How's the war on terror going now that we've invaded Iraq and Hezbollah is declaring Jihad ?

Question

How it works we invade Iraq we declare a war on terror ? The terrorist factions within the middle east declare Jihad ? They have nothing to lose they don't care about sanctions or rules that soverign nations live by so how does one negoiate with them ? They use civilains as sheilds ? Now the United States is on record of course claiming the goals that brought them into Iraq were unrealistic.

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These are all excellent answers thankyou for taking them time. It will be hard to decide.

Answer 1

Actually, I think it's totally mislead to think terrorism can be eradicated by military solutions. Islamic Terrorist organisations like the Hezbollah will find volunteers for suicide bombings as long as Israel and the USA refuse to recognize Palestinian people's right for a sovereign territory.
You bet that many of the lebanese whose children, brothers, sisters, parents and friends got killed in the last two weeks now feel like joining the Jihad and that is quite legitimate.
By doing these bombings on civilian buildings, Israelians prove they're not any better than those who did 9/11. And those bombs were provided by the USA.

Answer 2

Everybody has something to loose. When we find a way, or maybe we already have, found a way, from any member of a suicide strike to not have any other member of his family receive any financial gain, the suicide strikes will begin to diminish and disappear.

I don't know what Deity demands war, but, obviously it is a false and non-existent supreme being. So, this is not a religious war. It is a war of oil and oil profits. The Kurds, Shites and the Sunni's are fighting to keep their 'fair' share of oil profits. If those profits could be distributed to every citizen of Iraq, regardless of religion, and enforced, the war in Iraq will diminish and disappear.

That whole thing with some nonsensical Jihad is just some way of making a declaration of war palatable to others within the supposed religion.

Members of the Muslim religion are honorable and wonderful people. The Insurgents we are fighting in Iraq are nuts, cowards and believe in a false and non-existent Deity.

Hezbollah is declaring a Jihad....hahahahaha.

Answer 3

Its going pretty good; but the American left doesn't want to see it or admit it.

a) We eliminated Saddams military in record time.
b) We helped the Iraqi people to elect their own government faster then ever before;
c) We've helped train over 100,000 police officers for Iraq (but they do need 200,000 - gee think that might take a few years?)
d) We got Syria to back out of Lebanon, and Lebanon held free elections,
e) Afghanistan now sends girls to school thanks to the new government we helped install there; and they had elections too.
f) Hezzbolah is on the ropes thanks to the US not playing cease fire pansie like the inept UN would.
g) Poor Iran and Syria don't dare back up the Hezbo's since we have about 150,000 Americans right next door.
h) Killed Saddams murderous kids that gave al queda a pass in Iraq before we got there; got Saddam on trial, killed zarkawi (by the way he was al queda from Afghanistan and was in Iraq before we were - HINT
i) Yeah we need to get Osama...due time.

Answer 4

Well most Republicans will tell you the war is going great and without a hitch, they figure that since we are in Iraq that somehow all the terrorists all over the world are just going to stop trying to attack us. Thanks to hard and dilligent work by ours and others' intelligence agencies, we have not been attacked on US soil, but heaven forbid if we did, most Republicans will probably blame it on Clinton or Kerry, or the fact that Americans criticise the president.

Answer 5

Yes I seen the news where He taped a message and called for all out Gihad... I thought he was spose to lead....Not hide and send out tapes. ( Like Saddam Did)
He will be found... No doubt in my mind about it.
In a rat hole like Saddam...While alot of inocent people lose their life --and what does a Normal brained civilian care about any Gihad---NOTHING....

Answer 6

I think the answer to this lies in the current oil price... Wasn't this the real reason Bush went in there in the first place?

Answer 7

Pawn takes pawn, check.

Answer 8

So what are YOU doing to help out, mouth?

Answer 9

Al-Zawahri Calls for Holy War on Israel

Thursday, July 27, 2006
CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader issued a worldwide call Thursday for Muslims to rise up in a holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza until Islam reigns from "Spain to Iraq."

In the message broadcast by Al-Jazeera television, Ayman al-Zawahri, second in command to Osama bin Laden, said that al-Qaida now views "all the world as a battlefield open in front of us."

The Egyptian-born physician said that the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and Palestinian militants would not be ended with "cease-fires or agreements."

"It is a jihad (holy war) for the sake of God and will last until (our) religion prevails ... from Spain to Iraq," al-Zawahri said. "We will attack everywhere." Spain was controlled by Arab Muslims for more than seven centuries until they were driven from power in 1492.

He said Arab regimes were accomplices to Israel. "My fellow Muslims, it is obvious that Arab and Islamic governments are not only impotent but also complicit ... and you are alone on the battlefield. Rely on God and fight your enemies ... make yourselves martyrs."

He also called for the "downtrodden" throughout the world, not just Muslims, to join the battle against "tyrannical Western civilization and its leader, America."

"Stand with Muslims in confronting this unprecedented oppression and tyranny. Stand with us as we stand with you against this injustice that was forbidden by God in his book (the Quran)," al-Zawahri said.

Kamal Habib, a former member of Egypt's Islamic Jihad militant group who was jailed from 1981 to 1991 along with al-Zawahri, said the al-Qaida No. 2's outreach to Shiites and non-Muslims was unprecedented and reflected a major change in tactics.

"This is a transformation in the vision of al-Qaida and its struggle with the United States. It is now trying to unite Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims and calling for non-Muslims to join the fight," he said.

Al-Zawahri wore a gray robe and white turban in the video. A picture of the burning World Trade Center was on the wall behind him along with photos of two other militants. One appeared to be a bearded Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks. The other was Mohammed Atef, also known as Abu Hafs al-Masri, a former top lieutenant of bin Laden who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan in November 2001.

The Arab satellite station did not transmit the entire tape, using instead selected quotes interspersed with commentary from an anchor.

An Al-Jazeera official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters said the full tape was about eight minutes long. The satellite channel aired only about half the message. It would not say how it received the tape.

"The shells and rockets ripping apart Muslim bodies in Gaza and Lebanon are not only Israeli (weapons), but are supplied by all the countries of the crusader coalition. Therefore, every participant in the crime will pay the price," al-Zawahri said.

"We cannot just watch these shells as they burn our brothers in Gaza and Lebanon and stand by idly, humiliated," he added.

The message was al-Zawahri's 10th this year. Bin Laden has issued five messages in a particularly active year of messages from the top al-Qaida leadership.

Al-Zawahri last appeared in a video posted on an Islamic Web site on the first anniversary of the train bombings in London. In the July 7 tape, he said two of the four suicide bombers in London had spent time in an al-Qaida training camp, preparing themselves for a suicide mission.

The two top al-Qaida leaders also paid tribute in June to the slain leader of their Iraq network, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in separate recordings. Many of their messages this year have dealt with current events in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia.

Another new audio or video message from bin Laden had also expected in the past week on the fighting in Gaza and Lebanon, according to IntelCenter, a U.S.-based independent group that provides counterterrorism information to the U.S. government and media. However, no messages have appeared on Islamic Web sites to announce the release.

Al-Zawahri said Muslims everywhere must rise up to attack "crusaders and Zionists" and support jihad "until American troops are chased from Afghanistan and Iraq, paralyzed and impotent ... having paid the price for aggression against Muslims and support for Israel."

Israel began an offensive on Gaza days after Palestinian militants captured an Israeli soldier on June 25. It opened a second front in Lebanon after Hezbollah guerillas killed eight Israeli soldiers and captured two others on July 12.