Terrorists Aren’t Doing So Well In Iraq?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in The War On Terrorism, WarA private letter from an “insurgent” reveals cracks in the foundation.
From CNN:
Security forces seized the letter last week in a raid on a safe house that netted arrests and other items. Task Force Freedom, based in Mosul, issued a copy of the letter and a statement about it Saturday.The letter, from an insurgent named Abu Zayd, who calls himself “emir of Farming reform battalion on the west side,” cited the incompetence of Mosul’s emirs and the disobedience of other people in the network.
It discussed “the noticeable decrease in the attacks carried out by the mujahideen” and said that suicide bombings seem to be of more “quantity and not quality.”
Quantity over quality? I’m not exactly sure what that even means. They want to kill our soliders and innocent people with more style and sophistication?
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August 7th, 2005 at 6:38 pm
I think it means that there have been a lot of suicide bombers (quantity), but the number of people they kill (quality) is small in each attack.
August 7th, 2005 at 9:31 pm
Could be, but there are a LOT more soldiers getting killed recently. Perhaps that’s why we’re seeing the attacks become more succesful and bombs from Iran being shipped in?
August 8th, 2005 at 9:49 am
Perhaps by “quality” he is referring to attacks that have specific targets, or are designed to achieve specific objectives, as opposed to indiscriminate attacks that merely ratchet up the raw body count (i.e. quantity).