Posted on 04/05/2008 5:41:54 AM PDT by lowbuck
Eleven days after Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki launched Operation Knights' Assault in Basrah, the picture of the fighting in the city has become clearer. Maliki launched the operation after giving limited notice to Multinational Forces Iraq, and an inexperienced Iraqi Army brigade from the newly formed 14th Division cracked doing the opening days of the fighting. Basrah Operational Command rushed in forces into Basrah, including Army and elite police units, to stabilize the fighting, and six days after the operation began, Muqtada al Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army to stand down in Basrah, Baghdad, and the South. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at longwarjournal.org ...
Roggio has done a great job again. How many people remember THIS story that he covered extensively? Why don’t we hear about Hezbollah in Iraq?
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/07/iran_hezbollah_train.php
> ... Maliki pushed up the time schedule for the
> operation by months, ...
Which may have have done because Maliki is impulsive,
as one of the comments at the source speculates, or
it may have been done to prevent the Madhi Mob from
preparing.
In any event, Maliki now know what his resources can
accomplish, and oh by the way, don’t do it quite
that way again.
Sending in green troops is not a very smart move.
They need to keep the heat on and remove these criminals from the streets. That is one of the first order functions of a government.
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