Thanks for all your help z-man, wherever you are.
Posted on 11/20/2007 12:46:01 PM PST by 14erClimb
WASHINGTON — A key turning point in the U.S.-led war against the Iraqi insurgency came even before last winter's troop surge, FOX News has learned.
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The Times reported that days now pass without a car bombing, unheard of in the height of the insurgency. The number of bodies appearing on the streets has fallen from a peak of 35 eight months ago to five a day, and homicide bombings dropped to 16 in October, half as many as last summer and down from a peak of 59 last March.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Please be careful with this news Democrats are suicidal.
I don’t see 4 rings in that map. I see 1 ring.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
There appears to be four sectors...
Not much of a map, hard to believe our military need chicken scratch on a bar napkin to turn the war?
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have American blood on their hands.
“Not much of a map, hard to believe our military need chicken scratch on a bar napkin to turn the war?”
They didn’t.........but information helps. God Bless our Soldiers.....
Support them.....don’t second guess their abilities.....
You missed the Arabic noting routes and enclaves
Detroit is a quagmire! We should get out now!
Interesting choice of words.
We used to hear about car bombs non stop from the MSM when they were going off daily.
Now that days pass without a car bombing, the good news is unheard (not reported) by the MSM.
I don't understand the being careful part. ;~))
Desperation is a smell worth waiting for...
The intelligence analysts have played a largely unheralded role in keeping casualties down. The army doesn't like to publicize what their geeks are doing, but those databases and analysis systems produce more than impressive 3-D graphics of who is doing what in the combat zone. These systems have been very accurate at predicting where the enemy will strike next, who the enemy is, where they live and what shape their morale and combat capability is. These predictive systems make sure that the limited supply of MRAPs are used in areas where there are the most IEDs. Captured terrorists are perplexed at how the Americans manage to be one jump ahead. Most attribute it to some kind of "kafir (non-Moslem) magic." It certainly can't be "God's will." Iraqis are more inclined to believe in magic, than people in the West. But there are Islamic radicals on the many pro-terrorist message boards, who have advanced degrees in math and statistics, that know quite well what the Americans are doing. So far, these savants have not been able to convince their fellow radicals of the importance of trying to spoof the Americans predictive tools. Spoofing isn't easy, and you need a skilled and disciplined force of troops to carry it off. The terrorists have neither. Setting off roadside or suicide bombs remains the favorite terrorist weapon, even as these tools become less and less effective.
As long as the U.S. has the intelligence advantage, the enemy will continue to find themselves outmaneuvered and out of luck.
I’m sure the Democrats will now say we need our troops in Detroit. Bring them home now!
Ping . . .
Thanks for all your help z-man, wherever you are.
The Demoroids won't let us get out. They're too embedded with defeat....
Message from the Democrat Congressional Leadership:
We are launching an investigation into whether any terro, er uh insurgents were tortured to obtain that map. We are sending subpeonas to everyone in the Pentagon, everyone in the White House, everyone in Iraq and everyone else we can think of. The New York Times will be assisting our investigative team to reveal as much sensitive information as possible. This is just another miserable failure of the Bush/Betrayus policy. How many more Americans have to die to get maps?
If we learn about torture used to obtain that silly map, or even if we don’t, we will bring articles of impeachment, court martial, articles of clothing and magazine articles against the Bush administration and its cronies. We will also return all the territory back to the insurgents that was improperly seized in violation of the terror, er uh insurgent’s constitutional rights. Hopefully, we can restore France’s confidence that America is not a rogue nation.
Harry Reid
Nancy Pelosi
There are four rings....each circle is a ring.
Joseph can you translate the map Fox has at the link...its in a pdf file.....thanks
Now we know from where the term Baghdad and the Belts came from.
Thanks for clearing that up. YOU are the main reason the story about WMD/al Quada got out.
You are truly a national treasure.
The map reads as follows:
Next to the arrows pointing from the far outside to the first outside circle, they have the names of different districts in Baghdad such as "Abu Ghraib", "Khan Bin Saad", "AL Mahmodiah".
Now between the inner and outer circles they have divided it them into different sectors that they call it "Hizam" or belt, and they have what they call "Western belt", "Northern Belt", "Eastern Belt" and "Southern Belt".
The inner circle is also divided into three regions or sectors and they use abbreviation for these regions that I do not what it stands for.
5 bodies a day? Sounds about like Detroit - for a city at least twice the size of Detroit also. Not bad!
Thank you my FRiend..
There is an outer belt (dotted line), two major belts (the circles) and a lateral belt (through the center).
Thank you!
That is it... the heart of Baghdad.
You are welcome Tom :)
Thank you very much my FRiend, I am just your humble freeper :)
That's exactly what Rumsfeld was talking about, the importance of intelligence, especially one coming from Iraqis disaffected with al-Qaeda and finally convinced by resolve of President Bush that we are not going to leave them at the mercy of murderous jihadists and internal score-settlers.
These things take time and strategy, not simply mindless throwing of "bodies" and money at the problem, which is characteristic of liberals. Especially with a people who have been traumatized and butchered for decades and didn't know who to trust and how to trust, and who have been left defenseless by Americans before, throughout the 1990s.
seems Fox is recycling old news today
“Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’
Keep movin’, movin’, movin’,
Though they’re disapprovin’,
Keep them doggies movin’ Rawhide!
Don’t try to understand ‘em,
Just rope and throw and grab ‘em,
Soon we’ll be living high and wide....”
Now, if we could just roll up some of the undesirable elements inside our own beltway (D.C.), we’d be doing better.
Nicely put...I could even hear his soft girly-man voice reading it....
Thanks. I DESPISE the Rats.
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