Posted on 07/26/2005 3:04:49 PM PDT by Asphalt
U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed or arrested more than 50,000 Iraqi insurgents in the past seven months, a former top general who has headed repeated Pentagon assessment missions to Iraq said yesterday. Gen. Jack Keane, a former deputy chief of staff for the Army, also said the United States has a good picture of the leadership of the vicious insurgency but less of an idea about its mid- and lower-level ranks. "We know who they are," he told a lunch gathering sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He said the eight to 10 leaders "occasionally meet -- we've recorded that -- not just in Iraq, but in Jordan and Syria." Gen. Keane's remarks provided a rare insight into the extent of U.S.-led operations against an insurgency that has been responsible for hundreds of deaths in the past few weeks alone. Pentagon officials previously had been quoted as saying 15,000 to 16,000 Iraqis were in custody in Iraq, but spokesman Lawrence DiRita was unable to comment last night on the 50,000 figure offered by the general.
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Did they mean 'terrorists'?
The General was making an educated SWAG...it's probably a conservative number.
? insurgents/terrorists/people fighting against us
Heaven's going to have to order more virgins.
Wouldn't surprise me
50,00 insurgents/terrorists/murderers is a good start.
I'm surprised the Washington ComPost didn't use "freedom fighters".
I'm very glad I wasn't drinking anything when I hit 'refresh'. That was good
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50,000 of these thugs KIA or captured seems a very reasonable number / estimate -
They won't be getting them from Earth...that's for sure. (Something tells me China's fresh out.)
Slight little spelling error there... I like your homepage BTW pretty funny. :D
That is why the MSM does NOT have the common sense, decency or the discipline to REPORT those KILLED in ACTION without combining that report with deaths by natural cause, accident or suicide.
I'm faxing a copy of this to ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and tell them to stop complaining about dropping news ratings and start giving us the da&* news!
FYI your top link indicates the Wash Post rather than the Times.
That is just deaths on the enemy side in the last 7 months, not the whole two years.
It's far higher than 40-1 Asphalt.
Way to go military!
Heaven's going to have to order more virgins.
Ya know, Muslim women go to heaven too!
And what do THEY get?
To be virgins, over and over and over again.
yeah, yeah. I just threw out a number. In the future I'll pull out a calculator
BTW, not to nitpick, but it's actually 28.153153153153153...kidding
I have the gift of the typo. I wish I could tell you that it was all my doing, but unfortunatly 99% is from other sources.
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