Suicide bombing is a new phenomenon to Iraq, introduced in the wake of ‘Shock & Awe’ and the target is primarily police, who have the tenuous task of building a democracy under foreign occupation. The bombers intentions are destabilization of the peace initiative by inciting civil war. Therefore, when a civilian car failed to stop at a checkpoint and opened fire on police, injuring one and killing another, security officers must have been delighted when the two ‘insurgents’ were apprehended and taken to jail.

Disguised as Musab al-Zarqawi and Osama bin Laden, when its not even Halloween, the suspects turned out to be British elite special forces. Their arsenal included machine guns, anti-tank missiles, explosives and a remote control detonator, not the regular kit of SAS as reported by the BBC, but the weapons of terrorists! Sheikh Hassan said, “We believe these soldiers were planning an attack on a market or other civilian targets and thanks be to god they were stopped and countless lives were saved.” Amen!

Caught with their pants down, these terrorists were about to get some ‘special treatment’ and I don’t mean the sort reserved for prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The militia could have extracted vital intelligence from them, but Brigadier John Lorimer had other ideas and ordered British troops to assault the police station. Six Warrior tanks “accidentally” and illegally demolished a wall in the compound to spring the Commandos from captivity, letting one hundred and fifty inmates escape in the process. Riots erupted!

By this standard, Muslims have a right to blow a hole in Belmarsh Prison and release detainees held without charge for three months. The Governor of Basra, Mohammed al-Waili condemned the action as “barbaric, savage and irresponsible” but the fiercest criticism Conservative defense spokesman Michael Ancram could muster was, that the government is guilty of “uncertainty” over its strategy in Iraq. Then the coverage became “confused” by a “succession of fast-moving events and conflicting reports.”

Jon Snow looked embarrassed, lying on Channel4 News saying, “the soldiers were kidnapped by Shiite militiamen” and Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Collins, who retired when he should have been court martialled for torturing innocent Iraqi’s, obliged the media with its propaganda claiming, Mehdi extremists are sponsored by Iran. So, the story was twisted into ‘our boys’ being ‘rescued from executioners’ with Iran as the instigator who deserves decisive reprisals in the preemptive war against terror.

Judging from the undistorted facts, it is evident that many massacres in Iraq may also have been undercover military operations and children enticed by sweets to army humvees, appealing to hearts and minds, are frequently the victims of these callous ‘suicide bombers.’ But while Islam is unjustly slandered with a murderous reputation, the Coalition, far from spreading freedom and establishing stability in the Middle East, are succeeding in the exact opposite, which was obviously the original plan.