Posted on 01/22/2007 1:04:20 PM PST by NormsRevenge
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday 93 rebels were killed and 57 captured in a 10-day operation against al Qaeda-linked insurgents northeast of Baghdad.
In an unusually detailed video news conference broadcast to journalists in Baghdad from Diyala province, Colonel David Sutherland said Iraqi troops had fought well in the operation and were improving their capabilities every day.
He said 25 weapons caches, including around 1,200 Katyusha rockets, had been found during operations dating back to November in the area around a remote village called Turki.
Sutherland said U.S. and Iraqi forces had gradually isolated the insurgents since November before launching the 10-day assault backed by air strikes from January 4 to 14. Last week, the Iraqi army said it had killed about 50 rebels in the area.
"Since I've been here we have not conducted an operation ... against a group of this size that were willing to fight us out in the open," Sutherland said. "This operation shows ... there's partnership between Iraqi army and Coalition forces."
Diyala is a violent province where Shi'ites, Sunni Arabs and ethnic Kurds are increasingly divided on sectarian lines.
You see this, Dog? Good news!
They just take it off as soon as they possibly can so that no American is ever encouraged about Iraq....
Traitors to the core.
We are still in Germany and Japan and Kuwait and Africa and South America and on and on. We are everywhere for all time. I would just get used to it. You will lose less sleep that way.
alway the Al'Roots spin-job
Excellent!
According to the MSM, however, it's just a photo op to take attention away from President Bush's bound-to-be failure of a State of the Union address tomorrow night. < /almost sarcasm >
BTTT!
Why censor my comment #33 when I said the same thing? Strange and pointless.
Or #34, whichever one it was.
It appears the old "body count" of enemy bodies is starting to appear. Our military may as well give the figures. The MSM is breathlessly giving a daily body count of our side. There may as well be some sort of comparison.
#33 was removed at its poster's request.
My comment disappeared. It was either #33 or #34. Oh well. No big deal.
The only deleted comment on this thread, #33, was posted by paulat, and (as mentioned before) was pulled at her request.
I don't define what is going on in Iraq as a civil war. NBC does, but I don't.
Where is post #34? I posted "Only a mod can edit titles" or something to that effect. Notice there is no post #34. It's a mystery! :-D
I promise I made a post and it is no longer here. Again, no big deal, I just thought it was strange.
Oops, sorry, didn't catch that. I have no idea what happened to #34, and am equally in the dark about the former headline addition, other than knowing it wasn't me.
We must have an alien entity within the sytem.... stuff appears....the headline..... and disappears with no tracks other than a number...... comment not showing at all....very strange....
I don't know; given today that Senator Warner, the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee introduced a senate resolution saying he doesn't support the additional troops in Bagdhad, the enemy must be encouraged. All they have to do is a few more bombs and Warner, et al, will start to cut fundings. History repeating itself; abandoning our troops, supporting the enemy....the "men" in the Senate have no balls.
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