Now that's in intriging paragraph. I'd love to know who this guy is so I'd know that finding him sprawled on a picture of Saddam means.
"Now that's in intriging paragraph. I'd love to know who this guy is so I'd know that finding him sprawled on a picture of Saddam means."
Could be as simple as this. The leader had voiced he no longer will support the various Baathist/Sadddam loyalist, including many how should I say it, former Iraqi officers, that live in the towns south and southwest of Baghdad known as the Triangle of Death area (TOD). So it was time for him to go. Our Army and Marines, alternately for the past two years have been performing cordon and seatch operations in this area, and we have an established FOB just north of the town of Al Mahmoudidya on route #8. Much of the Sunni/Baathist part of the insurgency has been operating out of this area parallel to what was going on in Fallujah. Fallujah no longer is an alternative for them, nor for the foreign terrorist to set up shop, so they must operate out of the dozen or so towns south of Baghdad in the TOD. Of course they also have moved northerly into Al Anbar in the many towns now being sighted in for attack by our Marine Corps., as you are aware of with operation Matador kicking off a few weeks back, and leading up to the just finished op Spear. There is much work yet to be done throughout Al Anbar province.