U.S. forces raid al-Sadr's stronghold
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
Posted on 05/26/2007 3:00:02 AM PDT by advance_copy
BAGHDAD - A day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaced to end nearly four months in hiding and demand U.S. troops leave Iraq, American forces raided his Sadr City stronghold and killed five suspected militia fighters in air strikes Saturday.
U.S. and Iraqi forces called in the air strikes after a raid in which they captured a "suspected terrorist cell leader," the U.S. military said in statement.
The statement claimed the captured man was "the suspected leader in a secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to Iraq, as well as bringing militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training."
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Those always do good work, they are the best in the world. All you need do is get rid of the politics and the “winning the hearts and minds” nonsense, and they can do the rest. You win by putting the bad actors on the express lane to getting their 72 raisins. :)
When will the US get serious and kill Muqtada al-Sadr? The troop “surge” is just a waste of time, money and lives as long as that A-Hole is alive.
Good news.
I still remember Byrd and Kennedy trading quotes back and forth with Muktard the Satyr about how Iraq was the new Vietnamesque quagmire.
This was happening while our soldiers and Marines were cornering that filthy sack of nasty and taking his “militia” apart in Najaf.
Byrd and Kennedy gave the impression of being big fans of that particular lump of enemy.
I bet you they found some porn.
Do they have orders to either shoot or detain this guy? Detaining him would only ignite revolt. They should kill him.
War is hell.... While I’m sympathetic to both sides in any engagement, giving diplomatic immunity to your enemy every time you catch them is like using a hav-a-heart trap to catch the rodents in my barn so I can let them loose again. A catch & release program does not solve the problem!
Hmmmmm, I agree with you. There is “sympathetic”, then there is “stupid” and then there is “bloody hell stupid”. In my mind this particular ROE falls under the very last category. I wonder how many fake “Get Out of Jail Free Cards” are floating around Iraq? I wonder how many U.S. Generals are wondering around Iraq ready with a “Detain This Mullah Stamp” handy? I wonder who thought up this particular rule? I wonder if we would have given Hitler a “Get Out of Jail Free Card”? And why not if not?
Actually that "nonsense" is one of the reasons we are wining. Providing security is part of "Hearts & Minds, Nation Building".
Wouldn’t it be nice if we saw this headline two years ago?
Yes. Well said.
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We need to be putting some .223 rounds into the hearts and minds of al Sadr and his followers - THEN things will improve!
Yes- and it should have happened years ago. Iran should have gotten an early message in the summer of 03 that we weren’t going to tolerate any destabilization games.
The US Military should have made an example of Sadr and his merry band of dirtbags- as well as the scum in Fallujah.
U.S. forces raid al-Sadr's stronghold
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You’re right. Leave the soldiering to soldiers and they’ll deliver every time. This is why I advocate a complete disconnect between politics and war. Once the “trigger is pulled” (military action is taken), Congress should have no ability to interefere with said military action in any way until the pre-specified conditions of victory are met.
We'll have to invade Iran to get him. That might be a while yet.
He just resurfaced in Iraq. I hope this raid was a signal to him. Heck, I hope he’s soon on the receiving end of a PGM.
We'll never get close enough to the Chicken Man for that. A .50 BMG probably is too short ranged.
My weapon of choice is a 2,000 lb laser guided bomb.
Which I would have not have hesitated to drop on the Mosque in Najaf when he was ranting there yesterday. Although for various reasons a .50 BMG round might have been better in that instance.
We don't have the spine to do that. We will force our grandchildren to use much larger bombs.
Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr speaks to supporters at Friday prayers at his local mosque in Kufa, 25 May 2007. Iraqi politicians expressed cautious optimism Saturday that Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr's emergence from a four-month absence with a concilatory message would boost efforts to stem sectarian violence.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein)
Looks like it's almost Time to Whack-da-Muqty!
Wouldn't it be nice if headline writers knew how to write.
5 killed after U.S. raid?
What did we do capture them, then hang them later?
They’re taking exactly the right actions to win the ‘hearts and minds’ Iraqis who, as a rule, always help whoever presents the greatest risk to them. When the word gets out that letting a terrorist stay in that spare room can result in your house disappearing, they’ll be less willing to help terrorists. The concept of actions having consequences is alien to them, so it’s an important one to teach.
I stand corrected. :)
Your post is dead on and I suspect it is all part of fighting a PC war, likely a ‘look the other way’ order via Iraqi authorities.
Men look at an Iraqi flag painted on a bullet-ridden wall of a maternity hospital after an air strike by the U.S. military in Baghdad's Sadr City May 26, 2007. U.S. and British forces battled Mehdi Army fighters in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra after their leader, Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, made a rare public appearance and called on U.S. troops to get out of Iraq. (Kareem Raheem/Reuters)
Iraqis inspect the damage to cars after the US-led forces called in airstrikes to support an early morning raid in the Baghdad Shiite stronghold of Sadr City. US and British forces on Saturday clashed with Moqtada al-Sadr's supporters in Baghdad and Basra, even as Iraq's politicians cautiously welcomed the radical Shiite cleric's return to the political scene.(AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)
Iraqis mourn over the coffin of Mahdi Army militia leader Wissam Abu Qader during his funeral in Iraq's southern port city of Basra. US and British forces on Saturday clashed with Moqtada al-Sadr's supporters in Baghdad and Basra, even as Iraq's politicians cautiously welcomed the radical Shiite cleric's return to the political scene.(AFP/Essam al-Sudani)
BAGHDAD, May 26 (Reuters) - Eight more U.S. soldiers have been killed in five attacks in different areas of Iraq over the past four days, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
In the worst attack, three soldiers were killed and two were wounded while on patrol in Salahaddin province on Saturday.
US, British forces battle Mehdi Army
American and British forces have battled Mehdi Army fighters in Baghdad and Basra after their leader, Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, used a rare public appearance to call on US troops to get out of Iraq.
Five gunmen were killed in an air strike during a pre-dawn raid on Saturday (local time) in the cleric’s Sadr City stronghold in Baghdad, the US military said.
A militant leader suspected of ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was captured.
The US military said eight of its soldiers had been killed in five attacks in Iraq since Wednesday.
In the southern oil hub of Basra, the British military said “a number” of militia fighters were killed in an air strike overnight after they attacked British troops with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and machine guns.
The attacks were believed to be in retaliation for the killing of the top Mehdi Army commander in the city on Friday (local time) by British-backed Iraqi special forces, the British military said.
The fighting came a day after Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months and repeated his demand for a timetable for US troop withdrawal.
In Washington, the White House played down a report that the Bush administration was considering sharp cuts in troop levels.
The New York Times said the administration was developing concepts in which US combat forces would be reduced to around 100,000 by mid-2008 from close to 150,000 now.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino noted that 30,000 extra US troops ordered to Iraq as part of a security crackdown had not all arrived yet.
The increase was aimed at setting conditions that would allow US troops to return home.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1934216.htm
I wonder when Reuters will give us the casualty rate of the ENEMY? Oh that’s right, Reuters works for the enemy! They have enough staff and contacts to report on the enemy’s death rate, you know. Wonder why they are NOT doing that? Now THAT would be an interesting post!
Ping me ONLY when you report on the Enemy’s casualty rate. I watch MSM so I get all the info you post BEFORE you post it. NEWS FLASH, you are NOT posting anything new or interesting.
Surprise me with new, honest, and truthful stats that are NOT reported by MSM.
I don’t recall pinging you in the first place.
They should mark any that they catch and release with a small red dot on the forehead.
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