It's nice not having to deal with the ACLU.
Posted on 09/04/2006 8:20:01 AM PDT by jmc1969
Iraqi security forces killed 14 "terrorists" and arrested almost 200 suspects, the government said Monday, in a spectacular follow-up to their earlier capture of an alleged top-level Al Qaeda leader.
Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki's office announced that over the previous 24 hours a large force of Iraqi troops and police swept through suspected insurgent strongholds in the Euphrates valley south of Baghdad.
Taken with the arrest of Hamed Jumaa Al Saedi, an Iraqi alleged to be the Al Qaeda militant network's number two in the country, the arrests will be seen as a victory for Maliki's embattled government in its war with insurgents.
"Over the past 24 hours Baghdad and its outskirts witnessed a series of military operations carried out by security forces from the defense and interior ministries to achieve security and stability," Maliki's office said.
The raids took place Sunday in a region south of Baghdad that is mainly inhabited by members of the country's restive Sunni minority and has been a hotbed of the insurgency.
"The units in charge of the southern and middle Euphrates district, the 8th and 10th army divisions, killed 14 terrorists and arrested 98 of them along with 95 more suspects," the statement said.
Police in Hilla, south of Baghdad, said that US forces and aircraft assisted Iraqi troops in Monday's arrest operation near Jorf Al Sahkr, but there was no immediate confirmation of this from US headquarters in Iraq.
"An exchange of fire between gunmen and troops led to the death of an Iraqi soldier," an officer said, adding: "The clashes continued for four hours.
"Iraqi forces managed to confiscate large caches of weapons during the raid, while planes from the coalition forces bombed a number of areas."
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Reaping the benefits of capturing the scumbag alive and extracting information from him.
It's nice not having to deal with the ACLU.
It's all Bush's fault!!!
As GWB says it is better to fight them over there than have to fight them in America.
I hope and pray al-Masri falls in short order, and that the Iraqi government sees fit to conduct some swift and just public executions of these cowardly beasts.
The above mentioned leftist/DNC line of reasoning is unadulterated horse hockey and BS, as events themselves (like this one) amply and readily attest and as anyone with an ounce of reasoning capability can see.
A point that seems lost on many folks. Some have this idea that if we just bring all of our troops home that for some reason the terrorists won't follow them.
"Reaping the benefits of capturing the scumbag alive and extracting information from him."
And obviously they did not use torture because as we all know torture doesn't work.
And of course the Iraqis treated him as the al-ACLU would have us treat prisoners. That is why they were able to get information from him so quickly!!
/sarcasm
Too much good news for the drive by media to report. They are probably resupplying the insurgency with explosives as we speak....expect a market to go up by noon for the evening news report.
Just what is there favorite meeting place? I'm sure it has a name. It is easy to find, and should be destroyed along with the operatives. Then they can try gathering their troops for meetings in other places. Some might be tempted to call it persecution, others more wise, would call it part of "winning the war on terror".
Not American forces. If this isn't progress towards a Free Iraq, what is? The Traitors would rather they stay enslaved under a brutal dictator than breath Freedom! This is an Honorable War run by Honorable People.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Wooohoooo! I bet Iraqi interrogation is much more 'vigorous' than anything our hog-tied interrogators could get away with. Iraqi policemen have died by the hundreds at the hands of people like Saeedi.
Saeedi obviously started singing right away, excellent. Wonder if they even had to threaten the punk b!tch. The info gained is always so much more fruitful if obtained quickly.
Yep, they can still get off the occasional kick and can still step on your foot and break a few bones, but man, they are beginning to have "Glue Factory" written all over them.
I really hate the "captured" part. Dead terrorists are much better than a catch and release program. Anyway, congrats to all who pulled this off.
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