestinian and Israeli casualties is highly skewed towards the civilian side. For one thing, it provides proof that the infanticide - er, intifada - is more effective at killing Palestinians than Israelis. But reading some ************** **************** mother********er sum it up by saying "do the math" - hey, Radlauer. Shut the ******** up. You're not helping. I thought terrorists were supposed to be the scum of the earth. What is it with right-wingers that they insist on making that the standard of behavior?