al-Zarqawi helps out

[a_unique_person]

This must be why the information gathered from the laptop, thumbdrive, papers and other sources recovered from the rubble led to ONLY 759 arrests and ONLY 104 deaths of insurgents and ONLY 452 raids that are sure to net even greater information with which to destroy the terrorists with.

but you just go on and keep focusing on the negatives.

That's still not the major part of the insurgency, and, apparently, many of the local insurgents wanted him and his fellow foreigners gone anyway.

 

[The Fool]

So, what, you're saying it could be from Zarqawi's boss? Even better.

No I think Zep means it could be from Zeps Boss....Hmmmm, I sometimes worry about the people Zep associates with.

I had not heard about this laptop but if it still works after the bombing I'm sure the manufacturers may be interested in using that as a selling point..


and in conclusion....the death of this guy will make as much difference as the death of the next guy that is branded the Dr Evil behind it all....We seem to always need to have a figurehead, these mobs don't work on the "evil genius controlling everything" model....but thats the image we seem more comfortable with.

 

[Zep]

So, what, you're saying it could be from Zarqawi's boss? Even better.

What Fool said.

The "rigorous test of that claim" is raiding houses based on the info in the thumb drive. Sounds like it was pretty reliable. Whether it was Zarqawi's personal drive or something he just copied off another computer, sounds like it was a big haul.

Indeed! And a lot bigger haul than seems to be coming out of Gitmo, anyway. As long as it's not a decoy, let's hope they put the cleaners through this lot now.

Interesting that it survived a JDAM bunker-buster and he didn't. Do they make military-hardened thumb-drives? My laptop seems to break down when I do stressful things to it, like typing and moving the mouse and such. And my thumbdrive seems to need formatting every other day. What make and model was AZ's thumbdrive again? It seems much hardier than mine!

 

[Zep]

No I think Zep means it could be from Zeps Boss....Hmmmm, I sometimes worry about the people Zep associates with.

Hewlett Packard, IBM, Dell, folks like that... Will manage computers for money.

 

[RyanRoberts]

Interesting that it survived a JDAM bunker-buster and he didn't.

Sounded like he died of blast damage what with the collapsed lung, rather than being torn apart by shrapnel. Hard drives are hermetically sealed and a thumb drive is just a couple of little chips - both of I think would be pretty unlikely to be damaged by a pressure wave of the strength that caused his injuries.

 

[BPSCG]

Sounded like he died of blast damage what with the collapsed lung, rather than being torn apart by shrapnel. Hard drives are hermetically sealed and a thumb drive is just a couple of little chips - both of I think would be pretty unlikely to be damaged by a pressure wave of the strength that caused his injuries.

Agreed. There's an external floppy drive on my desk. I could probably stand on it, putting my 180 pounds on its 24 square inches, for 7.5 psi of pressure, without causing it any damage. My chest and stomach are about 225 square inches, so putting 7.5 psi on my chest and stomach would mean 225 x 7.5 = 1,687 pounds just between my collarbone and my belt.

 

[Dr Adequate]

Al-Rubaie said a laptop, flashdrive and other documents were found in the debris after the airstrike that killed the al-Qaida in Iraq leader last week outside Baqouba, and more information has been uncovered in raids of other insurgent hideouts since then.

This must be why the information gathered from the laptop, thumbdrive, papers and other sources recovered from the rubble led to ONLY 759 arrests and ONLY 104 deaths of insurgents and ONLY 452 raids that are sure to net even greater information with which to destroy the terrorists with.

We shoot ... we score.