Posted on 08/05/2005 4:59:23 PM PDT by SandRat
HIT, Iraq (August 5, 2005) -- Marines with 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment have a new weapon in the war against terrorism and it is simple, effective and voluntary.
The tip lines provided by Regimental Combat Team-2 allows citizens here and in surrounding communities to assist in the fight to make their city safe and secure while remaining anonymous and safe from reprisal from insurgents.
Since March, a tip line was provided for the Hadithah area, which proved ineffective and unsecure. Two new lines were installed a few weeks ago and are ringing off the hook.
“We have been advertising the tip lines through the use of handbills and speaker systems we have in the city,” said Albany, N.Y., native, Maj. Christopher J. Douglas, 39,the commanding officer of Company K. “A few hours after people were notified the tips started to roll in.”
The new tip lines are a joint venture with the Iraqi Security Force, which has assigned soldiers to man the phone lines 24 hours a day. The ISF officers hold the responsibility of briefing the Marines on calls they think are important.
So far, they have received information that led to the capture of suspected insurgents, weapons caches and explosive devices.
“We have been able to plan patrol routes that allowed us to cordon off areas of suspected bombs and perform raids to apprehend suspected insurgents,” said the 1984 Ballston High School and 1989 Marist College graduate. “Almost each of the tips we get from the line turn into positive results.”
The lines receive approximately 10 calls a day. The high succession rate from the tips received shows that people in the area are beginning to play an active role in the future of their community.
“Some people are happy that we are here and some are still afraid of the insurgents but they are coming around,” said Col. Mahdi Aziz Mohamed, the ISF Company 1 commanding officer. “They are beginning to realize that they play a heavy part in the building of the new Iraq. They are helping make their homes safer by simply calling and telling us where to find certain people and their weapons so we can help them have a better life.”
Turning the Terrs
The new tip lines are a joint venture with the Iraqi Security Force, which has assigned soldiers to man the phone lines 24 hours a day. The ISF officers hold the responsibility of briefing the Marines on calls they think are important.
It wouldn't be a bad idea if people here at home would create and promote a tip lines for crime in our own cities ghettos.
......oneway...tickets....to Greenland....
......Siberia...worked for Russia....
......South Pole camps would work too....
......relocation was the 'workable' understood-ancient-method by despots!!!
"Since March, a tip line was provided for the Hadithah area, which proved ineffective and unsecure. Two new lines were installed a few weeks ago and are ringing off the hook."
Thanks for post. Damn I just made comment in another post half hour ago that there are "hot lines" numbers to Baghdad.
And that they had been used in past. Now it seems like they are really starting to pay off. Good deal. As the peoples in Al Anbar experience the super oppression of the young punks that get across the border in one piece, they will forget their tribal pride and say the hell with this stuff. Like some have in since May done, they are starting to realize as soon as these local/foreign insurgents are pushing up daiseys the better of all their peoples will be. it is going to take time though. Al Anbar has always been the most resistive area in Iraq. Tough desert towns. Very independent tribes. Often to much for Saddams goons to keep fully under control as far as drug and smuggling went on. But they are starting to see American Army and Marines just kill Ali Babba then bring their kids school materials, open new medical clinics for the tribes, help rebuild things that are in disrepair etc.. So as Marine General Mattis said two years back........no better friend......no worse enemy. I think the Iraqi's are starting to get the picture.
We slowly are winning the hearts of large amounts of Iraq's despite the crap the L/MSM would have the masses believe.
Thanks for the ping!
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