Posted on 12/21/2013 6:53:05 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Al Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 18 Iraqi Army officers, including a senior general and members of his staff, in a complex suicide attack today in the western province of Anbar.
The commander of the Iraqi Army's 7th Division and the commander of the 28th Brigade were among the 18 officers who were killed after three suicide bombers attacked them in a home in the remote western town of Rutbah, Reuters reported. Several "high-ranking officers" who were members of the division and the brigade staffs were also killed.
The officers were reportedly visiting an area in Rutbah that was subject to a recent military operation targeting al Qaeda.
Rutbah is a smuggler's town and a transit point to Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia in the desert in the southwestern corner of Iraq. Al Qaeda attempted to control the town from 2005 to 2007 in order to facilitate the transit of weapons, cash, and foreign terrorists into Iraq's central regions. With the civil war in Syria and the renewed terrorist insurgency in Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham is attempting to regain control of Rutbah and other border areas in western Iraq, as well as areas it lost late last decade. . .
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This can’t be right. Al Q was never ever in Iraq. (According to the leftist politicians and press in the US.)
“We’re baaack”
” Al Q was never ever in Iraq. “
There was at least one. Fella named Zarqawi.
Things going along just swimmingly since we left.
soetoro approved
What good are false flags unless you fly them?
This sort of thing is galvanizing ... if one is capable of being galvanized, I guess. Of course, 9/11 was galvanizing, and I’ll never forget Seymour Hersh soft-pedalling it on the very eve of the attack. I found that galvanizing.
You might conclude that I am the Tin Man by this time.
I spent a lot of time their. Too bad it was wasted by Bath House Barry.
This is NOT good. Not at all !
All those brave men and women who sacrificed their lives and futures. For what ?
Can’t be. We have been assured that al-Qaeda is on the run, UBL is dead, GM is alive, and there were never any al-Qaeda in Iraq. What’s wrong with you people?
Part of my husband’s job is arranging for training at our base for foreign pilots whose countries have purchased our military planes.
His last class (July through Sept 2013)of 35 included a wonderful man from Iraq that was to be made a general shortly after the class was over. I hope he was not amongst these men.
He lived 3 miles outside Baghdad on a small farm with his wife and 10 children. He had much to say about the people currently in power in his country and how they compared to Saddam Hussein. I learned a lot from him.
Instead the White House has focused our blood and treasure on Afghanistan—Obama’s “central front on the war on terror,” also known as the “Graveyard of Empires” and opium basket of the world.
You’re exactly right.
This is why I worry about the man we know from there. He was one of the students that came here that got very close to my husband and myself. It’s a bad time in Iraq to be in the military and working with the Americans or seeming to sympathize with us.
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