Anbar Tribesmen Defeat Al-Qaeda Cell

Iraq Slogger ^ | March 18 2007 | Zeyad Kasim

[jmc1969]

Armed tribesmen in the Eastern Husayba village (5 km east of Ramadi) in the Anbar Governorate managed to drive out a local insurgent group associated with the Al-Qaeda in Iraq organization from their village, while residents discovered a mass grave of 16 citizens killed by militants in the area, Sot Al-Iraq reported.

The campaign started Friday after gunmen abducted a local boy named Yassir, prompting his mother to go out on the street screaming and urging the villagers to carry arms and find her only son. Dozens of men from the area armed with pistols, rifles and machine guns grouped and started searching the palm orchards surrounding their village while shouting tribal battle cries.

They located and captured the insurgent cell of 11 men before sunset and released the kidnapped boy. The tribesmen reportedly handed over their prisoners to the Ramadi Police Directorate. Also, a mass grave with the corpses of 16 missing residents of the village was discovered at the nearby Al-Shadda area.

[ARE SOLE]

Good

[GovernmentShrinker]

The tribesmen reportedly handed over their prisoners to the Ramadi Police Directorate.

Should've dispensed some harsh tribal justice on the spot, and delivered just the heads to the Police Directorate.

[sarasmom]

Why should they have done that?

Don't both we and they want barbarism, tyranny and militia/mob aggression rule ended?
Citizens arrest accomplished. They can always revert to mob justice, but at least it seems some of them are trying to do the right thing.

[Pox]

Some people need killing. Any member of AQ meets that criteria, IMO.

Doing the right thing is pointless if in the end you die from your generosity, IMO.

[Cvengr]

This is good news. Regardless the particulars, legitimate authority is being respected.

[Fred Nerks]

Dozens of men from the area armed with pistols, rifles and machine guns grouped and started searching the palm orchards surrounding their village while shouting tribal battle cries...

sounds like they've had enough.

[jmc1969]

Tribal chief Sattar controls the police force in Anbar. In fact the Iraqi government made him chief of counter terrorism in Western Iraq. With nearly 40,000 tribal fighters under his command now getting funded by the Iraqi government and the US it makes him a force to be rekoned with in Iraq. Best of all he is a secular and non-sectarian.

[jmc1969]

ping

[BIGLOOK]

Takin' care of business......ping.

[SuziQ]

The campaign started Friday after gunmen abducted a local boy named Yassir, prompting his mother to go out on the street screaming and urging the villagers to carry arms and find her only son.

What is that saying about Hell having no fury like a pi$$ed off Mama?

Good for these folks. It's wonderful to hear stories of them standing up for themselves against the foreign thugs and some home grown ones, too.

[oneamericanvoice]

Now that's what I call progress!

[coloradan]

Dozens of men from the area armed with pistols, rifles and machine guns grouped and started searching the palm orchards surrounding their village while shouting tribal battle cries.

Benefits of an armed population.

[airborne]

The 'Surge' has given the Iraqis courage to stand up to the terrorists.

They are realizing that it's now or never, and that this is their last chance to support American troops, who are trying to free them.

JMO.

[McGavin999]

The tribesmen reportedly handed over their prisoners to the Ramadi Police Directorate.

Now that took some REAL discipline! They seem to be taking several giant leaps forward.

[Dilbert56]

Rather unique the way this "civil war" is operationalized.

[Ancient Drive]

Power the Iraqi people

[SandRat]

FR WAR NEWS!

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

All the News the MSM refuses to use!

Or if they do report it, without the anti-War Agenda Spin!

[Marine_Uncle]

The good news continues to roll in. Sure looks like the light bulb finally has lit. AQIR is going to find it very difficult to operate anywhere in al Anbar including most likely even the remotest desert beduine villages. No place to hide, they will have to fight it out either with the tribes units and or combined with the Iraqi forces and our Army and Marines.
Al Qaeda is on it's last breath in this region as far as I am concerned. And one could think, a strong message is going out to all the foreign promoters that the cause is really lost in Iraq for them. New arrivals will only get killed as soon as detected.
Syria, Iran, the Sudan, Morocco, Algiers etc., must be very unhappy with how things are shaping up.