Posted on 10/30/2006 3:53:12 PM PST by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2006 – Iraqi police and soldiers captured members of a bomb-making cell and several weapons caches over the weekend.
Special Iraqi police forces with coalition advisors yesterday captured nine members of a bomb-making cell and a cache of weapons, improvised explosive devices and components for making IEDs in Kut. Iraqi police secured and searched multiple objectives and detained the bomb maker and other cell members without incident. The IED cell is responsible for attacks against Iraqi civilians employed by coalition forces. They are also suspected of constructing and placing IEDs in and around Kut.
A mortar system, assault rifles, full ammunition magazines, grenades, a completed IED and components for building other IEDs were found and secured during the raid. Operations on the objective caused minimal damage.
Elswhere yesterday, special Iraqi army forces with coalition advisors captured a large weapons cache and components used for making improvised explosive devices in Western Baghdad.
Iraqi forces established a cordon around the Shansal Mosque and entered to search for IED components and weapons believed to be stored there. Insurgents operating against Iraqi civilians and Iraqi army soldiers in the Jihad district were using the items found. The weapons and IED components were turned over to coalition forces and an explosive ordnance team for security and disposal. Three suspected insurgents with false identification cards were detained.
Only minor damage to the mosque was reported. There were no casualties among Iraqi civilians, Iraqi forces or coalition forces.
In other news from Iraq, Multinational Forces West established a central Ramadi security station Oct. 27 as part of its continued operations to eliminate insurgents there.
The establishment of the security station will increase security for the citizens, officials said. More than eight new positions in the city have been established since June. The central Ramadi security station is near a recent demonstration by insurgents claiming the establishment of an Islamic Republic. As part of recent operations, several insurgents were either killed or wounded this weekend near this location. There were no reports of civilian or coalition casualties.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
They've executed some, but arresting them and trying them is a good way for them to get the courts working. Because Lord knows, their courts need to be fully functional for years to come.
I don't agree. This, in my opinion, is a perfect example of a time when justice delayed is justice denied. They don't need electric chairs; they need electric bleacher. They need to light them up with all of these mass murderers.
I believe they should place them all in the bomb making room and explode the ammunition and explosives there.
That is how Saddam ruled. We kill scads of these bozos. But when they surrender, its best to put them on trial and get teh kinks worked out. They don't take 20 years like here. A few months delayed is not too much. OTOH, if the Iraqi gov't decides to line em up and shoot them on the spot, I won't lose any sleep either.
You get peace when all of your enemies are dead. Spread peace. In other words, kill the f-ers. Now!
This is a case where proportionality and a priggish application of justice is a waste of time and counter-productive to the needs of the people of Iraq.
To me, they're way past the time when normal legal means would have solved this issue. Their parliament should take a vote and pass a law allowing for it. That way it's legal. There should be an impartial review board, and they should assure that this doesn't become a tool for unsanctioned revenge killings. I'm talking about martial law.
They've had martial law in pockets. No sense doing it for the entire country since most of the country is doing alright. The bottom line is this: Three distinct factions are going to have a tough time making hard or quick decisions. They've been in power for about a year? They have no sea legs. That is why we need to be there. The war is over. Now its about stomping out criminal, sectarian enterprises. Its best that the Iraqis do as much of that heavy lifting as possible. And in many cases they are. Look at SandRats daily posts to see that not everything is going to hell in a handbasket there.
Thanks, I picked up on some of that during my time there. Problems are only really in three provinces for the most part.
And there is definitely some locales where the problems are acute. Hence the need, IMO, to snuff the fat little sadr, amongst others.
You served over there?
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