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  • U.S. troops clash with Ramadi insurgents (at least 12 killed in 6-hours of fierce fighting)

    02/22/2007 8:33:50 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 12 replies · 714+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/22/07 | Sinan Salaheddin - ap
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops battled insurgents in fierce fighting that killed at least 12 people in the volatile Sunni city of Ramadi, the military said Thursday. Iraqi authorities said the dead included women and children. The six-hour firefight began after the U.S. troops were attacked by insurgents with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades Wednesday evening in eastern Ramadi, said Marine spokesman 1st Lt. Shawn Mercer. The fighting ended after "precision guided munitions" damaged a number of buildings being used by the insurgents, he said. Twelve insurgents were killed and three were wounded, he said, adding that there were no...
  • British 'Quick Fix' Aid For Afghans Brought To Halt By Insurgents

    02/18/2007 6:23:51 PM PST · by blam · 1 replies · 532+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-19-2007 | Tom Coghlan
    British 'quick fix' aid for Afghans brought to halt by insurgents By Tom Coghlan in Lashkargar Last Updated: 1:16am GMT 19/02/2007 Few foreign aid agencies are prepared work in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand. Two weeks ago, a white clad figure approached the sandbagged guard post outside the compound of one agency. Very politely the man explained that he was a suicide bomber. "I have no problem with you," he told the local guards, opening his jacket to show the bomb strapped to his body. "Just let me go inside and kill the foreigners." The nearest guard shot him in...
  • Terrorists Using The Internet?

    02/15/2007 12:30:55 PM PST · by jjgnc · 56 replies · 1,617+ views
    Myself | 2-15-07 | JJ
    Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Foreign Operatives Using Message Boards All over the Internet, it is apparent that a coordinated, well-funded effort is under way to undermine and warp American values by attacking us through our least protected zone...the Internet. From AOL, to Yahoo, to Netscape, possible terrorists are posting on message boards while posing as liberals. They are taking advantage of the natural anti-American tendencies liberals have anyway, and therefore can more easily blend in. However, there are a few traits you should look for to determine whether someone is actually a foreign agent instead of just the average liberal:...
  • SitRep: Iraq -- Weapons in Theater (dated pre-Zarqawi's death on 8 Jun 06)

    02/14/2007 7:17:28 PM PST · by OESY · 15 replies · 823+ views
    Email | 2/14/07 | Retired Marine General
    This email from a guy who is there.. No politics here, just a Marine with a bird's eye view opinion: 1) The M-16 rifle : Thumbs down. Chronic jamming problems with the talcum powder like sand over there. The sand is everywhere. Jordan says you feel filthy 2 minutes after coming out of the shower. The M-4 carbine version is more popular because it's lighter and shorter, but it has jamming problems also. They like the ability to mount the various optical gunsights and weapons lights on the picattiny rails, but the weapon itself is not great in a desert...
  • UK backs US claim of Iran arming Iraqi insurgents

    02/13/2007 3:18:50 AM PST · by familyop · 3 replies · 292+ views
    British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government on Monday backed US claims that Iran's leadership has provided weapons to insurgents fighting coalition forces in Iraq. Blair first expressed concern in October 2005 about technology for roadside bombs and other weapons entering Iraq from Iran, the prime minister's official spokesman said. "The prime minister has been at the cutting edge of identifying this problem," the spokesman said on condition of anonymity, in keeping with government policy. "We continue to say what actually is the case, which is that we keep finding this weaponry which we do not believe can be sourced from...
  • Help Michael Yon identify an insurgent weapon

    02/12/2007 7:40:53 PM PST · by mykpfsu · 22 replies · 1,544+ views
    Michael Yon ^ | mykpfsu
    The recent loss of five helicopters in Iraq has caught the attention of the media. Also in the media is all the new talk of Iranian influence on weapons in Iraq, although my readers learned about the issue more than a month ago in Walking the Line (Part Two of Three). In the face of all this “new” controversy about “foreign” weapons in the battle space, I recalled some of the many photos I.ve taken of caches of weapons captured by Iraqi and American forces in Iraq. The photo above is from one of these. None of the military persons...
  • Muslim nations move to prevent violence

    01/31/2007 10:30:22 AM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 16 replies · 853+ views
    Washington Times ^ | January 31, 2007 | David R. Sands
    Terrified that sectarian Muslim bloodshed could soon engulf the region, U.S. allies and adversaries in the Middle East have stepped up joint efforts to head off a religious civil war. Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran have held intensive talks in recent days on ways to tamp down sectarian violence in Iraq and Lebanon. Over the weekend, Saudi King Abdullah issued an unusual public call for calm. Top Islamic clerics and scholars in Egypt, Qatar and Iraq also have issued statements urging Muslim unity, often blaming the United States and other outside actors of trying to divide the faithful....
  • Iraq - Rebels make $1.5 billion from refinery

    01/14/2007 1:17:56 PM PST · by HAL9000 · 14 replies · 651+ views
    Reuters (excerpt) ^ | January 14, 2007
    Excerpt - Iraqi militants are taking most of the $US1.5 billion a year that's stolen from Iraq's main oil refinery through smuggling and corruption, the government told parliament today. Speaking at the second reading of the 2007 budget, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said crime is behind the crisis in the oil industry, which is struggling to meet Iraq's own fuel needs despite having the world's third biggest reserves. "We have a system and an administration which encourage corruption," said Mr Salih, who has oversight over the economy. ~ snip ~
  • Iran demands US free arrested "diplomats" in Iraq

    01/14/2007 12:00:04 AM PST · by HAL9000 · 39 replies · 990+ views
    Reuters (excerpt) ^ | January 14, 2007
    TEHRAN, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Iran is demanding the immediate release of five Iranians held by U.S. forces in Iraq, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday, adding that the five are diplomats. The five were arrested on Thursday in the northern Iraqi town of Arbil and the U.S. military has accused them of links to an Iranian Revolutionary Guard group that provides weapons to Iraqi insurgents. "Americans should immediately release the five Iranians and pay compensation for the damages they caused to our office in Arbil," Mohammad Ali Hosseini told a weekly news conference, adding the five were...
  • Senior Iranian official suspected of spying on Iran's nuclear program

    01/12/2007 12:58:58 AM PST · by familyop · 200+ views
    Haaretz ^ | 11JAN06 | Yossi Melman
    Iran announced Thursday that it has arrested a senior official for allegedly spying on the country's nuclear program. The name of the detainee has not been released, but he was identified as an employee of the parliamentary research center. The center provides research services and advice to parliamentarians and security on strategic issues.
  • UK Troops 'Destroy' Taleban Camp

    01/07/2007 3:06:18 PM PST · by blam · 81 replies · 4,093+ views
    BBC ^ | 1-7-2007
    UK troops 'destroy' Taleban camp Many Taleban fighters are thought to have been killed in the operation British troops have destroyed a Taleban training camp in southern Afghanistan, killing dozens of insurgents, according to the military. About 110 Royal Marines carried out the operation in northern Helmand, which it is hoped will pave the way for repairs on a hydroelectric dam in the province. It is hoped nearly two million people will now get access to electricity. Operation Clay was launched on New Year's Day. Plymouth-based 42 Commando were engaged in four days of fighting. Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has...
  • So, Wanna sign-up for totalitarian 'anti-freedom' freedom fighters?

    01/04/2007 8:17:59 PM PST · by PRePublic · 2 replies · 289+ views
    Wanna sign-up for totalitarian 'anti-freedom' freedom fighters?   Freedom Fighters most ironic term terrorists use, translation: fighting AGIANST any freedom. What went through your mind when you heard militant Cindy Sheehan calling the terrorists fighting in Iraq "militia freedom fighters"?Would these same "militias" spare her throat giving the chance? why after all, the very factor of an 'infidel being in Arab land (Iraq) is already good enough to shout: "Allah Akbar" & head cut off!   If you are about to use the "freedom" word You might call it "freedom from the non Muslim existence", if you wish. Unless the Islamists are...
  • AP: Militants Flee Gov't Forces in Somalia ~ ( Why not insurgents?...)

    01/01/2007 12:24:51 PM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 25 replies · 963+ views
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | January 01, 2007 at 11:35:9 PST | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN and ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY
    MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Fighters belonging to a militant Islamist movement fled into a rugged, forested corner of Somalia from rapidly advancing government forces Monday, and the prime minister offered amnesty if they surrendered. Regional diplomats worked to arrange the speedy deployment of African peacekeepers to help the interim government establish its authority in the country, which has known only anarchy for 15 years. As the last remaining stronghold of the Islamic group was overrun by government troops backed by Ethiopian tanks and MiG fighter jets, the net began closing on suspected al-Qaida militants believed to be sheltered by the...
  • U.S. IS DETAINING IRANIANS CAUGHT IN RAIDS IN IRAQ... DEVELOPING...

    12/24/2006 7:53:14 PM PST · by bnelson44 · 148 replies · 5,089+ views
    Drudge Report ^ | 12/24/06
    U.S. IS DETAINING IRANIANS CAUGHT IN RAIDS IN IRAQ... DEVELOPING... American military holding at least 4 Iranians in Iraq, including men Bush administration called senior military officials, who were seized in pair of raids late last week, NY TIMES reporting Monday... MORE...
  • A Canadian geopolitical analyst : Insurgency doom to fail, no civil war in Iraq

    12/20/2006 5:11:26 AM PST · by drzz · 501+ views
    A French new study by Nicolas Martin-Lalande, Étude Raoul-Dandurand published by the strategic and diplomatic studies institue of the Quebec University,Montréal, Canada, made an extensive overview of the present situation in Iraq and the future of the country and the insurgency there. The conclusion : a) the insurgency will be long to be defeated, but has no chance to win stategically gains due to its lack of unity. b) the present situation in Iraq is NOT a civil war. The recent comments by sunnis, shia and kurds prove each ethnicity changes his point of view frequently about how to deal...
  • How to Beat Insurgents: Military Updates Playbook

    12/17/2006 6:25:47 PM PST · by NordP · 13 replies · 1,299+ views
    ABC News ^ | December 15, 2006 | David Kerley, ABC News
    Insurgents in Iraq cannot be coerced. They must be killed or captured...Read the rest by clicking on the link...unbelieveable!
  • U.S. says 20 insurgents slain in Iraq fighting

    12/08/2006 10:53:48 AM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 9 replies · 456+ views
    AP ^ | Friday, December 8, 2006
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S.-led coalition forces killed 20 insurgents, including two women, Friday in fighting and airstrikes that targeted al-Qaida in Iraq militants northwest of Baghdad, the military said. The mayor of the village, which was the site of a U.S. raid earlier this year, said 19 civilians were killed, including seven women and eight children. In the south, more than 1,000 British and Danish troops conducted a pre-dawn raid in the outskirts of Basra, coalition officials said, describing the operation as the largest of its kind in the area since the war began. Five Iraqis, described as members of...
  • Saudi citizens donating to Iraq Sunni insurgents

    12/07/2006 9:18:17 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 4 replies · 493+ views
    AP ^ | Friday, December 8, 2006
    Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash. Saudi government officials deny that any money from their country is being sent to Iraqis fighting the government and the US-led coalition. But the US Iraq Study Group report released Wednesday said Saudis are a source of funding for Sunni Arab insurgents. Several truck drivers interviewed by The Associated Press described carrying boxes of cash from Saudi Arabia into...
  • My Own Iraq Study Group

    12/07/2006 2:04:48 PM PST · by radar101 · 23 replies · 1,003+ views
    ChronWatch ^ | 7 DEC 2006 | Don Bendell
    This morning, my wife started crying when we listened to the long-awaited findings of the Iraq Study Group. She said, “Just great! We have two sons in harm’s way, and they have a bunch of gray-haired old geezers with political agendas trying to influence how they will fight in this war, and none of them have a clue how to fight or win!” For some time now, I have been conducting my own Iraq Study Group, but I asked fellow Green Berets and former Green Berets working for the CIA who have lived with the Iraqi and the Afghani people,...
  • Baker-Hamilton Can't Save Us

    12/06/2006 3:51:04 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 19 replies · 756+ views
    Cato Institute ^ | December 5, 2006 | Justin Logan
    Next week, the Baker-Hamilton Commission will make its recommendations on U.S. Iraq policy, and Congress will begin hearings on defense secretary nominee and Cold War realist Robert Gates. Both events will reflect the failings of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq. But even as a grudging acceptance of reality takes hold in Washington, the architects of the war are urging that we double down on the losing bet in Iraq. Amid spiraling sectarian violence, the leading advocates of invading Iraq seem now to have centered on an explanation for how their idea has driven that country to blood-soaked disaster: deposing...