Posted on 09/30/2007 4:25:36 PM PDT by mdittmar
BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 60 insurgent and militia fighters in intense battles over the weekend, with most of the casualties believed to have been al-Qaida fighters, officials said Sunday.
The U.S. Embassy, meanwhile, joined a broad swath of Iraqi politicians — both Shiite and Sunni — in criticizing a nonbinding U.S. Senate resolution seen here as a recipe for splitting the country along sectarian and ethnic lines.
U.S. aircraft killed more than 20 al-Qaida in Iraq fighters who opened fire on an American air patrol northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. command said.
The firefight between U.S. aircraft and the insurgent fighters occurred Saturday about 17 miles northwest of the capital, the military said.
The aircraft observed about 25 al-Qaida insurgents carrying AK-47 assault rifles — one brandishing a rocket-propelled grenade — walking into a palm grove, the military said.
"Shortly after spotting the men, the aircraft were fired upon by the insurgent fighters," it said.
The military did not say what kind of aircraft were involved but the fact that the fighters opened fire suggests they were low-flying Apache helicopters. The command said more than 20 of the group were killed and four vehicles were destroyed. No Iraqi civilians or U.S. soldiers were hurt.
"Coalition forces have dealt significant blows to Al-Qaida Iraq in recent months, including the recent killing of the Tunisian head of the foreign fighter network in Iraq and the blows struck in the past 24 hours," military spokesman Col. Steven Boylan told The Associated Press.
Iraq's Defense Ministry said in an e-mail Sunday afternoon that Iraqi soldiers had killed 44 "terrorists" over the past 24 hours. The operations were centered in Salahuddin and Diyala provinces and around the city of Kirkuk, where the ministry said its soldiers had killed 40 and arrested eight. It said 52 fighters were arrested altogether.
The ministry did not further identify those killed, but use of the word "terrorists" normally indicates al-Qaida.
A good start.
Hoping for a Blackhawk Down moment?
GET SOME!!!
Semper Fi,
“Harry Reid, Mr. Soros on line 2.”
I didn’t hear about this. That’s all we need, the Senate overriding state and suggesting changes to the architecture of the Iraq government in the middle of such instability...
“The Senate resolution, adopted last week, proposed reshaping Iraq according to three sectarian or ethnic territories. It calls for a limited central government with the bulk of power going to the country’s Shiite, Sunni or Kurdish regions, envisioning a power-sharing agreement similar to the one that ended the 1990s war in Bosnia. Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden, a Democrat presidential candidate, was a prime sponsor.
“In a highly unusual statement, the U.S. Embassy said resolution would seriously hamper Iraq’s future stability.”
I don’t watch the MSM...does anyone know if this even rated a peep above the former rapist IMPOTUS clips that seem to be constantly shown?
Just slaughter these animals as quickly as possible. Take no prisoners is the old saying. Bomb them, blast them, hunt them down and blow their brains out. Diminish their numbers.....it always works when you kill more of their guys.
I guess this is good news, but, frankly, 60 doesn’t sound like a lot. We have, what, 160,000 guys over there and we killed 60 of theirs? Woo-hoo.
Keep sending them to Allah boys! Good job! Hooaah!
Dont bring aks to an apache fight. You’ll never win! LOL
I remember 4 years ago when the RATS were crying that there were 20,000 Al Queada members. Recently I read an article that said we killed 19,000 militants.
Does this mean there are 1,000 left? And if so, how come the NY Times isn’t saying anything?
Thanks for stopping by.
More please, faster.
I love how our beloved (cough) media chose to run with ‘Petraeus says Violence up’. This probably appears in the next to last paragraphs of ‘those’ columns.
DU goes into mourning, puts on black armbands.
Code Pink asks where to send flowers.
There’s been a lot of good news over at the Operation Iraqi Freedom website lately... http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=1&id=4&Itemid=21 I check in everyday.
Kill em, kill em all and let God sort em out.
Does anybody have a figure on how many al_Qaida have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan ?...same for the Taliban in Afghanistan ?...Checked on Google and the figures were all over the place..
Thanka
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