Posted on 05/29/2005 5:58:11 PM PDT by mdittmar
Iraqi police fought pitched battles with insurgents Sunday as thousands of security forces backed by American troops swept through Baghdad’s streets to flush out militants responsible for killing more than 720 people since Iraq’s new government was announced in April.
Insurgents lashed back—killing at least 30 people, including a British soldier—and a senior U.S. military intelligence official acknowledged there are few indications they “are packing their bags.”
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for nearly all the attacks in Internet statements that could not be independently verified.
In their biggest coup of “Operation Lightning,” Iraqi and U.S. soldiers arrested a former general in Saddam Hussein’s intelligence service who was also a member of his Fedayeen secret police during a raid in western Baghdad, the scene of some of Sunday’s heaviest fighting.
This is the Mother of all Battles-the War that Wiil Never End.
Iraq vs. the Muslim World. Iraq cannot win this. Not on their own, they can't.
Start killing off the Saudi financiers, the Iranian mullahs, the Syrian Baathists. The War on Terrorism has to be a War on Terrorism, or GW needs to STFU.
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