It's nice to see that we are detecting buried roadside bombs **during** dynamic raids...that we are taking it to the insurgents in their Euphrates River Valley hideouts...that Iraqis are turning the terrorists in, etc.
It's all good.
Posted on 10/15/2005 5:09:11 PM PDT by FairOpinion
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2005 – Acting on intelligence sources and tips from concerned citizens, coalition forces detained 24 terrorists and killed at least 12 others in a series of raids near Ramadi on Oct. 14, officials said. The terrorists are suspected of being affiliated with senior al Qaeda leaders in Ramadi and the Euphrates River Valley.
In the first raid, coalition forces attacked a suspected terrorist safe house. They found a weapons cache with mortar rounds, small arms and ammunition.
Coalition forces then raided two additional suspected terrorist safe houses. There they found 10 mortar rounds buried in the road, all designed to protect the safe house entrance, officials said. Coalition forces bypassed these improvised explosive devices and moved to two nearby houses where numerous armed terrorists were seen entering.
As coalition forces closed in on the terrorists, they took fire. They called in close air support and returned fire. When they entered the safe houses they found six dead terrorists and a weapons cache with small arms and ammunition, officials said.
That weapons cache and the previously discovered weapons cache were destroyed. Moreover, while these raids were occurring, coalition forces simultaneously raided four other suspected terrorist safe houses.
Terrorists in the first of these suspected four safe houses engaged coalition forces before fleeing into a nearby tree line. They returned fire and killed one terrorist. They then used close air support to kill at least five more fleeing terrorists, officials said.
Coalition forces then raided the three other suspected terrorist safe houses, where they detained 22 suspects without incident. Coalition forces also stopped a suspicious looking vehicle with four males who had been seen roaming in the area. Two of these individuals were detained, officials said.
Coalition forces have used raids to capture and kill numerous terrorists, including two senior al Qaeda operatives -- Walid Muhammad Farhan Juwar al Zubaydi (aka Firas), (aka Abu Ziyad), (aka The Barberâ) and Ibrahim Muhammad Subhi Khayri al Rihawi (aka Abu Khalil) - in Baghdad on Sept. 24, officials said.
The Barberâ was responsible for altering the appearance of senior al Qaeda in order to help them avert capture. He did this by dying hair, altering hairstyles, and changing facial hair, officials said.
Abu Khalil was a close associate and executive assistant for the terrorist emir Abu Azzam. He also acted as Azzam's banker, storing al Qaeda funds so that they would not be confiscated in the event Abu Azzam ever was killed or captured, officials said.
Abu Azzam was al Qaeda's second-highest terrorist in Iraq. He was killed in a coalition raid in September.
In related news, coalition aircraft flew 62 close air support and armed reconnaissance sorties on Oct. 14 in Iraq. These missions included support to coalition troops, infrastructure protection, reconstruction activities and operations to deter and disrupt terrorist activities, officials said.
U.S. Navy F-18s provided close air support to coalition troops engaged with terrorists in the vicinity of Karabilah. F-18s dropped two bombs on buildings that the terrorists were using as firing positions.
U.S. Air Force F-16s launched air strikes against terrorist safe houses in the vicinity of Ar Ramadi. The F-16s dropped four bombs.
Air Force F-15s and F-16s and Navy F-18s provided close air support to Coalition troops near Al Hillah, Al Mansuriyah, Baquba, Basrah, Kirkuk, Madain, Mosul and Tall Afar, officials said.
More Iraq success stories in more ways than one: citizens are helping us, and we are killing Al Qaeda terrorists.
"Acting on intelligence sources and tips from concerned citizens, coalition forces detained 24 terrorists and killed at least 12 others in a series of raids near Ramadi on Oct. 14, officials said. The terrorists are suspected of being affiliated with senior al Qaeda leaders in Ramadi and the Euphrates River Valley. "
Now this is more like it. "Kills 12 terrorist". We have been taking to many prisoners lately. We need to up the kill to prisoner ratio like XXX to 1.
And, according to new rules of engagement, all killed terrorists will be buried in pig dung.
That should put an end to it!
We should literally bomb Syria with Pigs! Ahhahahahhah!
Coalition forces then raided two additional suspected terrorist safe houses. There they found 10 mortar rounds buried in the road, all designed to protect the safe house entrance, officials said. Coalition forces bypassed these improvised explosive devices and moved to two nearby houses where numerous armed terrorists were seen entering.
The story does not have a happy ending -- I didn't see "24 detained terrorists were shot while 'escaping' custody".
Thanks for the ping!
It's nice to see that we are detecting buried roadside bombs **during** dynamic raids...that we are taking it to the insurgents in their Euphrates River Valley hideouts...that Iraqis are turning the terrorists in, etc.
It's all good.
"It's nice to see that we are detecting buried roadside bombs **during** dynamic raids...that we are taking it to the insurgents in their Euphrates River Valley hideouts...that Iraqis are turning the terrorists in, etc. It's all good."
Indeed it is. Today as I traveled to my brother's home to pay visit to parts of my family and extended family. Included was my dear nephew Steven a Marine that return from Iraq, Al Anbar province on his second tour. I got some quality time on a short hike with him. What he shared with me as well as what he shared with me a week back when I talked for about an hour with him, I shall think out how best to present real live no bull$hit appriasles of a Marine with a Intel MOS that has literally walked along border areas between Syria and Iran in the North Western portions of Al Anbar, while being dropped in by a CH34, Ch54 chopper.
I will not embellish nor distort his view points. But of course will not divulge all of what he told me. Bottom line is Steve has been back in the states since October 1st. So his seven month in western Al Anbar which where reponsible for a 150 miles plus Syrian control as well as the Jordanian border represent a big chunk of Al Anbar activities in the last eight months. So since I am not a liar nor one to try to deceive, perhaps the few points I will bring out may give those at FR a better viewpoint in what to expect in the future in this region. It will not be all a rosey picture.
But I will try to be objective and just echo his feelings being in Intellegience and obviously required to understand just how best to direct defensive/offensive actions against known or perceived enemy, present some of his answers to my questions. So as the day proceed, I will compose a few tibits to share with our forums. I am tired at present due to a whole day of activities involving HS football games, meeting with family, and the required some 150 miles of driving. So I am not up to spilling a few tibits at this time. Hopefully in the next few days I shall include some things from a known real source, a nephew that has been in Al Anbar for the past 8 months with the Marine 2nd LAR Bn that was for eight months in no mans land, on the direct road to Damascus.
These successes are very good news indeed. My brother is going back to Iraq in a few days. Every terrorist our guys kill now is one less he will have to contend with when he gets there.
It will be his second tour. He was wounded by an IED in Baghdad on Christmas Eve, 2003, but recovered, returned to duty, and came home 7 months later. It was pretty hard on our mother, just as my tour in Vietnam had been more than 30 years earlier. She is a very tough lady, but she is over 80 now and I worry about her a lot.
My brother is 20 years younger than I am. I got shanghaid into baby-sitting him while I was in college. He was about a year and a half old then and fairly well-behaved, so I took him to the campus with me a couple of times (they allowed that kind of thing back then). I quickly discovered that a cute little blonde-haired tyke is a can't miss chick magnet.
I truly wish that I could go to Iraq somehow and watch over him again. At my age, though, he would be have to be watching out for me.
Rounding and killing bad guys ~ Bump!
Perhaps the underpants stretched over their heads kept them from being able to find their way out.
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