20 Terrorists Killed, Weapons Caches Destroyed

American Forces Press Service ^

[SandRat]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2006 -- Coalition forces killed 20 terrorists this morning while targeting al Qaeda terrorists in the Thar Thar area, military officials reported.

Coalition forces targeted the location based on intelligence reports that indicated associates with links to multiple al Qaeda in Iraq networks were operating in the area.

Ground forces were searching buildings at the targeted location when they began receiving heavy machine-gun fire from one of the buildings. The ground forces returned fire, killing two armed terrorists.

Despite efforts to subdue the remaining armed terrorists, officials said, coalition forces continued to be threatened by enemy fire, causing forces to call in close-air support. A coalition aircraft performed the air strike, resulting in 18 more armed terrorists killed.

During a search of the objective, coalition forces found multiple weapons caches consisting of AK-47s, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, anti-personnel mines, explosives, blasting caps and suicide vests. All these items were destroyed on site.

Coalition forces also found that two of the terrorists killed were women. Al Qaeda in Iraq has both men and women supporting and facilitating their operations, officials said.

(From a Multinational Force Iraq news release.)

[SandRat]

FR WAR NEWS!

WAR News You'll Hear Nowhere Else!

All the News the MSM refuses to use!

[California Patriot]

Outstanding!

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Excellent!!! It'll never make the MSM "news."

[OrioleFan]

Time to rewrite the Baker-Hamilton surrender document!

[stockpirate]

Didn't they read the new report?

They should have opened talks with the 20 disgruntled men and asked what we could do to make their lives better.

Boy! I am telling you.

/*scarasm off

GREAT NEWS

[bpjam]

Apparently, this is the type of this the Surrender Study Group means when they say we are losing over there.

[river rat]

While I enjoy reading of the death of 20 Islamists, we shouldn't put more meaning to it than it deserves...

I've had squads who killed more VC or NVA in a single morning ambush, on MANY occasions..

To get the job done in Iraq or Afghanistan, we need to be killing the enemy AND their supporters, families and friends by the 10s of thousands..
Until entire areas where Islamists operate with impunity are LEVELED, the population will not move against them.

This enemy will not be defeated by killing only their lunatic Jihadists.. The people themselves need to be bled white and exposed to RELENTLESS hardships, deprivation and fear to defeat the Islamist mindset and believe in their superiority..

If we continue to fight their war on their chosen site by their chosen technique -- they win over the long haul.

Semper Fi

[r9etb]

The VC and NVA were fighting a different kind of war.

[freepersup]

The 'PC' warrior ethos is anti to everything that a 'successful' US warrior stands for... sad, really...

by the tens of thousands... Amen!!!

PC kills, every time!!!

[Logical me]

I'm afraid you are exactly right. As bad as it sounds, this is gorilla war with a very cruel and vicious enemy.

[river rat]

Not different enough to alter my observations or comments..
We made most of the same mistakes in Vietnam as we are making in the middle east....

We are NOT pursuing to the death, the enemy, his population or his supporters populations....

We offered NO QUARTER or SANCTUARY to Japan or Germany....
We destroyed entire cities, areas, dams, infrastructure, etc, etc. etc.....

Hell we're BUILDING in Iraq and Afghanistan!
We are attempting to improve the life of their citizens, before we have dealt an unsurvivable defeat to the enemy --- Militant Islam and the concept of Jihad together with all who support it...

They have declared a no constraints war against us, and we're trying to win "hearts and minds"..

The ONLY successful strategy ever demonstrated to accomplish that - was when the enemy's ass was kicked into an irresistible direction and his heart and mind followed by necessity..

Semper Fi

[r9etb]

We offered NO QUARTER or SANCTUARY to Japan or Germany.... We destroyed entire cities, areas, dams, infrastructure, etc, etc. etc..... Hell we're BUILDING in Iraq and Afghanistan!

Also not the same kind of war we're dealing with in Iraq. And in case you missed it, after Germany and Japan surrendered, we helped Germany and Japan to rebuild.

Your big mistake here is in thinking that the US can solve the terrorist problem if we will only act violently enough. Didn't work in Vietnam, and it wouldn't work here.

It's ultimately up to the Iraqis to solve this problem. If they, not we, tolerate these murderers in their midst, there's nothing we can do about it. If they decide to clean them out -- and there are some indications they're willing to do so -- then Iraq will be OK. Not perfect, but OK.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

To get the job done in Iraq or Afghanistan, we need to be killing the enemy AND their supporters, families and friends by the 10s of thousands..

I extremely agree with you -- more than I can ever agree with anyone on this topic EVER.

[TET1968]

You don't start rebuilding until you have wiped out the terrorists and those who support them. That's why rebuilding worked in Germany and and Japan.

Tomorrow morning's headlines should read:
Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi army of up to 60,000 fighters have been annihilated by coalition forces.

[Comus]

Do gorillas around the world have a say in this?

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Funny how some NEVER get it.

[river rat]

" Also not the same kind of war we're dealing with in Iraq. And in case you missed it, after Germany and Japan surrendered, we helped Germany and Japan to rebuild."

I believe those who have the opinion that the war against militant Islam is a "different kind of war" -- make their first mistake.
There are only TWO kinds of militarily fought wars -- those you fight to win and those you lose.

The Islamic world is currently fighting the only kind of war they can mount without exposing their nation homes to total destruction --- and we should not permit that.
Once nuclear capable - rest assured they WILL find a means to deliver it with NO regard for the violence or mayhem they deliver.

If the Islamic world wishes to survive, THEY should take the lead in leashing in their lunatics - rather than suckling them.

What YOU have missed, is that we commenced building in Germany and Japan AFTER they had accepted UNCONDITIONAL surrender terms following their TOTAL DEFEAT.....NOT before the fighting had ended.

Militant Islam is to Islam as stink is to shit...
They are inseparable.
Those who profess to be pious Muslims have refused to act sufficiently against the lunatics in their midst...

On that basis -- they may all have to suffer the consequences of violent behavior to others....
Unless of course we decide to be the dumb asses of all time and voluntarily decide to commit suicide and await their moves to destroy us..

"Your big mistake here is in thinking that the US can solve the terrorist problem if we will only act violently enough. Didn't work in Vietnam, and it wouldn't work here.

I suspect most rational folks would acknowledge that we obviously haven't acted violently enough against those that deserve the violence, since the main supporters of the violence against the coalition haven't been harmed in any significant manner.. They are being granted free kills with no consequence...

Extreme violence worked magnificently in Vietnam...
Every bastard we killed, stayed killed.. I was never again threatened by any of the corpses we left behind.
The mistake there, again -- was INSUFFICIENT level and duration of the violence..
There again -- sanctuary was granted the enemy and their supporters were unharmed..

My position has always been the same.... We should NEVER go to war, unless we are prepared to swiftly with devastating and overwhelming violence -- destroy VAST numbers of the enemy, his homeland, his friends, his family and supporters...
To do otherwise is a criminally irresponsible use of our warriors --- and an open invitation to every crackpot in to the world to strike us at will.

If we are not prepared to do that -- we should surrender or stay home, for they have already defeated us.

A "super power" who attempts to minimize death and destruction to the enemy and his homeland while defending our own homeland -- is simply a paper tiger.

Semper Fi

[Logical me]

Probably have more sense than most of the brain dead here in the US.

[Logical me]

Just so you don't get it:

guerrilla