Posted on 06/23/2008 7:16:13 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush
BAGHDAD, IRAQ: Iraqi and Coalition forces in and around Baghdad captured more than 100 insurgents and defused 147 improved explosive devices during the past week as part of continued security operations, according to Iraqi and Coalition spokesmen. One insurgent was killed, six kidnap victims liberated and about 700 kilograms of TNT discovered during security sweeps in the past seven days, said Iraqi Army spokesman Major General Qassim Atta during a press conference in Baghdad today.
The current security plan, called Fardh al-Qanoon, or `Enforcing the Law,’ has been in place since early 2007, when U.S. planners began implementing a U.S. troop surge and divided Baghdad into separate security districts. Iraq forces now lead operations in all three of Iraq’s major cities, Baghdad, Basrah and Mosul and are operating in Amarah, where the Iraqi Army is currently battle elements of the Mahdi Army, said U.S. Rear Admiral Patrick Driscoll at the same press conference.
"So far in Amarah, there has been little resistance to the extension of the rule of law," Driscoll said. "There are still foreign terrorists who want to reconstitute their forces. Elements of Al-Qaeda’’ and Iranian-supported "Special Groups are still in Baghdad, but they are under pressure.’’
Iraqi forces kicked off a security operation last week in the southern province of Maysan, arresting the mayor of Amarah, Rafeaa Jabar, who also acted as Maysan’s deputy governor. Amarah, the provincial capital of Maysan, serves as the one of the major distribution points for weapons entering into southern Iraq from Iran and was the most significant Mahdi-controlled area in Iraq after control of Basrah and Sadr City were taken by Iraqi national forces.
As Iraqi government control over Baghdad solidifies, ministries are attempting to return families displaced from their homes during the past five years of conflict. In July, a national list of homes occupied illegally by people will be published by the government, allowing more than 100,000 displaced families from around the country to move back into homes they previously occupied.
`"The success of Fardh al-Qanoon is connected with the return of displaced families in Iraq,’" said General Atta. "Forces will raid the homes and remove occupants" if they do not leave voluntarily. About 20,000 families have returned to their former homes and about $140 million has been allocated as compensation, Atta said.
An increase in public events such as wedding receptions at hotels and the opening of national embassies is anecdotal evidence of improving security in Baghdad, Atta said. In May, the Sadrist movement and the Iraqi government signed a cease-fire that allowed the military to enter the Mahdi Army stronghold of Sadr City uncontested.
LWJ and “rolling them up” ping...
This is a fantastic development, imho, that the Iraqi government is publishing a list of homes illegally occupied and getting people back to their homes. This is justice, and it is one of the first orders of business for any legitimate government. Best news in this article, imho.
Funny I did not hear about this from the MSM.
Yeah, it's pathetic. That is why I think John McCain should campaign until the GOP convention from Iraq. Make all those MSM reporters that have to follow him walk the streets of Baghdad and Ramadi with him. At every stop he could pound home the message, Barak Obama would have left these people to the tender mercies of al Qaeda and JAM. But because of our perserverance we now stand on the cusp of victory and a drawdown from the context of victory.
I was in the navy for 21 years, as a hospital corpsman. I was in a marine infantry battalion, near Baghdad, Sept. 2004-Mar. ‘05. My battalion captured about 1,200 detainees, but I didn’t hear any American reporters mention that. Whenever an American dies, in Iraq, the American journalists ensure that they report it, but they rarely report how many insurgents the Americans kill. My battalion had 13 deaths, and we killed about 250 Iraqis. The American reporters don’t want Americans to know about our progress.
I like the news about the enemy being killed. That is the objective in winning the war. Thank you for your service.
The MSM is a cancer to this country.
Virtually every news service in the US and the english speaking world has at least one reporter assigned to follow John McCain (and Barak) everywhere and be ready to file at least one report a day (sometimes several). John McCain needs to jet these turkeys to Baghdad and walk the streets of Baghdad and Ramadi and any other city and campaign from there until the GOP convention. They could not help but cover it if they were there walking the streets every day. And if the Obama campaign squeals that he is "politicizing" the war, he can bury him with the line "Who has been politicizing the war for four years if it is not the democrats? They want to politicise it only when things are going poorly!"
More good news out of Iraq ping.
"One hundred;-)insurgentsheavily armed TERRORISTSdetainedinterrogated then shot in Baghdad during past week
There - fixed it."
If you want another nice thought, try this:
“One hundred Obama supporters who won’t be able to vote this Fall”.
Oh, the week is starting out just fine.
[We could use the Communist system of justice to deal with terrorists: Shoot them, convict them, then hold a trial - in that order. Saves time and money]
If you want another nice thought, try this:
“One hundred Obama supporters who won’t be able to vote this Fall”.
Oh, the week is starting out just fine.
[We could use the Communist system of justice to deal with terrorists: Shoot them, convict them, then hold a trial - in that order. Saves time and money]
A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
(1) Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict, as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions: (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (c) that of carrying arms openly; (d) that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
(3) Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
(4) Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization, from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
(5) Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
(6) Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
B. The following shall likewise be treated as prisoners of war under the present Convention:
(1) Persons belonging, or having belonged, to the armed forces of the occupied country, if the occupying Power considers it necessary by reason of such allegiance to intern them, even though it has originally liberated them while hostilities were going on outside the territory it occupies, in particular where such persons have made an unsuccessful attempt to rejoin the armed forces to which they belong and which are engaged in combat, or where they fail to comply with a summons made to them with a view to internment.
(2) The persons belonging to one of the categories enumerated in the present Article, who have been received by neutral or non-belligerent Powers on their territory and whom these Powers are required to intern under international law, without prejudice to any more favourable treatment which these Powers may choose to give and with the exception of Articles 8, 10, 15, 30, fifth paragraph, 58-67, 92, 126 and, where diplomatic relations exist between the Parties to the conflict and the neutral or non-belligerent Power concerned, those Articles concerning the Protecting Power. Where such diplomatic relations exist, the Parties to a conflict on whom these persons depend shall be allowed to perform towards them the functions of a Protecting Power as provided in the present Convention, without prejudice to the functions which these Parties normally exercise in conformity with diplomatic and consular usage and treaties.
C. This Article shall in no way affect the status of medical personnel and chaplains as provided for in Article 33 of the present Convention.
Clearly the Maliki government is now on the right track. There going to need some more maximum security prisons built asap.
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