Posted on 03/20/2007 9:52:08 AM PDT by jmc1969
American forces liberated more than two hundred hostages yesterday in villages in the district of Muqdadiya the majority of which are Iraqi police.
In Diyala police source who wished to remain anonymous confirmed that American forces repositioned in the villages and Ashakragh Sensl close to the town of Muqdadiya carried out raids, searches and range of regions and the surrounding orchards.
He added that the American forces had found several prisons belonging to al-Qaeda and containing more than two hundred abducted hostages. The source explained that the majority of the abductees are the elements of the police who had been abducted at different times and over a period of months.
Nice that they finally found more than heads and decapitated bodies. Al Queda short on $$$$, holding for ransom?
Ping. Check the original source.
The Burtha News Agency is the offical agency of the SCIRI.
Hope they took pictures of the conditions the hostages were being kept in.
"Hope they took pictures of the conditions the hostages were being kept in." ........................ For who? Feinstein and Boxer wouldn't care, they are only interested in faux torture by US troops.
I read the original Arabic text and the translation in English as posted above is accurate. This an Iraqi Shia website and it is seems to be pro-US as I have read some of the headlines and that is a good thing to read. Notice that they do not use “American occupation forces” or any of typical BS, but rather “American forces” and they use words like “ The American forces LIBERATED…”, it is good to read stuff like this.
There is one glaring omission in this story and others like it. It is frustrating and angering and... GGGGRRRRRrrrrrrrrr!
How can 200 hostages be liberated without finding and killing any of the killers involved?
How much infrastructure is necessary to kidnap and hold that many policemen?
My gut feeling is several times that "200" figure.
Without killing the rats, the kidnappings and murders will continue forever!
That is an intruguing statement.
Can you share with us how you came to know Arabic well enough to verify a translation?
I have often been tempted to learn it, for the benefit of learning cuss words and insults, if nothing else...
As always, thanks for your valuable input.
I am originally from Lebanon, Arabic is my native language.
You are welcome :)
That's wonderful!
Let me echo another poster, and add my thanks for your always useful input.
You always appear to live up to your name.
Thanks so much for posting this information. I do know that you've taken so much time and care to translate all sorts of documents for the readers here and I would just like you to know how much it is appreciated. It is good to read stuff like the stuff you put up!!
Thanks for posting this, jmc1969.
Excellent, and thank you.
As I've heard, that marvelous philanthopist Danny Thomas is also from lebanon. Good things and GOOD PEOPLE come from Lebanon, they are not all terrorists there.
Thank you very much. Without the great benevolence of America, the greatest nation in history of mankind, many people will not have the opportunity to show that they have goodness in them. God Bless America.
Thank you fellow freepers.
Thank you Joseph for the translation..
Anytime :)
And the "surge" is yet in it's infancy. The goons will perish and a future democratically governed Iraq slowly converting into a more modernized industrial nation will spring up, where Islam may be held in check. Lots of work yet to be done that is for sure.
I know some Arabic enough so I can translate simple sentances. Of course with an article like this I also need some help from translation software.
Excellent, where did you learn Arabic?
Cornell
My great grandparents came from Lebanon, too. They were escaping from the Ottoman boot.
Thanks.
Not so long ago, Burtha Mosque (to whom Burtha News belongs) was raided by an alleged American force and some posters got excited about it! Check this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785789/posts
Apparently, it was reported that the raiding party found nothing of interest.
The Burtha mosque is the most holy Shia mosque in Baghdad. Raiding it shows we weren't playing favorites like we did in 2006.
Lawrence of Arabia is one of my favorite CDs. It really shows what the arabic problem is : strong tribalism. The scene in the damascus city hall with everyone shouting at once clearly illustrates why the british divided and conquered the arabs, tribe by tribe. You see it today in Iraq with its 50 tribes, all vying to be numero uno.
Yes, yes, they want a new mohammed, their MAHDI. Nonsense. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. No, our democratic ways may seem foolish and weak to the death cult arabs but GWB gets his gonads yanked on every day. Which is just as it should be.
Today it's the AG getting whacked, tomorrow it'll be someone/something else. As president/leader in a democracy you can't get away with SQUAT w/o being held accountable. Which would you rather have : blind obedience to a fuhrer, a saddam, or a leader that you can say : NO! You can't do this, or YES! We're with you on that.
That's the beauty of our congress. All money bills originate in the House. The leader may WANT to do this or that, but if the PEOPLE say NO, then he'd better do it out of his own salary, if he can afford it.
Excellent....thanks!
Muqdadiya
BumP
Thanks!
Is Muqdadiya a different city than Muradiya ?
Thanks for the ping!
Oh, this is great news!! Like one poster said above, thank goodness they're finding live people instead of bodies. Wonderful!!
Thanks Ernest.
I guess the mystery to me is, how a 200-cell prison gets built, and no one in the area knows anything about it...
Thanks.
The US press never print analysis like yours even in the rare moments that they print good news.
More proof of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Muradiya is a small place just south of Baghdad. Muqdadiya is a town in the troubled Diyala province further up north east of Baghdad. Its not far from Baquba
thanks
I thought the aim is to catch terrorists and illegal weapons.
One example of not appearing even-handed is what happened yesterday after the execution of Saddam's deputy Taha Yaseen Ramadan. A US chopper picked up the body and handed it over to relatives in Tikrit for burial. His supporters (not just in Iraq but in much of the middle-east) interpreted this as US execution since the US handed back the body. Don't get me wrong, I think the guy deserve to be executed and I have no sympathy to his supporters, but It would have been much better in my view to arrange for his relatives or some intermediaries to pick up the body without US involvement.
how about 20 shipping containers with 10 to a 'room'?
Of course it is good news. The tide is changing. The Iraqi will start to get a lot more serious about taking control of their destiny. With funds being made available for police and better training and equipment they are starting to make an impact in some provinces. It will take time. One cannot rebuild what was lost in a short period of time that has any worth.
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