Posted on 05/30/2006 4:19:05 PM PDT by pissant
BALAD, Iraq – Iraqi forces raided two targets in the Karada area of Baghdad on May 30 and detained seven individuals responsible for improvised explosive device, or IED attacks against Iraqi Security Forces.
The first target was a dormitory on the campus of the Baghdad Technical University where two student cells, operating out of dormitory rooms, built IEDs and later initiated attacks against Iraqi Army and Police forces. Iraqi forces detained four students on this target.
On the second target, an apartment building near the campus, Iraqi forces detained three cell leaders responsible for emplacing IEDs made by their student cells. All three cell leaders are believed to be Palestinians, and they were financed by a local business.
This cell is responsible for at least two attacks against Iraqi security and police forces in the Karada area. The first attack, in December 2005, resulted in no casualties. The second attack, in January of this year, killed several Iraqi police officers riding in a vehicle.
No Iraqi forces were killed or wounded during this operation.
Yet another example of the improvements we made in that hellhole.
It would not suprise me if there are a number of professors giving $$ for jihadi activity. At a bare minimum, they give to International ANSWER, the anti-american commie bastards that work for our defeat.
I have no idea. But I'm guessing not all jihadis are poor, down on your luck types.
Closes in June...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1727465,00.html
Abu Ghraib to close
Agencies
Thursday March 9, 2006
The notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is to be closed, probably within three months, the US military said today.
Around 4,500 prisoners at the detention centre to the west of Baghdad will be transferred to other prisons.
A US military spokesman said operations would transfer to Camp Cropper, a new detention facility at the US military headquarters at Baghdad airport, Reuters reported.
The base at the airport currently holds more than 120 high-security detainees, including Saddam Hussein.
Outrage was caused around the world in 2004 when images emerged of US troops abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib the year before. Ten low-ranking US personnel were convicted over the abuse scandal.
Reuters said US forces were currently holding more than 14,000 people in four jails in Iraq, more than half of them at Camp Bucca, in the south of the country.
Earlier today, Iraq hanged 13 insurgents, marking the first time militants have been executed in the country since Saddam was toppled almost three years ago.
The death penalty in Iraq was removed in the immediate aftermath of the US-led invasion in March 2003.
But Iraqi authorities reinstated it after the official end of the US-led occupation in June 2004, so they would have the option of executing Saddam if he is convicted of crimes committed by his regime.
The first people to be executed were three murderers who were hanged in September last year. They were convicted of killing three police officers, kidnapping and rape.
Today, announcing the first insurgents to be executed, the Iraqi cabinet released the name of one - Shukair Farid, a former policeman in the northern city of Mosul.
Farid allegedly confessed that he had worked with Syrian foreign fighters to enlist fellow Iraqis to carry out assassinations against police and civilians.
A statement from the Iraqi cabinet said: "The competent authorities have today carried out the death sentences of 13 terrorists."
It said Farid had "confessed that foreigners recruited him to spread the fear through killings and abductions".
Saddam is currently in the dock in the first of a series of trials over alleged genocide and crimes against humanity. In the current trial, he and seven co-defendants face charges of massacring more than 140 people in Dujail, north of Baghdad, after an alleged assassination attempt against Saddam in 1982.
Death sentences must be approved by Iraq's three-member presidential council headed by the president, Jalal Talabani, who opposes capital punishment.
Both for the September executions and again today, Mr Talabani refused to sign the authorisation himself but gave his two vice-presidents the authority.
In other developments, the US secretary of defence, Donald Rumsfeld, told a congressional hearing that if civil war broke out in Iraq the US military would depend on Baghdad's security forces to deal with it "to the extent they are able to".
Earlier this week Mr Rumsfeld said reports had overestimated the possibility of civil war breaking out in Iraq following the sectarian clashes provoked after insurgents destroyed an important Shia shrine in Samarra last month.
Today he conceded there was a high level of "tension in the country, sectarian tension and conflict", but he added that it had not yet become a civil war "by most experts' calculation".
Mr Rumsfeld said: "The plan is to prevent a civil war, and to the extent one were to occur, to have the - from a security standpoint - have the Iraqi security forces deal with it, to the extent they are able to."
He said the key to avoiding civil war is for Iraq's political leaders to succeed in their efforts to form a government of national unity.
Mr Rumsfeld and the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, expressed their support for the Bush administration's request for £53bn in funds. The administration wants the money to pay for the US military's presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
48 hours? BS, give me 10 minutes...8-D
nope, those are the suicide bombers. That and the teenagers and mentally handicapped.
Bummer. I was hoping a few more panties on the head wouldd be coming.
Pretty much sums up the idiots. I did note that the arrested were Palestinians.
Denny Hastert immediate expresses his outrage, no doubt [/sarcasm]
Ouch!
This should throw a little cold water on Fat Jack's "massacre" party.
He's ignored every success to date, so he's not likely to start paying attention now.
Or stick them in a radio controlled van and give them nice long rides down the boobytrapped highways and bi-ways.
Are these students Iraqi's, or from somewhere else?
I don't know about the students, but the cell leaders are "Palestinians". They make great imported psychopaths for every islamic cause.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.