Posted on 08/20/2006 1:49:49 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2006 – Iraqi army forces captured three death squad leaders during raids in Baghdad Aug. 18. The captured leaders allegedly participated in a massacre of Iraqi families last month, U.S. military officials reported. Coalition advisers provided support during the raids, and all three suspects were captured without incident. The men allegedly participated in a July 9 ambush of Iraqi families at a checkpoint in the al Jihad area, officials said.
One of the captured leaders is a senior-level insurgent believed to be the overall organizer of the massacre. Another is a senior-level insurgent leader whose cell allegedly established the al Jihad checkpoint. He and his cell also are believed to be responsible for kidnappings and murders in two Baghdad districts, burning and looting local businesses, and makeshift bomb attacks.
Elsewhere in Baghad, Iraqi army soldiers rescued a kidnap victim after receiving a tip from an Iraqi citizen Aug. 18. The Iraqi citizen led soldiers from 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, to a Baghdad house where the victims and a weapons cache were located. Two suspected terrorists were detained in connection with the kidnapping.
Inside the building, the soldiers seized two rocket-propelled-grenade launchers, rocket-propelled-grenade rounds, rocket-propelled-grenade charges, a rifle, and hand grenades.
In a separate Aug. 18 incident, Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers rescued three kidnap victims after receiving a tip from an Iraqi citizen southeast of Baghdad.
A young Iraqi man informed a coalition interpreter attached to Company C, 1st Battalion, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, that there were kidnap victims inside a nearby house.
The soldiers found three victims tied up, blindfolded and lying on the floor with a kidnapper watching over them. They detained the kidnapper without incident, officials said.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Gee Iraqi's are doing things on their own. < / Kerry induced false disbelief > < sneering at Kerry >
Someone forgot to inform Senator "We're Losing" McCain:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686979/posts
Help me out here. I don't quite recognize the face.
Maybe we and the Iraqi police need to change tactics and tell everyone in the country that those Iraqis found to partake in terrorism will not only be killed but their family will be killed to. That should make them think twice about getting involved.
Bravo!!! The Iraqi's are becoming more and more capable in their own affairs. Good news bump
GRRRRREAT NEWS! BTTT!
its amazing, but the mainstream media has virtually stopped writing about things that go on in iraq unless it's a terrorist car bomb. the entire 4th estate ought to be locked in the bottom of some very slow-moving ships and sent to hell.
Because the good guys don't kill innocent people if they can help it. That is one of the traits that makes them the good guys.
If you want to win a war of good vs evil, you have to kill innocents. It's what we did during WW2. Or did you forget? War is hell but you have to do certain things to win that war when your way of life is on the line. If we continue doing what we are doing now, we will never win.
Its very telling that the only good news to show up here comes from the military correspondents. The pro facist media would never report this story.
And I wonder when Murtha will demand trails for these "cold blooded killers?"
Its very telling that the only good news to show up here comes from the military correspondents. The pro facist media would never report this story.
And I wonder when Murtha will demand trials for these "cold blooded killers?"
(Trials, not trails)
Help me out here. I don't quite recognize the face.
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McCain, the RINO.
Murtha needs to hit the trails....and leave Congress..
Let's make sure that we make the Iraqis read the perps their rights, get them some lawyers, and then try them in a 3-year trial.
Good work.
Pat on the back.
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