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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Way to go! Find the nearest wall, tree or whatever and let 'em have it!
Let's see what AI expects us to do with not so uniformed foreigners making bombs in Iraq.
I'd be willing to bet that they are all Syrians.
The last word was that they would mostly be North Africans (Algerians, Moroccans, etc.) plus Saudis. They may be running low on Syrian problem children.
All had probably infiltrated via Syria. But I'll bet the majority were Saudis.
Hey Skylark-great graphic-do you mind if I use it???
Line them up against a wall and execute them.
I'll just check out the story on the network news or in the Boston Globe...NOT!
Might be hidden in a small article way inside.
turn off their air conditioning
I stole it from someone else here at FR, so I can't object if you take it from me -- help yourself.
"turn off their air conditioning"Uh...oh... I'd leave everyone of them at room temperature instead of sending them to Gitmo :)
Salute! Outstanding news.
Expanding ops and continued success in the War on Terror has the dims from clowns like Durbin to self-styled intellectuals like Feingold scrambling.
Good News Ping
I was wondering how the terrorists were arming all these cars with bombs without anyone noticing them.
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