Iraqi Army Soldiers Taking Fight to Enemy

American Forces Press Service ^

[SandRat]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12, 2006 -- The Iraqi army took the fight to the enemy over the weekend, capturing an insurgent cell leader, detaining an improvised explosive device supplier and detaining suspected death squad members.

Coalition forces in Anbar province also killed three insurgents.

Yesterday, 8th Iraqi Army Division forces, with coalition advisors, conducted a raid near Suwayrah and captured the suspected leader of an insurgent cell. The cell leader is suspected pf being responsible for a car bomb attack in Suwayrah that killed nine and injured more than 50 Iraqi civilians. The cell is thought to have also coordinated an attack which destroyed an Iraqi army headquarters in Suwayrah. Iraqi forces detained four additional suspects during the raid.

Iraqi Army special operations forces, with coalition advisors, conducted another raid yesterday in Abu Ghraib to capture a criminal suspected of providing supplies for improvised explosive devices and munitions to a bomb-making cell in the area. The Iraqi soldiers confiscated several sniper and assault rifles during the raid and detained three suspects.

Near Ramadi, the 7th Iraqi Army Division conducted a raid Nov. 10 to capture members of an insurgent cell believed to be responsible for attacks in the area. The cell members allegedly are responsible for multiple coordinated attacks on coalition operating bases in and around the capital of Anbar province. The soldiers detained one suspect.

In a raid near Sadr City, Iraqi Army special operations forces captured a top-level death squad leader.

Authorities believe the man is responsible for widespread death squad atrocities in eastern Baghdad. Officials in Baghdad said the man controls multiple cells with hundreds of members. The cells conduct sectarian murder and torture, kidnappings, improvised explosive device attacks and other attacks and crimes against Iraqi civilians and Iraqi security forces. He also facilitates the flow into Iraq of weapons and explosives used to conduct sectarian attacks.

The Iraqis detained five suspects during the raid and confiscated six improvised explosive devices and Iraqi military uniforms.

Finally, coalition forces killed three insurgents yesterday in a thwarted attack against a coalition patrol in the Euphrates River city of Hit, Iraq. Six insurgents fired on the patrol, and coalition soldiers responded to the attack with gunfire, killing three of the insurgents. The other three fled the scene.

(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)

[SandRat]

FR WAR NEWS!

WAR News You'll Hear Nowhere Else!

All the News the MSM refuses to use!

[fishergirl]

Woooo hoooo! Good new from Iraq - put that in your crack pipe and smoke it, Howie Dean! You flamin' idjit!

[fishergirl]

I meant "news". (Our crazy dachshund ran in and jumped in my lap while I was typing.)

[JOE43270]

Thanks for posting this SandRat. This shows the people that won't listen that our people that are in country have gotten the job done training the Iraqis. I know they aren't done yet though those "Cut and Run Idiots" can shove off. God Bless ALL of our people that are in Iraq.

[paratrooper82]

WOW, good news from Iraq! Just after the election in which the democrats took power. Great back drop for the Dems' (good news from Iraq) when the Dems' start their cut and running from Iraq policy, with the support and encouragement from the MSM.

[TET1968]

Oh yeah, sure...the old "blame it on the crazy dachshund excuse".

You can't pull that with a 4 pound Yorkie.

[river rat]

At the slow rate we're killing "insurgents" - all Iraqi civilians will have been killed by the time we've killed 20% of the "insurgents"..

Perhaps the Democrats will see it in their interest to earn a reputation as "War Winners" and start killing Islamists on a scale that SHOULD have been going on for the past 3 years..

Hope springs eternal.

Semper Fi

[fishergirl]

LOL! You caught me!

[TET1968]

"Perhaps the Democrats will see it in their interest to earn a reputation as "War Winners" and start killing Islamists on a scale that SHOULD have been going on for the past 3 years.."

Rumor has it that the Ted Kennedy has been receiving Gov.funding for a top secret training center in Provincetown Mass. where some of the truly brightest liberals in the country have received grants to work on a program that promises some day.... pigs will fly.

[onedoug]

Plug in Vietnamese instead of Iraqi terms and place names, then holler "Woooo hoooo!"

[river rat]

Every time Ted (the swimmer)Kennedy flies ---- a pig IS flying..

Yeah, I know --- waiting for this crop of leftists who call themselves Democrats to pursue the war with vigor is insanely optimistic.....or delusional.

I just desperately want SOMEONE to fight this as a WAR, not a political side show.....with false "allies"..

Semper Fi

[sgtyork]

Trolls are out tonight.

[TET1968]

"I just desperately want SOMEONE to fight this as a WAR, not a political side show.....with false "allies".."

Unless we get hit again, here, with at least thousands of CIVILIANS killed, I'm afraid it's too late. I'm not trying to be a smart ass. This is the second time in my lifetime that the troops have been betrayed from within their own country...I'm beginning to believe that what ever happens, we deserve it.

[river rat]

I share some of your memories...

Some in America "deserve" what is happening....but our warriors, their families and our grandchildren don't...

It's times like this -- that make what the Iraqi are doing to their "internal enemies" understandable.

I guess we're still too damned civilized to execute our own "internal enemies".

Since civilization is a very thin veneer - perhaps it won't take too much more before some folks in this country decide to "make some bones" of their own...

Semper Fi

[TET1968]

"I guess we're still too damned civilized to execute our own "internal enemies".

Or at least hold them accountable for damage and loss of life their aiding and abetting causes, all so they can invalidate their opponents and take control of committees. I was hoping in my lifetime to see that we had become too damn civilized to stab our own protectors and defenders in the back.

[river rat]

We're both old enough, seen enough and already betrayed once -- so we should know that the lowest forms of life on the planet are ignorant leftists and the politicians they elect...

America, Mark Twain once said, is a nation without a distinct criminal class "with the possible exception of Congress."

Well, times have changed, Mark Twain would certainly add our leftist lunatic "Educators", "Journalists", perpetual "victims" and welfare leaches...

If the Democrats perform too stupidly, they will be held to blame in 2008 if the Nation suffers another hit, Military re-enlistments/recruiting implodes or the Islamists get emboldened by the wimpy Democrats at the reins.

Semper Fi

[onedoug]

sgtyork, eh?

When were you in the field, sarge?

[TET1968]

I was waching the Bridge at Dong Ha tonight on Fox.
Brought back memories of the tour I served there in 68.
Enough ......

Best of luck,

[sgtyork]

Oh, I spent time in the field with the 9th ID and the 2ID. So why are you shucking on expressing a little gratitude that there is still some good news coming from Iraq?