Posted on 07/20/2007 5:40:17 PM PDT by SandRat
AL-DHOUR With two well-timed phone calls, Iraqi civilians made a few Soldiers day recently.
The first tipster called Troop C, 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., and alerted them to a cache south of the village of Al-Dhour, south of Baghdad.
The troop responded, located the buried weapons, and was only five minutes into the process of digging them up when they got another call.
A man claimed he had the 2nd BCTs top high-value target and would deliver him to coalition custody. The man and Capt. Adam Sawyer, Troop C commander, agreed on a pickup site.
The Soldiers hastily re-buried the cache and moved out. When the vehicle arrived, they stopped it and took the most wanted man and two other men into custody.
Some of the Soldiers were still able to see the cache from their vantage point, and were surprised to see a civilian pickup truck stop there and begin hastily loading the weapons into the bed of the truck.
They engaged the vehicle with an M-240 machine gun. The men tried to flee, but the Troop C Soldiers detained them all and called an explosive ordnance disposal team to destroy the weapons.
Sawyer, a native of Reading, Pa., was jubilant about the operation.
All of this was possible because of sources weve developed, through local-national engagements and working with the residents of the area, he said. Its our work with the people in these areas, our relations with them, paying off.
The primary target is allegedly responsible for shooting down an AH-64 helicopter in April 2006, the abductions of two Soldiers in June 2006, and complex attacks on patrol bases and terrorist acts against both coalition forces and Iraqi civilians.
Additionally, he is believed to be the leader of an al-Qaida network, known to prey on the general public through intimidation and murder against those resisting compliance to the al-Qaida demands and decrees.
One of the detainees had been wounded in a previous engagement, and was taken to a coalition hospital for treatment. The other six are being held for further questioning.
Quagmire! ! !
Woo Hoo! A PA homeboy!!
Isn’t this the sort of thing the Democrats voted against today?
Yep,... encouraged by Mullah Murtha of the House and lead by Lord “Haw-Haw” Reid of the House of Lords. < / sarc
good news but it would have been better had they detained them after they assumed room temperature.
Thanks.
10th Mountain update.
The Surge is Working and Al Queda is in a Quagmire
Pray for W and Our Troops
Warm up the panties and the waterboards and get those boys talking!
LOL! “Mullah Murtha and Lord ‘Haw-Haw’ Reid”! You nailed it! They both look like they were weaned on a pickle. Go 10th Mountain. God bless our troops!
Then you must have equally low regards for “Pol-Pot” Pelosi
Sawyer, a native of Reading, Pa., was jubilant about the operation.
Woo Hoo! A PA homeboy!!
Indeed! We think along the same lines. Thanks for all your posts about the good work our troops are accomplishing! God bless ‘em all!
Yes, oh, yes....General David Petraeus has been named by the Kurds as King David...WOW...is this ever working..we’ve turned the corner...prayers are being answered!!!
I hope the tipsters survive and don’t suffer horrible, violent deaths.
IMO, this would warrant moving them to the US for a period of time and giving them new IDs.
Wouldn't Dingy Harry and Cindy Shehag make the perfect pair for a photoshopped "American Gothic" painting?
Of course, a set of horns should be added to Harry's evil noggin to complement the famous pitchfork in the original.
I'll contribute 25 bucks to the Freepathon if someone accomplishes this black magic and pings me.
Leni
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