Go Squadies!
Posted on 04/15/2007 6:15:09 AM PDT by Fletch357
British ‘shoot 27’ in hunt for Turbinator
Sarah Baxter in Washington and Hala Jaber
IT BEGAN as a hunt for militia leaders in Basra including a terrorist known to British forces as the Turban or the Turbinator and ended with “26-27 enemy” killed, according to an account by an independent American blogger embedded with the British military in Iraq.
Michael Yon was with UK troops as they launched a bold attempt to flush fighters into battle in daylight last week as part of Operation Arezzo, named after the site of a medieval Tuscan battle. The town was liberated by the British during the second world war.
In his dispatch, Yon describes how UK forces “baited the enemy” into fighting. Preparing for battle to the sound of the Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter, he wrote, “the Brits went into hostile terrain, outnumbered, without helicopter support, relying instead upon timing, terrain, manoeuvrability, firepower and sheer audacity . . . The enemy was at times on both sides of us, firing from many positions, on the ground and on rooftops”. There were no British casualties.
Lieutenant Colonel Justin Maciejewski, commander of the battle group, “intended to show the enemy that even in their strongest bastion, outnumbered British forces could strike into their heart and inflict heavy losses”, Yon wrote.
They struck again yesterday, killing eight gunmen who had apparently been laying land-mines in an area of Basra where four British soldiers and their civilian translator were killed by a roadside device earlier this month. “These militiamen were intent upon launching the same type of attack in the same area,” said a military spokesman.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
This is worth a look,
US “Blogger” Michael Yon embedded with UK forces....
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/british-forces-at-war-as-witnessed-by-an-american.htm
Thank you, Brits! Good job! I wish the media would tell this story.
“The enemy was at times on both sides of us, firing from many positions, on the ground and on rooftops”.
Sounds like a Conservative’s day in Washington.
Maybe the Brits will help us clean that town up also.
I just saw senator levin on tv and there is not now, nor can there ever be any, “GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ”. We are doomed. The demonRATs are traitors.
Sometrimes I wonder if the cleanup shouldn’t be done the same way...
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