Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, does he exist?

Does Abu Musab al-Zarqawi exist?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 13 81.3%

  • No.

    Votes: 3 18.8%
  • Total voters
    16
Real. Alive. Yes, but he becomes less credible by the day as we roll up his lieutenants. His chief car bomb maker was captured, along with his propaganda guy, and they admitted their roles in his organization. Watch the news. What else do you want, an interview by Barbara Walters?
 
IZinterrogator - Wanted to check with you as you are in the middle of this mess. How did this fella get the title of chief bomb maker? Is he someone designing more sophisticated stuff or something? I believe a lot of people back here may think a lot of the IED's are simple trip wires, and I am not so sure that is the case.

You could say I have a vested interest, as my oldest boy is due to move up from Camp New York any time, and may well be in transit with the 3rd ID.
 
Leaning on only stuff in the public realm as reported by the media (and not my own realm, because that is a felony ;) ), Abu Omar Al Kurdi, the car bomb guy, has confessed his responsibility for approximately 75% of all of the car bombs found in Iraq.

As for IEDs and homemade weapons, you would not believe how sophisticated some of the devices we find are. I can't think of anything that transmits a signal that has not been used as an IED trigger. I had a homemade shoulder-fired rocket launcher here once. It was made out of pipe and used a doorbell for a trigger. I wanted to keep it, but the division's museum curator took it for the collection. :(
 
Leave the weapons.

IZ, don't take the chance of taking weapons home without authorization. A company commander and some other soldiers from my battalion stayed behind in Baghdad while the rest of us came home for trying to bring back AK-47's. They had them broken down and poured in concrete to look like guidon stands. MP's put the the customs seal on the connex, and CID showed up a few minutes later, opened the connex, went right to the blocks of concrete and busted them open. Too many people knew about it and they were ratted out. I'm sure you've been given dozens of examples by your chain of command.
 
Thank you SSG MAC-I want to see everyone come home as soon as it is practical to do so. My kid Paul is a combat medic, been in 18 months and so far is pretty good at his job. I've taught him how to defend himself with weapons and smarts as much as I can.

He wants to be a pediatrician, met the woman of his dreams in AIT, and boy-howdy he knows how to pick a winner. The woman is good looking, great personality, and is also in the medical corps studying to be a nurse. I expect I'll have to worry about her when her time comes up too. Danged kids.......

Probably typical of most of the younger ones over there-I worry about the veteran soldiers on duty too. They have wives, families and all the stuff we take for granted here in the land of the Great PX. Wasn't easy going in single for me-can't imagine what its like for those who have to kiss their kids goodbye.

I gave up a leg for my service, and until I had to put my son on the plane, it never bothered me much. Can't run, but I could sure put on a uniform and guard something!
 
We were allowed to bring bayonets when I left. A division museum coordinator could be allowed to keep more, I wouldn't know.
 
The soldiers families have a tough job. They seem to be forgotten by the public alot of the time. They are making almost as many sacrifices. I had to report for active duty the morning after my wedding...some honeymoon! My wife did awsome while I was gone. My dad thought she was more support for them than they were for her. The support I had from home meant the world to me. It sounds like your son has a world of support waiting for him back home.
 
We were told to watch out for DBIED's. (Donkey Bourne Improvised Explosive Devise) That was the srangest one I ever heard.
 
No, he's the bogeyman, and if we just pull the covers over our heads he will go away and Mommy will have breakfast ready for us in the morning.
 
AFAIK they're not allowed to take jack home with them. Not even 'war booty' so to speak. Is this not true?
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(2) Importation Of War Souvenirs Or War

Trophy Firearms

The regulations [27 CFR 178.114(c)] provide that firearms determined by the Department of Defense to be war souvenirs may be imported into the United States by members of the U.S. Armed Forces under such provisions and procedures as the Department of Defense may issue.

For information regarding the classification of war souvenirs or trophies by the Department of Defense, see DOD regulations AR 608-4, OPNAVINST 3460.7A, AFR 125-13, and MCO 5800.6A, describing articles and material that are not considered war trophies and may not be kept or imported into the United States by members of the U.S. Armed Forces.

The aforementioned Department of Defense regulations list machineguns and other firearms coming within the purview of the NFA, regardless of the degree of serviceability, among the items which are prohibited from being retained and introduced into the United States by Armed Forces personnel.

The Customs Service is authorized to release a firearm without an import permit from ATF where a properly executed DD Form 603, Registration of War Trophy Firearms, is presented certifying that the firearm to be brought in has been classified as a war souvenir under DOD regulations. To be valid, the DOD Form 603 must have been issued during a period authorized by DOD.
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http://www.atf.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/complete.htm
 
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