Posted on 02/08/2006 1:23:47 PM PST by mdittmar
Following an air assault at approximately 10 p.m. Feb. 6, Iraqi Special Forces led a nighttime raid in the vicinity Bit Shaitin village near Salman Pak, south of Baghdad.
Approximately 100 Iraqi soldiers, supported by Coalition Forces, participated in the combined operation designed to disrupt and capture wanted terrorists who were reportedly operating a terrorist training camp and planning to launch attacks against Ashura Pilgrims traveling toward Karbala.
Several objectives were assaulted simultaneously.
A search of the buildings led to a cache consisting of five AK-47 rifles and 15 AK-47 magazines.
During the raid, the soldiers detained approximately 26 suspects.
Iraqi soldiers and Coalition Forces continue to search and clear the area of remaining caches and improvised explosive devices.
There were no reported casualties.
This is the lead on ABC World News tonight? No? No?!!!!!
Hooah!
Too scared to jump, too lazy to walk. Air Assault, Hooah!
Yes! Things are looking up. They've apparently had some outstanding tutors and our people are outstanding.
Twenty six suspects with 5 rifles......
Hard times?
a cache consisting of five AK-47 rifles and 15 AK-47 magazines
Start small. Guarantee success. Instill confidence.
I can't really justify the word "cache" for 5 AK47s in a country where you can't walk on the street without tripping on one. Seems pickins are getting thinner.
They are fighting for THEIR country, now. Before, they were fighting because Saddam said so.
[There were no reported casualties.]
But there may only be 24 of the original 26 captives. You'd need to motivate the others to talk.
I can't say for sure, but I seem to remember Bill Roggio saying that Iraqi forces had earlier participated in an air assault.
Oh, that's wrong, just wrong.
Not very nice thing to say to this old First Cav. pilot from VN.
Hey, I'm also a retired Army pilot.
I'm just using the line that the 82d Airborne guys use to mock the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) guys.
"We want them to understand that leadership is a responsibility, not an entitlement," U.S. Lieutenant-General Martin Dempsey told Reuters.
"That means they should be the first on patrol, the last to eat and that they are out there (fighting) with the others," said Dempsey, overall commander of military training in Iraq.
"What was completely new for me is the democracy background -- how the army serve and help civilians," said a fellow student, a middle-aged colonel from the northern city of Mosul.
Perhaps someone with more insight than I could comment on what effect, if any, those "cartoons" demeaning of Islamic Prophet Muhammet have had on "Friendly" Iraqis?
I get the impression that neighboring Iran and Syria have been making a great fuss about them for a number of reasons, but I have to wonder if one of them might be to try and turn Iraqis against "Infidel" Coallition forces.
How much have Iraqis been "offended" by that stuff, anyway?
Apparently they seem to be excersizing superior self-control than their neighbors about it, as we do not hear of the riots and embassy sieges etc. going on over there.
Karzai in Afghanistan seems to have gotten his hair up about it somewhat, but seems to have stopped short of dis-inviting the Coallition from his Country (if, in fact, he could) or ordering his forces to turn on us - as I'm sure Ahmedinutzijab (or whatever his name is) in Iran would love him to do.
Are our troops being questioned about it by the locals, and how are we dealing with any fallout there might be from that whole fracas?
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Belmont Club has a little bombshell ( at least to me):
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
The past as prologue
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The Ranting Sandmonkey, an Egyptian blog, illustrates just how bogus the MSM refusal to discuss the Danish cartoons "out of respect for Islam" is:
Freedom For Egyptians reminded me why the cartoons looked so familiar to me: they were actually printed in the Egyptian Newspaper Al Fagr back in October 2005. I repeat, October 2005, during Ramadan, for all the egyptian muslim population to see, and not a single squeak of outrage was present. Al Fagr isn't a small newspaper either: it has respectable circulation in Egypt, since it's helmed by known Journalist Adel Hamoudah. Looking around in my house I found the copy of the newspaper, so I decided to scan it and present to all of you to see.
One of those pictures is shown below.
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Go to the Link for the pictures and the rest of the commentary...
EGYPT AND THE CARTOONS By Michelle Malkin · February 08, 2006 04:53 PM
Not a permalink....
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