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  • U.S. Launches Operation Scimitar in Iraq

    07/09/2005 1:35:29 AM PDT · by Straight Vermonter · 18 replies · 620+ views
    About 600 U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers launched a fourth counterinsurgency operation in less than a month in a volatile western province in Iraq, this time near Fallujah, the military said Saturday. The counterinsurgency offensive, called Operation Scimitar, started Thursday with targeted raids in Zaidan, 19 miles southeast of Fallujah. Two days later, 22 suspected insurgents had been detained. The military said it did not announce the offensive earlier because commanders did not want to tip off insurgents that a major operation had begun. The offensive - named after a curved sword - includes 500 Marines from the 3rd Reconnaissance...
  • US Marines launch new raid on Iraq insurgents

    07/09/2005 6:24:18 AM PDT · by Pharmboy · 6 replies · 522+ views
    Reuters ^ | Sat Jul 9, 2005 | Anon Reuters Stringer
    U.S. Marines said on Saturday they had launched a new counter-insurgency operation, the latest in a series of sweeps designed to root out militant bases in Iraq's Euphrates valley. Operation Scimitar involved about 500 U.S. troops and 100 Iraqis, making it about half the scale of Operation Sword and Operation Spear in the past three weeks. The military said the Marines had detained 22 suspected militants since the raid was launched in secret in the village of Zaidon 30 km (20 miles) southeast of Falluja on Thursday. Washington says the western Euphrates valley between the Syrian border and Baghdad is...