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| Iraq |
| Marines Raid Shatra Looking for Chemical Ali |
| 2003-03-31 |
| U.S. Marines launched a dawn raid on the town of Shatra, north of Nassiriya, on Monday, aiming to assassinate senior Iraqi officials they believe are directing attacks again invasion forces, Reuters reported. Among those targeted was Ali Hassan al-Majeed the cousin whom President Saddam Hussein has put in charge of the southern front. If he is a hands-on type of thug, it makes sense he'd be down south somewhere. Communications must be bad about now. The Marines were storming the town, about 35 km north of the city of Nassiriya, with warplanes dropping precision-guided bombs, helicopter gunships and tanks. Marine officers said they had intelligence from anti-Saddam groups that Majeed was in Shatra with other senior officials in Saddam's Baath party who were coordinating paramilitary forces that have ambushed U.S. supply convoys and slowed the advance on Baghdad. The targets in Shatra were the local Baath party headquarters and "associated planning sites", Marine officers said. "We believe there are about 200 to 300 Baath party loyalists and Saddam Fedayeen irregulars in the town," said Marine company commander Captain Mike Martin. Seal it off and flush out the rats. |
| Posted by:Anonymous |
| #1 Grab the bastard and threaten to send him to Kurdistan if he doesn't spill the info. THEN send him to Kurdistan. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-03-31 12:18:48 |