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Troops find car-bomb factory in assault 200 miles west of Baghdad (100 foreign fighters captured)
journalnow.com ^
| June 18, 2005
| Associated Press
Posted on 06/17/2005 9:45:35 PM PDT by jmc1969
American forces attacked a dusty border town from the air and with tank fire yesterday, capturing 100 militants in the third major recent effort to uproot insurgents who are believed to use the region to sneak foreign suicide bombers in from Syria.
"Coalition aircraft using precision-guided munitions destroyed these targets. Only buildings occupied by insurgents firing on Marines and Iraqi soldiers were bombed. Three buildings were confirmed destroyed," Pool said. No American or Iraqi military casualties were reported.
Marines carried out two major operations in the Karabilah area last month, killing 125 insurgents in the first campaign, Operation Matador, and 14 in the second, Operation New Market. Eleven Marines were killed in those two actions to scatter and eradicate insurgents using the road from Damascus to Baghdad.
The new campaign began just before dawn in the desert around Karabilah and nearby Qaim, a lawless town about 200 miles west of Baghdad that is at the crossroads of an insurgent smuggling route leading into Iraq from neighboring Syria.
During the assault, troops captured about 100 foreign fighters and discovered at least one car-bomb factory, said Col. Bob Chase, the chief of operations for the Second Marine Division. He said that U.S. and Iraqi forces encountered some resistance, but he did not characterize it as significant.
Iraqi soldiers did not participate in the earlier anti-insurgent offensives, but Chase said that this time they not only fought alongside Americans, but used their language skills and knowledge of the area to spot foreign fighters.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqprogress; karabilah; oif
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To: jmc1969
And I thought we were loosing...
It would be a good thing for GW to get in front of a camera and gloat once in a while. Clinton would have been all over this and if Clinton had been a republican president, he would have rubber Durbin's face in the excrement of his own words.
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posted on
06/17/2005 10:24:40 PM PDT
by
dinok
To: jmc1969
Car bomb factory? Their insurance premiums must be outrageous.
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posted on
06/17/2005 10:28:01 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(In God We Trust. All Others We Monitor.)
To: jmc1969
i'm also wondering where they are getting all the cars from that they keep blowing up. is there a car theft ring that is working with the terrorist, or are the terrorists stealing or buying them? IF they are in cahoots with a theft ring, maybe we could infiltrate that and bust the terrorists...
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posted on
06/17/2005 10:28:40 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: VeniVidiVici
"Car bomb factory? Their insurance premiums must be outrageous."
Aaahhh. That was pretty good there doc.
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posted on
06/17/2005 10:43:29 PM PDT
by
Earthdweller
(US descendant of French Protestants_"Where there is life, there is hope"..Terri Schindler)
To: TheDon
Don't be silly. Display a propane torch in front of them, and indicate that they **will** spill their guts, and they **will** be truthful in doing so, or else they will have a very serious case of fried balls.
THESE vermin decided to be terrorists; by doing so, they forfeited directly any ''legal'' considerations.
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posted on
06/17/2005 10:48:37 PM PDT
by
SAJ
To: jmc1969
Use them to run in front and beside the convoys.
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posted on
06/17/2005 11:05:52 PM PDT
by
TomasUSMC
(FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
Comment #27 Removed by Moderator
To: Echo Talon
It seems Iraq is full of car shops, and full of traffic. Needle in a haystack sort of situation.
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posted on
06/17/2005 11:28:21 PM PDT
by
buwaya
To: Echo Talon
One story had them buying them.
Lots and lots of cars there.
One guy was selling car bombs for $18,000, I dguess with car.
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posted on
06/17/2005 11:29:57 PM PDT
by
buwaya
To: TomasUSMC
For heaven sake don't send them to GITMO to the Nazi torture police. Just stick em with a pig sticker and put their heads on a pike in the neighborhood so the others can see. Just so long as they don't have to go to GITMO.
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posted on
06/17/2005 11:30:15 PM PDT
by
chuckles
To: jmc1969
During the assault, troops captured about 100 foreign fighters and discovered at least one car-bomb factory, Bet they use Union Labor.
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posted on
06/17/2005 11:32:20 PM PDT
by
Auntie Dem
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
To: jmc1969
100 caught.....no small thing that's for sure. Way to go guys.
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posted on
06/17/2005 11:39:51 PM PDT
by
commonasdirt
(Reading DU so you won't hafta)
To: bigsigh
"turn off their air conditioning"
What! You advocate TORTURE? I suppose in typical American cruel heartless fashion you would deny them orange glazed chicken as well? What's the 1-800 number for the international Red Cross?
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posted on
06/17/2005 11:45:25 PM PDT
by
commonasdirt
(Reading DU so you won't hafta)
To: Wiz; Straight Vermonter; TexKat
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posted on
06/18/2005 12:07:28 AM PDT
by
Deetes
(God Bless the Troops)
To: jmc1969
"capturing 100 militants in the third major recent effort to uproot insurgents who are believed to use the region to sneak foreign suicide bombers in from Syria."
Personally I wished they would have just killed these sorry dumb butts.
However, since they didn't I suggest transferring them into Little Dicky Turbins state for incarceration.
Lets say just about a mile from his neighborhood would be close enough.
Also let Little Dicky furnish some security.
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posted on
06/18/2005 12:12:49 AM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(LL THE)
To: jmc1969
exterminate them.
catch and release is for the fishies.
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posted on
06/18/2005 12:14:42 AM PDT
by
Robert_Paulson2
(I remember when conservative meant, CUTTING the government's POWER and SIZE down.)
To: MikeinIraq; Dashing Dasher; ohioWfan
The "Iraq-is-a-Failure-We're-in-a-Quagmire" crowd will be deeply saddened to hear this.
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posted on
06/18/2005 12:14:54 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(But It's A Dry Heat...)
To: Becki; Cap Huff; iso; pissant; ravingnutter; Reagan79; SandRat; Straight Vermonter
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posted on
06/18/2005 1:09:06 AM PDT
by
Wiz
To: Gucho
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posted on
06/18/2005 1:09:48 AM PDT
by
Wiz
To: Echo Talon
I was wondering how the terrorists were arming all these cars with bombs without anyone noticing them.
Me too!
Way to go Troops!
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posted on
06/18/2005 4:16:41 AM PDT
by
CitizenM
("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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