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.
No, he appears to be recovering.Damn.
We should have gone in when wackmennenjob got elected. We have photos showing him to be a terrorist.
Enough with the Chavez soundbites! It's the American public in general that needs to here it, not us.
What is Hugo and the left gonna do when Bush is gone in 09?
I hope he is right about internal uprising in Iran.
Chavez did nothing but spout classic Marxist claptrap. No wonder the DUmmies are eating it up.
What is it with Commies???? Do they LIVE in movieland??? Talk about FANTASY ISLAND!
"The fundamental principles of the United Nations." Would those be support of terrorism, embezzlement, and rape of women by UN "peacekeepers"?
Laura Bush is speaking at the Global Initiative Group that Clinton has formed, and is speaking some time today.
I have NO idea why....
May god throw a few lighting bolts at your plane as you leave, Chavez.
I don't know about that Paul Williams...he seems kind of like those professors that are coming out now, convinced that Pres. Bush planned and executed 9/11.
Rush's remarks about why the left loves Castro are remarkable. I had never really thought of it like that: they love Castro because they want his POWER. They consider the citizenry stupid, needful of their help, just like Castro...
I hate to say this...but I feel the same way....I can't shake the feeling that it is GONNA happen...sigh
Does anybody know who owns Valero Gas Stations? I'm going there now because it's cheap (2.57 a gallon in NorCal today).
It's not part of Chevez' world is it?
Really? I haven't listened to him but I despise 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
Hi Hattend. Long time no see.
John Bolton was asked to respond to Chavez remarks- he said he wouldn't dignify them with a reaction, adding we won't respond to commic strip ways of dealing with international relations...
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