U.S. Reinforcements Taking Up Positions In Baghdad

AP ^ | August 5 2006 | SINAN SALAHEDDIN

[jmc1969]

U.S. reinforcements sent to Baghdad to help quell sectarian violence and clamp down on other attacks took up positions in a restive neighborhood today, while two bombs at a market northeast of the city wounded eight people.

The 3,700 soldiers of the Army's 172nd Stryker Brigade moved in from the northern city of Mosul to bolster U.S. and Iraqi security forces already in the city.

Several Stryker armored fighting vehicles were seen today in Baghdad's mostly Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliyah in the western part. Iraqi police used loudspeakers to encourage residents to go about their business and reopen shops because the troops were there to protect them.

Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the main Sunni alliance in the Iraqi Parliament, said Saturday that the country is in danger of falling into the "circle of a civil war."

In comments posted on a Sunni party Web site, al-Dulaimi said sectarianism is being "fed by neighboring countries that do not want stability in Iraq."

Iraq's Defense Ministry and police announced that 55 suspected insurgents had been captured around Mosul after a flare-up of violence there Friday. Authorities also reported the arrests of 22 other insurgents in the western city of Ramadi and two in Baghdad.

Duraid Mohammed Kashmoula, governor of Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital, said 20 militants were believed to have been killed during prolonged street gunfights with security forces in the city's eastern neighborhoods Friday.

"The terrorists thought that police were going to run away," like they did during a major clash in November 2004, Kashmoula said. "But this will not happen again. We will not give them that opportunity."

In other violence, two members of Saddam's former regime were shot dead in separate incidents today, police said.

[Red6]

I hope the kick some ass.

Go 1-17! Go Bulldogs!

[Gondring]

I guess it's okay to discuss some troop movements? :-)

[Red6]

After the fact, sure.

[shalom aleichem]

I'm waiting for someone (anyone) to stand up and say the "sectarian violence" and even talk of "onset of civil war" are caused by the politicization of the WOT. The Dems and MSM giving heart to the Terrorists and making them believe that if only they can hang on until January 2009 then the Dems will ride to their rescue and give them Iraq and probably Afghanistan and Lebanon from which to launch their agenda of universal Islamofacism.

[Flavius]

Fighting in the streets: The battle for Saigon

The fighting in Saigon was intense because the NVA/VC concentrated a significant force there in the hope of capturing the city and ending the war. The American Embassy even came under serious threat when a group of VC soldiers attacked the compound. VC Sappers (personnel who infiltrated the defensive perimeter and threw explosives into bunkers or buildings) killed U.S. Marines and MPs guarding the embassy, but the VC couldn't hold up against the American reinforcements sent in to secure the facility and were eventually all killed. Although the NVA/VC enjoyed some initial successes in Saigon and elsewhere, U.S. and ARVN forces quickly rallied and began turning them back until the hoped-for general uprising turned into a devastating defeat. As more American and ARVN forces entered Saigon and counterattacked, they had to engage the remnants of the NVA/VC in house-to-house street fighting. By the first week of February, the ARVN assumed responsibility for the remaining operations to clean up Saigon.

let us make sure that we dont pull out again after cripling the enemy

[lionheart 247365]

KICK A$$ BOYS !!!

[Abigail Adams]

Thought you might like to ping the Merry Band of Patriots!

[Popocatapetl]

Taking bets: I wager they are just about to hang Saddam!

There doesn't seem to be any great chaos in Baghdad, but the one thing that could bring every viper out of the woodpile will be the hanging of that old villain.

I suspect that we are going to come down hard and fierce on those SOBs when they do come out, however. It will be the great blow-off that represents the final great defeat for the insurgency.

[Gondring]

Well, it was announced ahead of time, too. My point was just some aspects of war stay the same, while others are very different from the past.

[La Enchiladita]

Go, Strykers!!

Thanks for posting this, keeping us updated, lest we get too distracted elsewhere.

[TexKat]

In other violence, two members of Saddam's former regime were shot dead in separate incidents

Now do the same to that Mooktarduhhhhh al Sawduhhhhh bass turd.

[patriciaruth]

A number of our guys aren't there yet, as some were already back in Alaska and a bunch more had already turned in their personal armor and weapons preparing to be sent home.

Give them a few days more and then I'll ping. These are the guys in B company who were still at Mosul, I think.

A and C company will be showing up fairly soon.