Fireworks Or Fortitude By Steve Schippert

In a village on the outskirts of Baqubah, the animals of al-Qaeda destroyed everything in sight and slaughtered that which possessed life, including the people and even the livestock. As Michael Yon describes in Bless the Beasts and Children, “The village had the apparent misfortune of being located near a main road—about 3.5 miles from FOB Warhorse—that al Qaeda liked to bomb. Al Qaeda had taken over the village.” They did not just kill the villagers, they mutilated them and beheaded the children in a horror that stretched over time. The bodies were at various stages of decomposition and decay.

This is our enemy. He is in Iraq, his self declared ‘central front’ against America and the “Jews and Crusaders” named in al-Qaeda’s 1998 declaration of war. He is in Pakistan. He is in Afghanistan. He is in Iran and Lebanon. He is in Indonesia and the Philippines. He is in Somalia, Algeria, Mali and Sudan. And he is in Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Morocco, Canada and the United States. He is wherever concealment or hospitality provides.

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