Terrorists dead following attack on Security Forces

TASK FORCE FREEDOM, MULTINATIONAL FORCE ^ | May 30, 2005 | TASK FORCE FREEDOM, MULTINATIONAL FORCE

[mdittmar]

MOSUL , Iraq – Soldiers from 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) killed several terrorists and captured four people suspected of anti-Iraqi activities in northern Iraq Sunday in combined operations with Iraqi Security Forces.

Soldiers from 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment were attacked by terrorists while conducting a raid in a village in northern Al Anbar Province. Iraqi Army and U.S. 2-14th Soldiers quickly overwhelmed the enemy. Following the attack, the units also discovered a weapons cache inside the building the terrorists had used. The suspects are in custody with no MNF or ISF injuries reported.

[SteveMcKing]

I know we do take casualties, but how we manage so often to be unscathed from being ambushed AND decimate the attackers is just amazing.

Scary though.

[SittinYonder]

Operation Thunder appears to be doing really well. This is a great headline and great story.

[dennisw]

A dead terrorist is a good terrorist.

[ProudVet77]

Sounds like the Iraqi forces are starting to gell.

[ASA Vet]

I think our kill ratio is a lot better than 10%.

[Dinsdale]

Lets be clear on terms though.

People that attack combatants are insurgents.

People that attack non-combatants or attack indiscriminatly are terrorists.

[SteveMcKing]

Word mis-use. "Eliminate", I meant.

[AmericanArchConservative]

Good news ping!

A.A.C.

"Avowed Infidel enemy of the ArabianArchPlagiarist"

[mdittmar]

You forgot the, /sarcasm

[Busywhiskers]

"...how we manage so often to be unscathed from being ambushed AND decimate the attackers is just amazing."

A read that a common tactic used by guys like Chesty Puller in Haiti in the 30's was to find the insurgents by patrolling through the jungle until they got ambushed. Since the insurgent were not well trained, Puller's troops could use counter ambush tactics to close with them and destroy them.

[Dinsdale]

No sarcasm.

You can attack US troops and not be a terrorist.

Otherwise terrorist is just a word we are using for enemy.

[DuncanWaring]

A dead terrorist is a good terrorist.

Well, maybe not a "good" terrorist, but at least a much-improved terrorist.

[mdittmar]

Wrong,they are all terrorists,the are nonuniformed,non military,non Geneva Convention terrorists.

They will be treated that way I hope.

[sinanju]

"Lets be clear on terms though.

People that attack combatants are insurgents.

People that attack non-combatants or attack indiscriminatly are terrorists."
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You just spelled it out. That is the definiton right there, as I learned it. Freedom Fighters/Insurgents/Guerillas attack attack other combatants. Terrorists attack innocent civilians. It is that brutally simple.

[Dog]

There is another operation underway.....wretchard on his site mentions the name Operation Lightening.

Thunder goes after the foot soldiers.....Lightening is targeting the high value targets..the leadership.

[sinanju]

I think our kill ratio is a lot better than 10%.

Please. Don't even use that phrase. That gives me Vietnam flashbacks and I was born in Seattle in 1964.

[Dog]

You can attack US troops and not be a terrorist.

You better be wearing a uniform.or you are a noncombatant.

[Brilliant]

The terrorists are going to be finished by the end of the year, I think.

[EGPWS]

Soldiers from 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) killed several terrorists and captured four people suspected of anti-Iraqi activities in northern Iraq Sunday in combined operations with Iraqi Security Forces.

Good.

Their endeavors are to be commended.