Iraqi, Coalition Forces Squelch Terrorist Attacks

American Forces Press Service ^ | Aug 6, 2005 | unattributed

[SandRat]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2005 – Iraqi and coalition forces successfully defeated a coordinated terrorist attack Aug. 5 at an Iraqi army post south of Baghdad, officials said. Six of the terrorists were killed. Twelve were captured. The terrorists launched the attack with mortar rounds and small-arms fire at 7:55 p.m. Iraqi soldiers returned fire while Task Force Baghdad attack helicopters rushed to the site and engaged the terrorists with rockets and gunfire, officials said.

Almost simultaneously, a suicide bomber drove a truck into a nearby Iraqi army checkpoint. One Iraqi soldier was killed in the explosion. Another was wounded. The driver of the truck also was killed, but U.S. troops suffered no injuries, officials said.

"The checkpoint did what it was supposed to do," said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Clifford Kent, a Task Force Baghdad spokesman. "It stopped a terrorist from carrying out his plot to cause significant casualties and damage."

In that way, Kent noted, "the checkpoint was a success. (It) demonstrates Iraqi security forces' ability to defend against terrorist attacks."

U.S. tanks from the 48th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, arrived at the site of the explosion within minutes to help secure the area. The Iraqi patrol provided medical assistance to the wounded Iraqi soldier, officials said.

Another suicide car bomber then tried to attack a third nearby site. One of the U.S. tanks fired and hit the car, killing the driver and causing the car bomb to explode prematurely. No one else was injured, and no property was damaged in the failed terrorist attack, officials said.

Minutes later, just after 8:00 p.m., terrorists in a fourth location fired two rocket-propelled grenades and a mortar round at another Iraqi army post in southern Baghdad. None of the rounds caused any damage, officials reported.

During the next two hours, the terrorists tried to regroup for another attack on each of the two Iraqi army posts. But Iraqi and coalition Forces defeated the terrorist attacks with gunfire and rockets from the air and small-arms fire on the ground, officials said.

"I am absolutely proud of the strong determination shown by the Iraqi army," Brig. Gen. Stewart Rodeheaver, 48th BCT commander, said. "They are true patriots defending their homeland."

Added U.S. Army Maj. Liston Edge, an operations officer with the 48th BCT: "The enemy came to fight us with no success. Instead, the Iraqi army took the fight to them and succeeded. Their success is what will help secure and stabilize Iraq."

(From a Task Force Baghdad news release.)

[SandRat]

ping

[RedRover]

"Six of the terrorists were killed. Twelve were captured."

Nicely squelched!

[street_lawyer]

I search every major newspaper in the country. Not one of them carried this story which you can read on the Multi-National Force – Iraq website: http://www.mnf-iraq.com/Featured%20News/Aug/FN050803a.htm

Baghdad , Iraq - One year ago on August 27 the battle for Najaf ended.

A year ago the Najaf Teaching Hospital was closed. It had been looted and its medical equipment destroyed by the Sadr Militia. Now the hospital is open, seeing hundreds of patients per day, brought about by a close partnership of Iraqi doctors and a U.S. team of doctors, engineers, project managers, contractors, and Soldiers and U.S Army Corps of Engineers civilians. When finished, the hospital will house a new magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI) scanner, have computed tomography ( CT) scan services, and have increased specialty surgical services including its first open heart surgical team. The hospital will employ 1,250 people, in an area where good jobs are hard to come by.

[SandRat]

Yet they claim they don't hide stories and complain loudly that they can't hide stories when someone challenges them on why they even bother to publish the trash from Al-Jezzera the propaganda arm of AQ.

[Marine_Uncle]

But NBC about three weekends ago had a gig on some run down hospital in Baghdad, that had nothing but a few doctors and nurses, off course the commie camera man focused on the poor downtrodden injured, laying on floors etc.. The images and associated scripted crap where to convey to the masses that there are no hospitals operating effeciently in Iraq. And the masses watching with little more knowledge in the pea brains then what channel to switch too short to watch some moron show, don't have a clue as to the literally thousands of brand new and reburnished medical complexes constructed throughout Iraq in the past two years. Some as mentioned here will be like walking into a typical American hospital.

No reponse required. Where on the same brain length.

[blackie]

Killing and capturing bad guys ~ Bump!