Posted on 11/12/2005 5:47:12 PM PST by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12, 2005 – U.S. and coalition forces today took down a suspected al Qaeda safe house and put an enemy mortar team out of commission during two separate raids in Iraq, according to U.S. military press releases. U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, 3rd Brigade, soldiers captured a terrorist mortar team near Baqubah. The terrorists had set up their equipment when the U.S. soldiers encountered the enemy position, officials said.
The terrorists then directed rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire at the Americans, but the enemy detachment was quickly overwhelmed. Six terrorists were captured along with their mortar tube, six mortar rounds, the RPG launcher and four RPG rounds, officials said.
A seventh terrorist was killed in the exchange. No U.S. injuries were reported.
And, U.S. and coalition forces raided a suspected al Qaeda safe house located in the village of Qazwan, near Ramadi, Iraq. The dwelling was suspected of being a base of a senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader operating in the Ramadi area, officials said.
Four terrorists were killed and four others were detained during the raid. Two of the detainees were wounded while resisting capture. The wounded detainees were taken to a nearby coalition hospital for medical treatment and are expected to recover, officials reported.
Coalition forces had cordoned off the area before the raid and called in close-air support during the engagement.
(Information compiled from Multinational Force-Iraq press releases.)
Ted and John are deeply saddened.
I'm waiting for the claims of innocent civilians killed and brutalized. What a war!
Thanks guys.
The dwelling was suspected of being a base of a senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader operating in the Ramadi area, officials said.
Four terrorists were killed and four others were detained during the raid.
At first I was confused by the word terrorist being used as I had seen it so rarely in the media. I couldn't make any sense of it, then I noticed the source. It's amazing what difference using the correct terminology makes.
Forget the "capture" part....just KILL the mo-fo's! That way we don't have to molly-coddle the bastards.
I hope teddy and johnny have a whole lot more days where they find themselves deeply, deeply saddened.
Hat's off to our Troops!!
These safe houses are having problems.
I want them both so clinically depressed that men with the white coats and the butterfly nets have to permanently relocate both of them to individual rooms with rubber wall paper.
Yooohooooooo!!
Next month is their death sentence. So, this period is when they are active. Therefore also vulnerable to counter attacks.
Once the Sunnis participate in the parliamentary elections, it is game over. If they don't, and continue on with this terrorism, the hammer will come down after the elections. So, either way, they lose.
I could be wrong but it seems like the tide is really turning in Iraq but the media would really rather ignore our successes and obsess over Karl Rove and how President Bush's numbers are low.
The terrorists then directed rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire at the Americans, but the enemy detachment was quickly overwhelmed. Six terrorists were captured along with their mortar tube, six mortar rounds, the RPG launcher and four RPG rounds, officials said.
Why are these guys always captured ?
Why aren't they shot trying to elude & evade ?
Sent to "Secret " or " Not-so-secret " CIA prisions? Gitmo? Abu Ghraib ?
I don't know or care. I hope they rot in hell though.
I like your way of thinking!
Hope they like the prison in Romania (/sarcasm ...)
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