U-S troops kill senior Saddam Fedayeen officer, his neighbors say

kgbt4.com ^ | 10 December 2003 | AP

[11th_VA]

Mosul, Iraq-AP -- Neighbors of a senior officer in an Iraqi paramilitary group say U-S soldiers shot and killed the man at his home in Mosul (MOH'-sul) today.

The U-S Army confirms there were raids in the area, but it's refused to comment on the reported death.

Two of the man's neighbors says U-S troops stormed his house, and shooting was later heard. They also say he was a member of Saddam Fedayeen, a group believed to be taking part in attacks against U-S occupation forces in Iraq.

The house was locked this afternoon. There were several bullet holes in the gate. A black banner nearby said the man was "martyred during a blatant aggression by American forces," and gave today's date.

[river rat]

"....martyred during a blatant aggression by American forces,"

I guess it blow these sheet head's minds, when a warrior comes right up to your door, and blows your ass away -- eyeball to eyeball...

Terrorize the terrorist.. bleed them white.

Semper Fi

[Criminal Number 18F]

Be careful what you read about Phoenix. There are a lot of bogus stories out there.

• It was a Vietnamese, not US, operation (with US advisors).
• It was not meant to assassinate, but to capture and interrogate, enemies.
• Far from being secret, it had a kickoff press conference with a US Ambassador (Komer) and high ranking RVN officials!
• Douglas Valentine's book is all bullshit (most of his "SEALS", etc. that gave him info, are phonies)
• Dale Andrade's book is almost completely accurate.
• there were no mass killings, annihilated villages, etc.
• it was effective. The VC were already hurting -- TET 68 decimated them, and their auxiliary and underground supporters. After that, the VC were combat ineffective. What Phung Hoang did was put the guerilla eyes of the NVA out, so when it invaded it was basically a combined arms invasion w/o significant guerilla/underground support (1972 and 1975 both).

Be really leery about stuff you read about special ops forces in Vietnam, especially SEALs. If you read something that sounds dodgy, check out authentiseal (forget if it's .org or .com), they can tell you if someone is on the up and up in jig time.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[math=power]

Thanks for the heads up.

Information is hard to came by in this world. I know a guy at work who is a Kurd and he LOVES America and the fact that we went after SH. It's hard for me to get a real sense of what's going on in Iraq, but if the number of attacks is less than 40 a day that seems consistant with relative STABILITY. However...if most of our troops are hunkered down than it may not indicate that.

Again thanks for the detailed post.

Jeff