Saturday, November 06, 2004
Playing the Numbers Game
Before we go any further, NO, this is not about the US "election". Those numbers don't add up and to anybody with half a brain it is obvious that Bush/Cheney have stolen the election. There is plenty of hard evidence and data out there, and coming in all the time to prove what has transpired. It's not my immediate problem really. I am not American. I just feel sorry for the American public, in the same way I feel sorry for the Germans of the 1930's - People GET OUT - this is going to be BAD!
The Numbers Game I am referring to is the casualty lists coming out of Iraq. Now, remember that there is no credible media on the ground, so we only get the information we are fed. I have always had a keen eye for this kind of thing - it stems from a series of incidents I witnessed while working for Reuters back in 1980.
Now it is very hard to follow the US troop reports, because there are just so many. I am a British Passport holder (they don't give out English Passports - my true nationality), so I decided to watch and evaluate what was going on with just the British troops on the ground in Iraq.
Yesterday (Thursday 4 November 2004) British Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram announced that three soldiers of the Black Watch Regiment had been killed, along with an Iraqi translator, and a further eight injured in a suicide attack at a Black Watch run checkpoint. The suicide attack was in the form of a 'vehicle' bomb, so my guess is that the Iraqi Resistance fighter drove up to the checkpoint and BANG!
Ingram reported that this all happened at around 13:00 local time. Ben Brown of the BBC reports in his BBC website video from the scene that this incident occured 2 days into Operation Bracken - Monday 1 November 2004. He also reports that after the car bomb there was a continued attack with rockets.
Interestingly, the Iraqi Resistance also reports on what could be this incident:
"An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a British column in al-Mahawil at 2:30pm Monday. Resistance forces also fired RPG7 rockets, destroying a Landrover and moderately striking a British armored vehicle, killing two British soldiers."
Wait a second!!! "...killing two British soldiers."??? British Checkpoint or British Column?
Could it be that the Iraqi Resistance Reports are understating because they can't get clear evidence?
This must be very, very worrying for the Occupation military machine. Because on the very same day the Iraqi Resistance Report gives the following numbers (I added them up):
US Soldiers killed: between 99 & 101 (1 female soldier killed on a mineral water supply truck 13:00 at al-'Amiriyah).
US Marines killed: 21
US Special Forces killed: 3
US (non-American) Support Personnel killed: 7
Danish Intelligence Officers killed: 4
Iraqi National Guards killed: between 4 and 7
Badr Brigade Militia killed: 11
Iraqi Resistance killed: 7
Additionally, the Deputy Governor of Baghdad, Hatim Kamil 'Abd al-Fatth, and 6 of his bodyguard were killed.
US Soldiers wounded: between 17 and 19
Danish Intelligence Officers wounded: 1
Iraqi National Guards wounded: 7
Civilians wounded: 13
Kidnapped/Captured: 2 Iraqi National Guards, 1 American, 1 Nepalese and 2 Arabs.
I know that this is more fingers than I have to count on, but something seems very, very wrong here.
Sin
The Numbers Game I am referring to is the casualty lists coming out of Iraq. Now, remember that there is no credible media on the ground, so we only get the information we are fed. I have always had a keen eye for this kind of thing - it stems from a series of incidents I witnessed while working for Reuters back in 1980.
Now it is very hard to follow the US troop reports, because there are just so many. I am a British Passport holder (they don't give out English Passports - my true nationality), so I decided to watch and evaluate what was going on with just the British troops on the ground in Iraq.
Yesterday (Thursday 4 November 2004) British Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram announced that three soldiers of the Black Watch Regiment had been killed, along with an Iraqi translator, and a further eight injured in a suicide attack at a Black Watch run checkpoint. The suicide attack was in the form of a 'vehicle' bomb, so my guess is that the Iraqi Resistance fighter drove up to the checkpoint and BANG!
Ingram reported that this all happened at around 13:00 local time. Ben Brown of the BBC reports in his BBC website video from the scene that this incident occured 2 days into Operation Bracken - Monday 1 November 2004. He also reports that after the car bomb there was a continued attack with rockets.
Interestingly, the Iraqi Resistance also reports on what could be this incident:
"An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a British column in al-Mahawil at 2:30pm Monday. Resistance forces also fired RPG7 rockets, destroying a Landrover and moderately striking a British armored vehicle, killing two British soldiers."
Wait a second!!! "...killing two British soldiers."??? British Checkpoint or British Column?
Could it be that the Iraqi Resistance Reports are understating because they can't get clear evidence?
This must be very, very worrying for the Occupation military machine. Because on the very same day the Iraqi Resistance Report gives the following numbers (I added them up):
US Soldiers killed: between 99 & 101 (1 female soldier killed on a mineral water supply truck 13:00 at al-'Amiriyah).
US Marines killed: 21
US Special Forces killed: 3
US (non-American) Support Personnel killed: 7
Danish Intelligence Officers killed: 4
Iraqi National Guards killed: between 4 and 7
Badr Brigade Militia killed: 11
Iraqi Resistance killed: 7
Additionally, the Deputy Governor of Baghdad, Hatim Kamil 'Abd al-Fatth, and 6 of his bodyguard were killed.
US Soldiers wounded: between 17 and 19
Danish Intelligence Officers wounded: 1
Iraqi National Guards wounded: 7
Civilians wounded: 13
Kidnapped/Captured: 2 Iraqi National Guards, 1 American, 1 Nepalese and 2 Arabs.
I know that this is more fingers than I have to count on, but something seems very, very wrong here.
Sin
# posted by Sin Innuendo : 2:19 PM
