Islamic HQ falls to Iraqi Kurds

BBC ^ | 3/28/003 | Jim Muir

[Heff]

Seriously, what's wrong the New York Post. Its the same owner as Fox News.

[Grampa Dave]

Compost is an old name for the Washington Post.

Most of the time the NY Post is right on track.

The Compost/Washington Post publishes the left wing lunatic bias of its reporters, editor and publishers and hides them as news.

[wardaddy]

Witty.....damn good!

I may have to borrow that.

[MJY1288]

This is becoming a Quagmire < \sarcasm > off

[RightWhale]

Why did it take so long to organize the Kurds and defeat Ansar al-Islam?

The Kurdish forces are getting organized and are becoming effective. This is a positive development for eventual autonomous or semi-autonomous self-rule. Those who have served in the military have a good chance of implementing a civilian government afterwards. It's like working together on a major project and bonding by building mutual trust.

[a_Turk]

Isn't this the town Saddam had gassed?

[aristeides]

Halabjah (next to the Ansar camp) is the town Saddam gassed. It's very close to the Iranian border.

[ScholarWarrior]

I agree.

[denydenydeny]

He said the survivors had fled into the mountains towards the border with Iran and he predicted that the area would be completely clear of them within 24 hours...Neither they nor the Kurdish Peshmerga forces want the group to be left active behind their backs when they turn their attention to the Iraqi front lines to the south.

Reading between the lines here, I notice that the word "prisoners" seems to be missing from this article.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[A senior official of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Peshmerga guerrilla group which carried out the operation in conjunction with US special forces, said that around 70 Ansar al-Islam adherents had been killed and that all their main centres had been overrun...He said the survivors had fled into the mountains towards the border with Iran and he predicted that the area would be completely clear of them within 24 hours...]

Thanks, Kurds, for taking out the trash. Good job all.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Yes, this is starting to drag on as well. Not sure if the Kurdish people were expecting this to take so long.

Tommy Daschole has expressed deep sadness and concern.

[Argus]

Iran is known to be deeply unhappy

Oh, just wait. Soon they're gonna be absolutely miserable.

[holdmuhbeer]

Gee, sounds like they're in a quagmire.

[Technogeeb]

Iran is known to be deeply unhappy about US forces conducting operations so close to its border

Correction, the Iranian government is known to be deeply unhappy about US forces in the area. The opinion from last week of an Iranian friend was "Can we be next?".

[WOSG]

fascinating, good news and there is no news on the TV on this.