Posted on 09/20/2006 8:39:10 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
More News from Iraq the Junk Media will not report to you.
Leaders Highlight Successes of Baghdad Operation
Defend America News ^ | Spc. Jason Dangel
Posted on 09/19/2006 10:18:13 PM CDT by SandRat
Leaders Highlight Successes of Baghdad Operation
During the three day operation, Iraqi National police and U.S. Army soldiers rooted out terrorists and death squads.
By U.S. Army Spc. Jason Dangel BAGHDAD, Sept. 19, 2006 -- The Rasheed District Advisory Council (DAC) Chairman and Multi-National Division – Baghdad's (MND-B) 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, hosted a question and answer session with local and international media outlets at the Rasheed District Advisory Council Headquarters in southern Baghdad Sept. 13.
Mr. Sabeehr Al-Kaabi, Rasheed DAC Chairman, and Lt. Col. James Danna, commander, 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, took the opportunity to discuss recent security operations in Baghdad’s Risalah neighborhood while highlighting the successes of Operation Together Forward.
“We had great support from the Rasheed District Advisory Council members who brought up to us their concerns about the situation in Risalah and what they thought were the causes for the problems - and some potential solutions,” said Dana, during an opening statement to Iraqi and Western media outlets.
The operation in Risalah dubbed Operation Relentless Hunt, lasted approximately three days, as Iraqi National Police and U.S. Army soldiers completed the search of the southern portion of Risalah and surrounding areas, said Danna.
During that time, Iraqi National Police detained 8 suspected terrorists and confiscated more than 60 illegal weapons during the door-to-door knock and enter operation.
Both officials praised the efforts of the Iraqi National Police, particularly the 8th and 6th Brigades of the 2nd NPD, who have been working with MND-B soldiers in neighborhoods throughout southern Baghdad.
“The easy part of the operation has been completed,” Danna continued, referring to ongoing security efforts in Risalah, during which Iraqi Security Forces and MND-B soldiers searched more than 2,800 homes and buildings.
“The more difficult period of the operation is the holding and the building phase, which is setting the conditions of confidence in the local residents so they can get on with life without the threat of terrorists committing violence in their neighborhood,” he said.
Since the conclusion of the search operation in Risalah, citizens once displaced because of violence brought on by terrorists and deaths squads are now beginning to return to their homes, said Al-Kaabi.
This operation, like many of the missions in support of Operation Together Forward, paved the way for improvements in essential services while simultaneously providing security for the Iraqi citizens living in the Rasheed District, he said.
Now that the neighborhood has been searched, the new focus will be helping the local residents improve their working and living conditions, continued Al-Kaabi. Plans for new water, sewage and electricity systems, and construction of new schools and hospitals, will be put into effect as the DAC convenes and finalizes plans with U.S. military engineers.
Al-Kaabi and Danna both said they are optimistic that the upward trends will continue as Iraqi Security and Coalition Forces continue to root out terrorists and death squads responsible for civil strife in southern Baghdad.
“I have great confidence in the long-term success of this operation because when we talk to the people in those neighborhoods, they do not accept nor condone the violence going on in their areas,” Danna said.
“I believe if we give them the chance and set the security conditions, we will achieve a larger lasting effect on the people in the surrounding areas,” he said.
During the three-day operation, MND-B soldiers and ISF seized 17 AK-47 assault rifles with 33 magazines of ammunition, 23 pistols, two SKS machineguns, five rocket-propelled grenade launchers with 18 RPG rounds, four grenades, 14 mortar rounds, five rockets and a large amount of bomb-making materials.
OK, No clue what the Star Wars bar scene is.
Nooooo. I'm sorry. Leftism there has been. Anti-imperialism there has been. This country has been the LEAST deserving of that name in history. We gave up our last colony when we gave up the Phillipines. In my opinion we should be a lot MORE imperialist. If we're going to get blamed, let's RUN things, we'd do them a lot better. The combination of Islamo-Fascism, Communism and this other bilge is a result of 24-hour media and internet hype and is of a new nature that needs to be combatted with everything we have. If that makes me a REACTIONARY, then I glorify REACTION!
Yes sleuth, I believe George Noory had Paul Williams on also. I didn't hear it tho.
Well...actually Nutjob WAS at the podium LONG after Bush left...
BUT, I get the point...and I am angry with you.
What if Bush went to Venezuela and stood up and called Chavez a terrorist and a the DEVIL???
Would the audience laugh and just sit there?? or, do you reckon there would be riots out the doors??
re: clinton
why was he there yesterday?
Clean out your ears. Rush is blaming the media and left for NOT REPORTING THE OUTRAGEOUS CONTENT of their speeches that should most definitely be reported since they are here in our country and behaving irrationally.
Most Americans don't keep up with these dictators. It's the media's job to keep us informed and Rush has a very good point.
The way you lifted that quote, I need to log off for about 10 years;) Quick readers will think it's me!
There are one or two bright lights there at Dee You. Maybe FReeper infiltrators;)
"9. Chavez is nuts. Whether he believes that or not, it's poor form to say something like that at the UN.
"12. Agreed. We would be criticizing Bush if he used language like that. And even did criticize him when he used terms like Axis of Evil. But its Hugo, he gets a pass. Solves nothing and sounds like old Communist Rhetoric with the "Yankee Go Home" line. Calls Bush the Devil, but cozies up to people like Ahmadenijad."
He is just pointing out how the Dems, Tyrants, Despots, and Terrorists all share the same agenda.
Defeat Bush at all costs, America be damned.
Yep. Call me crazy, but I can just FEEL it. I don't WANT that to happen, but I truly believe, deep down, that it WILL sometime soon.
It's beyond time to take off the gloves. We have a lot of nukes that are itching to go off. I say we scratch that itch asap.
I haven't seen it for years, but the bar scene in Star Wars has all these really strange aliens getting drunk on weird concoctions and starting bar-room brawls with all their antennae and third eyes going everywhichway. Rush often says that the United Nations has as many strange and loony critters as that scene of obviously imaginary characters...
Anyone catch the source of the article that Rush just mentioned regarding the loon from Iran?
TY. I get it.
Democrats Rush to Condemn Chavez Remarks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704948/posts
Get ready for a ROTFLYAO
Picture a scene where you have a collection of the most bizare and weird looking patrons in a smoky bar. Sort of like the UN.
I'm outa here..
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