May 13, 2004
by Reb Yudel |
The Forward has learned that the slain American had, during the past year, intensified his study and observance of Judaism, and taken to wearing tzitzit, or ritual fringes. His father, Michael Berg, mentioned that his son had a set of tzitzit with him in Iraq, in an interview with the Associated Press.Read the whole piece. Meanwhile, as Oliver Willis notes,The Islamic militants who executed Berg claimed to be followers of Abu Musab Zarqawi, the one-legged Jordanian terror master with links to Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network. As reported in March by the Forward, terrorism analysts believe that Zarqawi places a higher value on Jewish and Israeli targets than does bin Laden and his other associates.
Abu Musab Zarqawi, the man who killed Nick Berg, the man who has killed hundreds of Iraqis, could have been taken out long ago by President Bush - but he didn't do it because it would have hurt his case for war.That is, according to an NBC News report,
[L]ong before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger....As Willis says,Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.
My biggest gripe, to this day, against George Bush is that the terror attacks of 9/11 deserved a response where we hunted down Al Qaeda and their affiliated groups to the ends of the earth. Kill them, and kill them all. It started of okay in Afghanistan, and that should have been a launching pad for destroying Al Qaeda in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Europe and right here in America. Instead, he invaded and occupied Iraq - which took away resources from hunting Bin Laden and Al Qaeda and is now a royal mess.TrackBack
