Posted on 11/20/2006 4:00:36 PM PST by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2006 -- Special Iraqi army forces, with coalition advisors, conducted a raid today in Baghdads Sadr City neighborhood against an illegal armed group responsible for kidnapping, torturing and murdering Iraqi civilians and soldiers.
The cell has more than 30 members and allegedly uses a mosque compound as a place to conduct its illegal activity and store weapons. The cell is known to be targeting Iraqi soldiers, officials said. |
Nice, but no one detained or killed. This has to change, quickly.
Congratulation to the Iraqi Forces. Job well done!!
Bump.
Exactly. The people of Iraq need to know that the use of Mosque facilities by insurgents will result in the immediate destruction of the mosque and anyone inside it. The message must be clear; those who misuse a mosque are directly responsible for its destruction. If you want to keep your mosque, keep the bad guys out.
Probably means the "Bad Boys" had advance notice that the Iraqi SF were coming.
I hate to be cynical, but I would guess that the advance notice came from the Iraqi Special Forces.
Sounds like it was a choreographed dog and pony show.
Semper Fi
That'll teach em.
Raids are what they should have been doing instead of that rubbish with snarling traffic and making all the locals angry with 'checkpoints' they tried a while back.
Bingo. These people only understand one thing... brute force. Niceties like 'arrest' and 'detention' are laughed at. Every single insurgent we arrest should be questioned and then executed by the Iraqi gov't for treason. They won't be laughing after that.
On the otehr hand, these people love death, so maybe just killing every single one of them, on the spot, would be better. The only drawback is the lack of intel we'd gather.
Tough call, but either way they should end up in a dirt nap.
Geez, we must have sent Kerry, Murtha and Webb over there to train the Iraqi's.
Amazing what these Democrats can accomplish in only one week in power.
When will the MSM declare that the quagmire has been settled???
I'd love to wake up to al-Sadr's obituary!
How about making it known that if they take refuge in a building, said building will be leveled? Even a mosque.
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