Elsewhere, it's mostly IEDs [improvised explosive devices, or roadside bombs], IDF [indirect fire, or rockets and mortars] and harassment fire.”
Sadrcity Update ping!
The enemy is bottled up. Exits are through chokepoints and kill zones.
God, I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, but I sure hope McCain wins in November.
That’s odd. Why aren’t the army building a virtual wall? Don’t those work just as well?
US and Iraqi forces hope to restrict the movement of weapons and supplies into the southern neighborhoods, prevent the Mahdi Army from using these areas as launch sites for mortar and rocket attacks against the International Zone, establish the writ of the government, and provide humanitarian assistance to Iraqis living in these areas in order to wrest control from the Mahdi Army. The Mahdi Army is desperately trying to stop the barrier from being builtThe Mahdi Army should use the "Final Jeopardy" music for its theme song. Thanks Ernest.
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“[The barrier is] a magnet,”
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More flypaper in the kill zone. The more we kill there, the fewer will attempt to engage us elsewhere.
"... on April 28. The Mahdi Army took advantage of the lack of US air cover due to a sand storm to launch an ambush against US forces ... The US soldiers counterattacked and killed 28 Mahdi Army fighters while taking six wounded."
So they thought we wouldn't kick their a$$ without air cover and over extended their forces. Great job by our guys!
"The next day, The Associated Press ran an article on the engagement titled “Militiamen ambush drives back US patrol in Sadr City.” But (LTC)Stover said the ambush failed to force the US soldiers to withdraw. “The barrier emplacement never stopped,”
No surprise that AP lied, I guess I must have missed their retraction...
Chopping the area up into manageable chunks. Why can’t this be done with Gaza?
AP to label it an “Apartied Wall” within the week.