Lando 
Posted on 07/15/2005 8:00:04 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
Major Terrorist Captured By Iraqi Forces
July 14, 2005 - Baghdad, Iraq - PipeLineNews - Iraqi security forces yesterday captured 78 terrorists in combined operations. The dragnet including the apprehension of one of the most wanted men in Baghdad - Ammar Howaidi- who is connected to Mola-Mahd a faction thought part of the Jordanian al-Qaeda mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror network.
Hoadid was captured disguised in a woman's dress in a bulletproof car which contained an assortment of weapons.
In separate actions, the Iraqi 4th Special Forces Division captured 5 suspected terrorists and a huge quantity of weapons and explosives.
On the previous day U.S forces arrested a council member in Samara province - Shiekh Talal Abd Al-Kareem Mattar. Mattar is accused of having carried out a series of attacks against American forces.
Iraqi Government Slashes Taxes, Civil Servants Salaries Increase Substantially in Last Two Years
By Sameer Nasser
July 13, 2005 - Azzaman News Service - Iraq has slashed income tax to 15% from 49% and substantially increased the minimum sums individuals can earn net of tax. The progressive tax system replaces a 1982 law under which individuals had to pay 49% of income beyond certain salary brackets.
The current tax system is progressive. It starts with 3% up to a maximum of 15%.
“The figures show that there is a huge gap between the former and current income tax systems," said head of Tax Authority Muhssen Abujuaila. Parents’ income is only taxable if together they earn more than 4.5 million dinars. Besides, there are allowances of 400,000 dinars annually for each child.
Previously, annual incomes beyond 1.6 million dinars were taxed. Under the former regime civil servants were exempt from tax because of their meaningless salaries. On average a civil servant would earn 5,000 dinars (two U.S.) dollars a month.
Salaries of civil servants have increased substantially in the past two years, with many of them earning more than one million dinars a month. Companies have seen their taxes slashed from 35% to 15%.
Major Baghdad Housing Project Nearly Completed By Mohammed Mustafa
July 10, 2005 - Assaman News Service - A state-run construction firm has completed 70% of a major housing project in Baghdad, the Ministry of Housing and Reconstruction said. The project in Sabaa Abkar consists of 48 buildings and is expected to cost $5 million.
The project covers an area of 72,500 square meters and includes a school, car parks and paved roads in addition to a 240-square meter market place. There are two flats in each floor of the three-storey buildings. The flats are spacious to meet needs of traditionally large families in Iraq. The average area of each of the 288 flats is 115 square meters.
The project is one of several currently being implemented in Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces. The country faces an acute housing crisis which has seen property prices rise to unprecedented levels.
All housing contracts in the country, worth millions of dollars, are being executed mainly by state-run construction companies. The state-run al-Mansour Contracting Firm is building the Sabaa Abkar flats and is currently involved in major housing projects in Iraq.
A 48 Hour Listing of Recent [approx June 28-30] Important Iraqi Actions Against Terrorists
1st regiment/2nd commandoes brigade arrested 43 suspects in Al-Doura district while the 2nd regiment/1st brigade arrested 2 terrorists in Shu'la district.
-The interior ministry announced the beginning of operation lightning-1 in Babil province which is going to be a joint effort between the Army and the local police forces. The 1st wave of raids resulted in arresting 43 suspects and confiscating 10 vehicles used in terror attacks against Iraqi civilians and security forces.
-A force from the Iraqi army backed by Polish troops raided terrorists hides in the areas of Jibla and Rashad in the same province and arrested 8 terrorists and confiscated their Ak-47's.
-Police forces in Kerbala arrested 20 terrorists and confiscated 6 suspicious vehicles and disarmed 2 vehicle-born bombs.
-In Zangora area near Ramadi, Iraqi and American troops arrested a terror cell leader named 'Jbair Grayen Al-Jiblawi who's one of Zarqawi's aides in Anbar province.
-In the north, 3 members of the Ansar Al-Sunna army were captured in Mosul; one of the 3 terrorists carried a Saudi ID.
-In Tikrit, multinational forces arrested 3 roadside bombs-makers and in Kirkuk 10 suspects were arrested. The men are supposed to be responsible for some missile attacks in the city. Explosives' ingredients and blast capsules were found during the search of the arrest scene.
-In Abu Ghraib, Al-Muthana brigade arrested 19 terrorists and found amounts of weapons and detonation devices as well as vehicles that were prepared for performing terror attacks.
-In Al-Kasra neighborhood in Baghdad, IP men and American explosives experts failed an attack with a car bomb that was parked in the heavily crowded main commercial street in the district. A shop keeper was suspicious of a car that was left in front of his shop, the driver claimed that the car broke and that he's going to find a mechanic but the shop keeper didn't believe the story and called the police and it was found later that the car contained a large bomb that was a mix of artillery shells, TNT rods and gas containers. By 1 am, the area was evacuated and people were told to keep a distance from the car. The explosives experts detonated the car in its place as it was impossible to move it away. No casualties happened but there was some inevitable material loss in adjacent shops.
-In Tal-afar near Mosul, Iraqi and American troops killed 15 terrorists in clashes that took place yesterday.
-Police patrols in Dibis town arrested two terrorists while they were trying to plant a roadside bomb on the main street in the town.
-One of the most important successes was arresting one of Izzat Al-Douri's relatives along with 3 of his bodyguards.
-Iraqi TV announced Khalid Sulaiman Darwis (aka Abu Al-Ghadia Al-Soori) was killed during a raid as part of Operation Spear in Anbar province. The Syrian terrorist is one of the leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Lando
"Hoadid was captured disguised in a woman's dress..."
What makes them think it was a disguise, I wonder.
Wow...what bravery./sarcasm
BTTT
Bad day for the terrorists.
Thanks. I like to start the day out with good news.
Now this is interesting considering one of the "offenses" cited yesterday at Gitmo by the military report was that a detainee was made to wear a bra. Kinda takes the air out of their balloon...
IF this is true, at this rate.. our troops will be coming home allot faster than planned...
Actually, events such as those captioned in the above compilation of articles are fairly routine here.
The worthless, scumbag, slimeball MSM just refuses to report most of it because it doesn't fit with their oh-so-obvious agenda.
This sort of thing is a great idea - a compilation of the GOOD news coming out of Iraq. And it will infuriate the MSM, so that makes it all the better.
There is enough news on the progress of Iraq to have a daily collection of articles like this without any problem.
Thanks for posting this, Lando.
Are you back in Iraq again?
In a sane world it would. As it is, if any pictures of the guy wearing a dress leak out, the Dims and MSM will be howling about how his right to privacy was violated and then they will insist that Karl Rove be fired.
Yep.
I haven't really been away except for a few weeks this past spring and 10 day R&R intervals every few months.
I think you forgot to add that it was all Bush's fault! :)
Speaking of pictures of the guy wearing a dress leaking out, I believe it was Brit Hume who said last night that the most dangerous place to be in Washington was between Chuckie Cheese Schumer and a camera.
OK, now that Muslim male cross-dressing is all the rage in Iraq, I don't want to hear any more drivel about Abu Graib.
49% income tax?? That's even higher than it was here under the Clintonistas!
And that's only if my quick count while skimming the items is correct. Yep, sounds like a Quagmore, all right.
"Wow...what bravery."
Everyone knows that REAL freedom fighters wear dresses.
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