Iraqis Fleeing Samarra Say Extremists Control City

asharq alawsat ^ | February 26 2007 | Haidar Najem

[Marine_Uncle]

This sounds like BS. Either that or the Iraqi army and police have not done diddly squat since they supposedly where taking control of this city sector by sector working from south upward to the north (where a few months back, the remaining goons where operating out of).
As far as the so called training camps. OK. Why are there no airstrikes going on until US and Iraqi troops can go in an appraise what is left. Something just don't ring true on this one.

[jmc1969]

There are rural parts of Samarra that the US doesn't spend too much time on, Swarmmer last year was an attempt to change that. I remember when we first started going after the terrorist camps in Dyala they built in terrorist training camps right into the woodword of some of the rural areas.

[Marine_Uncle]

Your feedback is fine. But I question at this late time in the game why if camps are known why we are not making big holes in the ground. Then again, perhaps we wait to get a lot of them in a few places, then bingo.

[jmc1969]

They build these training facilities into the ground like rats just like they did in Diyala when the US hit an entrenched pocket of them a few months ago.

As long as we secure Baghdad we can deal with rats in time.

[MikeA]

Why don't we have bombers taking out these training camps? Crimeny, no wonder we aren't winning this war. These animals present ripe targets and we don't pick them off. Amazing.

[Marine_Uncle]

"As long as we secure Baghdad we can deal with rats in time."
Agree in full. And the Iraqi forces can only continue to grow stronger and more efficient as time goes by, better equiped and supplied. The insurgents are far more desperate then one may imagine. They have everything to loose.