Al Qaeda And Its Sickening Brutality

Jeff Emanuel reporting from Samara, where he is imbedded with the Soldiers, tells of the capture of an IED/rape cell leader. The guy bragged about his AQ affiliation and gave graphic details of his cell's operations, beyond the IEDs, they randomly gang raped Iraqi women.

Like their hardline Islamist brethren in other nations – such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia, among others – the Islamic State of Iraq (or “ISI,” the name under which al Qaeda in Iraq has organized itself in this country) has built a reputation not only for committing acts of terrorism and brutality both against its members’ own countrymen and against the coalition, but also for being a proponent of the most medieval, fundamentalist interpretation – and enforcement – of what its leaders claim to be the laws of the Koran.