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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then make them listen to Christina Aguilera music and watch puppet shows
Please pass the word that Anacronyms with more than 4 letters are not allowed.
BERT
How soon we forget
THE RIGHT WAY
THE WRONG WAY
and the ARMY WAY
More like: Put them up at the nearest Ramada Inn with lots of clean sheets and comfy pillows, serve them Glazed Chicken Flambe' for dinner, etc.
A very impressive day's work -- and no American or Iraqi casualties to boot. God bless 'em all for their fantastic work! And now they have 100 different intelligence sources.
Exactly right - This was / is a hell of a run operation -
Car bomb factory? And I thought Ford stopped making the Pinto and Bobcat (rimshot)
lol...and definitely NO obnoxious music!
The roach hotel is filling up fast. Love it!
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