IRAQIS, GIS RAID 'QAEDA' TOWN

The New York Post ^ | Sept. 11, 2005 | Postg Wire Services

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September 11, 2005 -- TAL AFAR, Iraq — More than 5,000 Iraqi army and paramilitary troops backed by U.S. soldiers swept into this al Qaeda stronghold near the Syrian border yesterday, conducting house-to-house searches and battering down stone walls in the narrow, winding streets of the old city. Last night, Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari ordered the Rabiyah border crossing closed in an attempt to stanch the flow of terrorist fighters from Syria, about 60 miles from Tal Afar.

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As noted in a couple of earlier therads this week, it looks like we're beginning to make some real progress against the Islamofascists ink Iraq. This is another example.