33 Detained in Iraq; Insurgent Training Site Destroyed

American Forces Press Service ^

[SandRat]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2007 – Coalition forces detained 33 insurgents and destroyed a terrorist training facility this week in operations across Iraq.

In raids in Iraq yesterday:

-- Coalition forces in Karmah captured 11 suspected terrorists, including a high-level al Qaeda courier with ties to senior al Qaeda in Iraq personnel.

-- Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, with Iraqi army troops, detained seven suspected insurgents near Baghdad. The insurgents are allegedly responsible for acts of terrorism in the region.

-- Coalition forces detained four suspects responsible for facilitating foreign fighter movement in Bayji.

-- Coalition forces in Baghdad captured three individuals with ties to senior al Qaeda in Iraq leadership.

-- Coalition forces detained three suspected terrorists, including the leader of an IED cell, in Ramadi.

Also this week in Iraq, soldiers from Company D, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, and Iraqi army soldiers found and destroyed a suspected insurgent training site Jan. 27 while patrolling northwest of Samarra.

At the site, combined forces found 20 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, one 82 mm mortar tube with a base plate, four 60 mm mortar tubes with base plates, a car battery and more than 7,000 large caliber machine gun rounds. An explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the weapons and buildings.

In Baghdad on Jan. 27:

-- Paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), with Iraqi police, discovered two large weapons caches, containing 669 57 mm mortar rounds.

-- Fifteen Iraqis died when two car bombs detonated in a New Baghdad commercial district.

-- A Sunni mosque was damaged during heavy fighting between insurgents and neighborhood residents in a southwestern section of the city.

In a separate operation that day, paratroopers of Company A, 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, with Iraqi army soldiers, found and secured an IED west of Iskandariyah.

The day before, paratroopers from Companies A and C, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division had detained five suspected insurgents attempting to emplace an IED in a town 20 miles south of Baghdad.

(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)

[SandRat]

FR WAR NEWS!

WAR News at Home and Abroad You'll Hear Nowhere Else!

All the News the MSM refuses to use!

[Lucky9teen]

But I didn't think there were terrorists there..


BooRah!!!

[DCPatriot]

Gotta run...but I'm sure I'll be able to read this in the Washington Post tomorrow, yes? /s

[princess leah]

Guess the mainstream media didn't feel like reporting good news huh?

[knarf]

OK .. it seems that all we've wanted to happen is now happening.

My question is ... did it really take so long to put it together, and the timing is ironic ... or are we going to go in and kick some @$$ and President Bush leaves office with a great, big smile ... war won, troops home?

[Marine_Uncle]

One can only imagine how busy you are going to be once the US/Iraqi control of the capital goes into play. As the camel humpers continue to slip out of the capital and immediate surronding provincial hot spots, we just may hear about a lot of A/G activities taking out those who attempt escape, and manage to entrench in new holes.
Will you become overwhelmed in the reporting role? Guess time shall yield an answer.

[freeangel]

bttt

[SandRat]

Yes it took a long time to train up a real security force. Iraq like most Soviet models there was no NCO Corps and real sense of repsonsibility for actions at any level save for abject fear. Add to that what military train there was under the old regime was barely squad level with really no Professional training at the Officer or NCO level. We had to start from scratch across the board and force them to shall we say "DRINK FROM A FIRE HYDRANT."

The last thought you had will just be a bonus.

[SandRat]

I welcome that challenge gladly.

[Right_in_Virginia]

BIG BTTT for our heroes....doing what has to be done!

[Son House]

" heavy fighting between insurgents and neighborhood residents "

Who say's one man's terrorist, is another man's freedom fighter?(actually, a confessed lib told me)

It'll be national night out, for a while, to clean up the neighborhoods, thanks for the help, Neighbor!

[Marine_Uncle]

I know you will not falter in the least.

[Marine_Uncle]

I wish what you said here and I have eluded to for some two years was better understood by our readership. A lot of needless and often senseless arguments could have been avoided on no skins chaffed.
So many do not understand the nature of how the Arab militaries under soviet instruction where operated.
Non Com had no meaning in their military protocals, as you are accutely aware.

[Billthedrill]

What's bubbling up is the result of a whole lot of patient intel gathering. And intel gathers more intel. I'd love to know what they got from those five senior Iranian operators, for instance. Got to stop thinking about it - I'm salivating on the keyboard.

[SandRat]

Going even further any Soviet hardware sold to non-europeans was laughingly referred to as a Monkey-Model by the Russiya Zampoli when out of hearing range of all but their known Party Komarade.

[SandRat]

Remember Intel is a jigsaw puzzle, a little here - a corner there - a couple of pieces in the middle here - and pretty soon you have an actionable picture. Yet all this must remain sub-rosa from the public for good reason. A reason that the fifth-estate and the current political party in power in the US refuses to understand and honor.

[Marine_Uncle]

I do get the gist of the manner. But the bastards are still so damn dangerous. And GWB knows. He just has to appear to be willing to go along with the current trends of diplomacy. That eye to eye crap did not fool me for one minute.
Putin and crew have, had, and never will have intentions of getting friendly with us. Their hundred year paronia does not permit such a cuzy relationship. Besides. They need the warm weather ports. That is a geographic reality that will never change the equations between us and them. Iran is soooo inviting.
But I am sure I say nothing you are not onboard with. Do have a great upcoming day. Time to hit the sack, before the sack hits me. Do have a great upcoming day.

[El Gato]

including a high-level al Qaeda courier

Hopefully he'll have had documents that will allow us and the Iraqis to find and round up or kill even more Jihadis.