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| Zarqawi Intel Leads to 452 Raids Across Iraq |
| 2006-06-15 |
| BAGHDAD, Iraq — American and Iraqi forces have carried out 452 raids since last week's killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and 104 insurgents were killed during those actions, the U.S. military said Thursday. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said the raids were carried out nationwide and led to the discovery of 28 significant arms caches. He said 255 of the raids were joint operations, while 143 were carried out by Iraqi forces alone. The raids also resulted in the captures of 759 "anti-Iraqi elements." Iraq's national security adviser called the information seized after the raid on Zarqawi's hideout a "huge treasure" of documents and computer records that had given the Iraqi government the upper hand in its fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq. National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie also said he believed the security situation in the country would improve enough to allow a large number of U.S. and Coalition forces to leave Iraq by the end of this year, and a majority to depart by the end of next year. "And maybe the last soldier will leave Iraq by mid-2008," he said. Al-Rubaie said a laptop, flashdrive and other documents were found in the debris at the house outside Baqouba, and more information has been uncovered in raids of other insurgent hideouts since then. "We believe that this is the beginning of the end of Al Qaeda in Iraq," al-Rubaie said, adding that the documents showed Al Qaeda is in "pretty bad shape," politically and in terms of training, weapons and media. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #14 Remember, grb, the mods try to limit us to one chewtoy per day -- we mustn't be spoiled, y'see. ;-) But it's so easy to do! :-) |
| Posted by: grb 2006-06-15 23:37 |
| #13 THIS IS NO TIME FOR WINNING. THIS IS THE TIME TO CUT AND RUN! SOMEONE STOLE MY MAGIC HAT ... |
| Posted by: John Kerry 2006-06-15 21:11 |
| #12 but none of the new intel seems to lead to an Iranian connection unless I've missed something |
| Posted by: mhw 2006-06-15 18:42 |
| #11 Good work OS! I can't believe I doubted 'ya! |
| Posted by: 6 2006-06-15 17:34 |
| #10 Heh, toldyaso. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2006-06-15 16:58 |
| #9 "Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Boron, Nitrogen, Carbon, Calcium, Oxygen............" ...There may be many others but they haven't been discovered. |
| Posted by: Tom Lehrer 2006-06-15 16:29 |
| #8 Bobby, that would be 759 anti-Iraqi elements. Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Boron, Nitrogen, Carbon, Calcium, Oxygen............ |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-06-15 15:49 |
| #7 Remember, grb, the mods try to limit us to one chewtoy per day -- we mustn't be spoiled, y'see. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-06-15 14:28 |
| #6 Too bad they don't really have a goal or plan themselves. Just bi+ching. Hear! Hear! grb! |
| Posted by: 6 2006-06-15 14:11 |
| #5 Don't miss the 759 captured. Quite a haul! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-06-15 14:07 |
| #4 So they are rolling up jihadis like a carpet, eh? But Iraq is *still* a quagmire, right? So many people would be sooo disappointed if it wasn't. It seems to me that people who don't understand or agree with the war will be calling it a quagmire and making other references to Vietnam until we get out or Iraq. Anything to accomplish their goal. Too bad they don't really have a goal or plan themselves. Just bi+ching. I don't know how, but most of my friends seem to be strongly against the war. They are always aware of unrelated historical events and weird ideas that seem to be the product of commiseration about speculation. I asked some of them "Do you read the blogs?" Of course the answer is always "Yes". I guess I have to start asking them which blogs they read . . . . :-) |
| Posted by: grb 2006-06-15 13:33 |
| #3 So they are rolling up jihadis like a carpet, eh? But Iraq is *still* a quagmire, right? So many people would be sooo disappointed if it wasn't. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-06-15 12:17 |
| #2 May also lead to Binnie. They'd been arguing a lot in recent months. That would be so ironic - and really piss of Binnie. An ideal way to be captured - oh the Humiliation. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-06-15 12:11 |
| #1 Wow--it's great to read that enough good and useful information survived the bombing. Zarqawi dead... papers and hard-drives salvagable... I'd call that a win-win situation! |
| Posted by: Dar 2006-06-15 12:06 |