"I grimace at you menacingly, Bush. Aaaaaaargh! (Is minder gone yet?)"
"We have out outmaneuvered the Americans so far. Soon we will shoot these officers and flee to our homes to out smart them once again."
Posted on 03/29/2005 5:29:32 PM PST by SandRat
WASHINGTON, March 28, 2005 – A 3-ton cache of TNT and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition are off the streets of Iraq following an Iraqi army raid near Jurf al-Sakher on March 25, Iraqi military officials reported. A press statement from Iraq’s Defense Ministry said 121 suspects were detained in the raid, conducted by the Iraqi army’s 8th Division, based in Karbala.
Besides the TNT, Iraqi soldiers seized 624 rifles, 250,000 light ammunition rounds, 22,000 medium rounds, 193 rocket-propelled-grenade launchers, 300 RPG rockets, 27 82 mm mortar tubes, and 155 82 mm mortar rounds.
Today, Task Force Liberty soldiers found about 200 60 mm mortar rounds and two tank rounds north of Baqubah. The soldiers, from the task force’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, transported the munitions to a coalition base for destruction.
Soldiers from 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), detained 10 suspected terrorists in two separate missions in northern Iraq March 27.
During a raid in western Mosul, soldiers, from 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, detained eight people suspected of attacking Iraqi security forces and ordering the March 20 assassination of Iraqi Gen. Waleed Kashmoula.
During a cordon-and-search operation, U.S. soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment detained two people suspected of terrorist activity. Officials reported no multinational troops were injured in these missions.
In other news from Iraq, authority over Multinational Force West transferred officially March 27. Marine Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, transferred authority to Marine Maj. Gen. Stephen T. Johnson, commander of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).
“I’ve never been more optimistic in my almost two years of association with this area,” said Sattler. “The energy, the enthusiasm of the people is catapulting this movement forward. The Iraqi security forces are capable, well-led and confident, and that confidence flows over to the Iraqi people.”
Johnson expressed his view of the future of Iraq. “We are going to see a great increase in the Iraqi security forces; they are becoming very effective,” he said. “We are going to see the emergence of the Iraqi government. Their constitution is being written, elections are being held and political decisions are being made in a democratic fashion.
“We are going to see their economy pick up,” he continued. “We are going to see opportunities for jobs and for industry. And we are also going to see the emergence of truth. For years, this country has not known truth, and we will be seeing more of that.”
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)
No but there was an unconfirmed report of him doing cannon balls and belly flops of the west Coast of Indonesia.
Hehehe. Hey, Scumbags, wanna be on TV?
Fantastic news! I'm so proud of the Iraqis and I'm not even an Iraqi. You go guys!!
Thanks for the ping!
In case you missed it. Another good sign.
Good. Lord.
at this rate they just may turn up the missing WMDs.
"I grimace at you menacingly, Bush. Aaaaaaargh! (Is minder gone yet?)"
"We have out outmaneuvered the Americans so far. Soon we will shoot these officers and flee to our homes to out smart them once again."
Rounding up bad guys ~ Bump!
three French mens, two chicken doves and a liberal in a pear tree.
Christmas haul in Iraq, by Iraqis no less.
Well... Good on 'em!!! And I still remember that first Iraqi about 2 years ago that was so happy to see our troops invading, who shouted "Welcome US, Democracy, Whiskey, Sexy!!!"
I will never forget the Old Iraqi in his late 60's/early 70's who asked our soldiers where they had been why did they wait all those years. Then he took his shoe off to beat the $oddomite's picture with it.
Great tagline, typically waspish.
No kidding...the payback is gonna be hell.
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