The Daily Jot
Big News Networks salivates, "In a significant development, the Lebanese army has arrested one of the wives of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al Bakr Al Baghdadi near the border with Syria when they tried to enter the country using fake identity." The woman is named in some reports as Saja Al Dulaimi. Some identify her as a Syrian, some as an Iraqi. All say she was arrested with a child -- some say a boy, some say a girl. Though only reported today, Gulf Daily News says the arrests took place "10 days ago."
In Iraq today, there are many problems.
One of the biggest is the sense of lawlessness. For Sunnis, that means their relatives disappear in the so-called justice system. Security forces show up to arrest Laith al-Mutlaq -- with or without an arrest warrant -- and Laith isn't home but his grandmother is or his wife or his brother or his child or some other relative. So the security forces haul that person off.
Where did they get that was okay?
Because US military commanders spent the first years of the Iraq War acting like thugs by basically kidnapping women married to Iraqi militants they were seeking.
That was illegal and unethical.
And it set the new Iraqi government down this road.
Very few people objected in real time or since.
The woman who is one of the wives of al-Baghdidi?
If she's done something herself, she should be arrested.
There's no way in the world the child has done anything.
It's doubtful the woman's done anything illegal.
(And in the midst of Barack's amnesty plan, don't try to pull the nonsense of 'she was trying to enter Lebanon illegally!')
The child? Boy or girl, a DNA test was performed.
I'm doubting seriously that the mother gave permission for that test.
That's another violation.
You can try to pretty it up all you want but these thug actions that should be called out.
If you're not getting it, listen to the boasting that the Oman Tribune reports on:
A Lebanese security source said the arrest was “a powerful card to apply pressure” in negotiations to secure the release of 27 members of the Lebanese security forces captured by militants in August near the Syrian border – a view shared by other Lebanese officials who confirmed the arrest.
What's taking place is a kidnapping.
These are thug actions.
The US government needs to condemn these actions but it won't.
It will, however, go out of its way to attack the Islamic State for kidnapping women.
I don't care who the woman married, I don't care who she sleeps with.
Unless and until she's broken the law herself, she shouldn't be detained.
Anyone detaining her without just cause based on her actions is a thug who is practicing kidnapping.
This is not acceptable and it is not normal.
The AP attempts to normalize it with paragraphs like this one:
If their identities are confirmed, Lebanon may use the pair as bargaining chips to win the release of soldiers and police taken hostage by the terrorists in cross-border attacks earlier this year.
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Big News Networks salivates, "In a significant development, the Lebanese army has arrested one of the wives of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al Bakr Al Baghdadi near the border with Syria when they tried to enter the country using fake identity." The woman is named in some reports as Saja Al Dulaimi. Some identify her as a Syrian, some as an Iraqi. All say she was arrested with a child -- some say a boy, some say a girl. Though only reported today, Gulf Daily News says the arrests took place "10 days ago."
In Iraq today, there are many problems.
One of the biggest is the sense of lawlessness. For Sunnis, that means their relatives disappear in the so-called justice system. Security forces show up to arrest Laith al-Mutlaq -- with or without an arrest warrant -- and Laith isn't home but his grandmother is or his wife or his brother or his child or some other relative. So the security forces haul that person off.
Where did they get that was okay?
Because US military commanders spent the first years of the Iraq War acting like thugs by basically kidnapping women married to Iraqi militants they were seeking.
That was illegal and unethical.
And it set the new Iraqi government down this road.
Very few people objected in real time or since.
The woman who is one of the wives of al-Baghdidi?
If she's done something herself, she should be arrested.
There's no way in the world the child has done anything.
It's doubtful the woman's done anything illegal.
(And in the midst of Barack's amnesty plan, don't try to pull the nonsense of 'she was trying to enter Lebanon illegally!')
The child? Boy or girl, a DNA test was performed.
I'm doubting seriously that the mother gave permission for that test.
That's another violation.
You can try to pretty it up all you want but these thug actions that should be called out.
If you're not getting it, listen to the boasting that the Oman Tribune reports on:
A Lebanese security source said the arrest was “a powerful card to apply pressure” in negotiations to secure the release of 27 members of the Lebanese security forces captured by militants in August near the Syrian border – a view shared by other Lebanese officials who confirmed the arrest.
What's taking place is a kidnapping.
These are thug actions.
The US government needs to condemn these actions but it won't.
It will, however, go out of its way to attack the Islamic State for kidnapping women.
I don't care who the woman married, I don't care who she sleeps with.
Unless and until she's broken the law herself, she shouldn't be detained.
Anyone detaining her without just cause based on her actions is a thug who is practicing kidnapping.
This is not acceptable and it is not normal.
The AP attempts to normalize it with paragraphs like this one:
If their identities are confirmed, Lebanon may use the pair as bargaining chips to win the release of soldiers and police taken hostage by the terrorists in cross-border attacks earlier this year.
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