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To: archy; MJY1288; xzins; Cannoneer No. 4; SandRat; Calpernia; TEXOKIE; Alamo-Girl; Travis McGee; ...
The threat facing members of the coalition's Task Force Olympia here remains the same, but the people responding to it are Iraqis, not Americans.

Mosul, a northern city with Sunni, Shiia and Kurdish ethnic groups, was not immune to recent disturbances. On the night of April 9, former regime elements conducted "well-organized and dangerous" attacks against Iraqi government buildings, said Army Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, commander of Task Force Olympia.

....the men of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and the Iraqi police responded. "They stood strong," Ham said. "It was those forces that repelled the attack."

The galvanizing force was the governor of the province and the city, Ham said. "He never left the building, and his personal courage made a big difference," the general noted.

"The Iraqi people in Mosul got the message that here is a strong, democratic leader with a competent security force." Ham said.


2 posted on 04/16/2004 2:17:22 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("He spares nothing to get to his Marines..They love him." re the command Chaplain in Fallujah,Ramadi)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Thanks for some good news!
3 posted on 04/16/2004 2:27:18 PM PDT by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
The galvanizing force was the governor of the province and the city, Ham said. "He never left the building, and his personal courage made a big difference," the general noted. "The Iraqi people in Mosul got the message that here is a strong, democratic leader with a competent security force." Ham said.

His name? Give him the 'Guliani Award' for civic courage and put him in for a promotion to Prime Minister of Iraq!

4 posted on 04/16/2004 2:51:56 PM PDT by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com - I salute our brave fallen.)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Good news ~ Bump!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

5 posted on 04/16/2004 2:53:38 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
9 posted on 04/17/2004 8:53:01 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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