[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.