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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 18-Jan-07
CNN: Iraqi man was forced to become suicide bomber

Web Log - January, 2007

CNN: Iraqi man was forced to become suicide bomber

This helps us understand what's going on in Iraq.

A CNN International report today was about an Iraqi family man named al-Khaqani. He was kidnapped by terrorists, and secured into the drivers seat of a car loaded with bombs. Somehow (I didn't quite understand how from the report), the car was aimed at a crowd of people. However, the man was able to scream out the window that he was about to blow up and the people scattered. The driver was killed, and only one or two in the crowd were injured. The driver is considered a hero.

This is significant because of something that most people don't realize -- there are no Iraqi suicide bombers. This is never mentioned in the mainstream media reports, and you have to dig it out of original source documents, as I've done.

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I'm working on an analysis of what the war in Iraq is really about. The network and other mainstream media reporters apparently don't even know something as simple as whether al-Qaeda is Sunni or Shiite, so they don't have a clue. They just assume in their stupidity that it's exactly the Vietnam war.

However, the picture I'm increasingly getting is that the Iraq war is a proxy war between al-Qaeda and Iran. The ordinary Iraqi people do not want any part of a war, since the country is in a generational Awakening era, just one generation past the Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s. They're willing to take part in the war only if they're paid to do so, and they're not willing to get killed.

Therefore, the suicide bombers, who are mostly al-Qaeda, require people imported from other countries, mostly Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the Palestinian terrorities, three regions that are in generational Crisis eras.

At some level, this must be embarassing to the al-Qaeda terrorists, especially since our armed forces intelligence people are aware of it.

So I interpret the event reported by CNN to be an attempt by al-Qaeda to change the picture. By forcing an Iraqi family man to appear to be a suicide bomber (who, incidentally, would not be around later to tell what happened), al-Qaeda can make it appear that Iraqis themselves are more willing to be suicide bombers.

The mainstream media is acting completely shamefully over this whole thing. It's perfectly obvious that the terrorists are perpetrating one or two suicide bombings every day because they know for a certainty that the mainstream media will showcase them. And you can count on it -- every mainstream media newscast puts the latest suicide bombing on as the lead story, every time every day, without fail. It's just amazing to me what dupes these media people are, and how ignorant they are, as I've discussed before.

The CNN story should have mentioned the Iraqi suicide bomber angle, but if they're even aware of it, I'm sure they would have decided that to do so would be carrying water for the Administration. No, they're committed to carrying water for the terrorists and only the terrorists.

However, the story is potentially quite significant. It indicates a level of desperation on the part of al-Qaeda, and if it's repeated, then it indicates a significant new direction for the terrorists. (18-Jan-07) Permanent Link
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