Posted on 05/27/2007 8:21:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
BAGHDAD — U.S. forces rescued 42 Iraqi civilians Sunday from an Al Qaeda hide-out northeast of Baghdad, including some who showed signs of torture and broken bones, a senior U.S. official said.
Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the top U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said it was the largest number of detained Iraqis ever found in a single Al Qaeda hide-out. Some among the 42 had been held as long as four months, he said.
Details were incomplete, but Caldwell said some of the freed Iraqis were being transported to medical facilities for treatment of their injuries. There were no indications that Americans had been held at the hide-out, he said. It was not immediately clear whether any Al Qaeda figures were captured.
The discovery was unrelated to a search south of Baghdad for two missing U.S. soldiers.
U.S. forces previously have found a number of houses used by Al Qaeda for detention, including some where prisoners showed signs of torture. But the hide-out raided Sunday in Diyala province was the largest, Caldwell said in a telephone interview. He declined to be more specific about the location, citing security reasons.
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Another defeat for al-Qaida’s thugs.
What our troops are doing in Iraq is one of the great untold stories in history, and I mean it.
Don't be so sure.
First of all, they likely blame the Americans for being in that prison in the first place.
Secondly, you're looking at this from a Western mindset. As an Army officer told me after returning from Iraq, "Logic is a totally foreign concept there... Iraqis simultaneously say both that 9/11 was a Mossad operation to make Arabs look bad--and that it was a great Arab victory against the West!"
I hope, however, that this isn't the case and they are grateful.
This is the great enigma...until you consider....
However, Leftists have recognized that they can benefit politically from destructive terrorist attacks on the Western world.
Horowitz is right on target.
Am I the only one concerned that al Queda has enough control of Baghdad real estate to run such a facility to have had prisoners for months in this type of situation?
Constant cherry picking one sided subjective opinion like riverbend short circuits objective logic and reason and over time fries the mind into a non-conductive bitter turd-for-a-brain.I think that's just the reverse of what really went on there. ;')
Thanks E.
It wasn't in Baghdad.....see this:
Iraq Report: Attacking Mahdi, al Qaeda prison camp in Diyala
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In Diyala province, where al Qaeda has established a stronghold, Iraqi and U.S. security forces have broke up an al Qaeda "prison camp" and captured 7 al Qaeda during two separate raids. Today, a joint U.S. and Iraqi Army raid rescued 41 Iraqi civilians "showing signs of having been tortured or mistreated" from an al Qaeda run prison camp just south of the city of Baqubah. "Many of them showing signs of mistreatment ranging from broken bones and bruises to heat injuries caused by being held with insufficient water," AFP noted.
Time for Roy Rodgers and Gene Autry types to make an appearance...
I sit corrected. The Fox News story I had heard on this story on this morning at the gym made it sound like the prison was in Baghdad proper. Do you know how far the city is from Baghdad?
I thought it was 60 or 70 miles NE...
I wouldn’t argue about that.
Heh...
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