Posted on 07/25/2006 4:12:45 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, July 25, 2006 – Iraqi security forces conducted early-morning raids in two areas today, netting eight insurgent fighters. Iraq forces captured two targeted insurgents, one of whom was a local insurgent cell leader, in a raid in a rural area northeast of Fallujah. Coalition force advisers looked on as Iraqi forces raided a targeted house and captured both insurgents.
The cell leader allegedly coordinated and directed makeshift bomb attacks against coalition convoys, mortar attacks against coalition bases, and ran an insurgent training camp near Samarra. His accomplice, a member of his cell, is believed to have conducted bomb and mortar attacks against coalition forces in the Fallujah area.
Iraqi forces also seized one AK-47 assault rifle. No Iraqi or coalition forces were injured during the operation.
In a separate pre-dawn raid, Iraqi army forces captured six insurgents in Baghdad. The captured individuals are believed to have been involved in "death squad" activities, according to U.S. officials.
As coalition force advisers looked on, Iraqi forces raided four buildings and captured the cell leader and five other key members of an insurgent "punishment committee." Iraqi forces also seized two AK-47 assault rifles, one pistol, and one set of body armor.
No Iraqi or coalition forces were injured in the raids.
In other news from Iraq, soldiers from Multinational Division Baghdad's 4th Brigade Combat team, 101st Airborne Division, detained five terrorist suspects and seized their weapons at around 12:30 a.m. July 23 after receiving a tip from an Iraqi citizen of a possible weapons cache. Soldiers entered the house and detained the five terrorists, along with two rocket-propelled grenades, a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher and a 9 mm pistol.
In another incident, Iraqi soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, and U.S. soldiers from 1st Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Multinational Division Baghdad, were in patrol in Adhamiyah shortly before 1 a.m. July 23 when they were attacked by terrorists using small-arms fire. The soldiers returned fire and detained two terrorists.
As they were returning to base, they observed another individual running from a house carrying an AK-47 rifle. Soldiers stopped the man, confiscated his weapon and detained him. Upon searching the house from which the man fled and a vehicle nearby, soldiers found a mortar tube and a 60 mm round, three additional AK-47s, two bandoliers of ammunition, and six grenades.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Dems Deeply Saddened!!! Iraqi Forces getting better and the terrorists are losing.
Are you kidding? The Dems. and their media lapdogs are loving the violence in Iraq which no matter how much it has Al Qaeda's handiwork written all over it they label as "sectarian violence." This is the media/Democrats' new mantra. Label all terrorist violence "sectarian" and part of an emerging civil war. Americans will be far less likely to support continuing on in Iraq if it's a civil war than if we're combatting terrorists. So the Dem and media scum just throw it all into the same bucket now calling it "Sectarian" violence.
One question, why were the Dems. all for us getting in the middle of a REAL civil war back during the Clinton years in the Balkans, but suddenly being in one that's only a civil war based on their labelling is bad?? So preventing sectarian violence was an important security imperative in the 90s in Chirac and Schroeder's war in Kosovo but doing so now in Iraq is bad??? Someone care to explain this latest Dem inconsistency??
Just wait til you see what I put up next.
The answer is easy, anything a Dem President Does is Good; anything a Rep Pres Does is Bad. That's their mind-set.
Great news. Looking forward to the Iraqi prime minister's address of Congress. Much will be said, I suspect, of the progress of the Iraqi forces.
Ping me on it if you would...I can't wait.
Think I just did.
I wonder if John Kerry and others in the swamp fever caucus will insult Malaki like they did P.M Allawi when he spoke before the Congress in 2004.
Shame he didn't fall.....and hit his head.
I wonder if John Kerry and others in the swamp fever caucus will insult Malaki...
I think we can count on it. And look forward to it. Their defeatist snarking will please their base and further alienate real Americans.
At some point the deterrent effect of summary executions will exceed the value of any intelligence these scum can provide. I hope the new Iraqi government is courageous enough to make that transition. Anyone trying to kill his fellow Iraqi citizens should pay with his life, promptly.
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