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| Three Terror Suspect (sic) Killed in Iraq Fighting |
| 2006-06-30 |
| Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces clashed with insurgents during a raid on a village northeast of Baghdad, killing three terror suspects and wounding three others, the military said Friday. Terror suspects? You mean they were killed without having their Miranda rights read to them? Is this a positive step? Getting 'terror' into the headline, or negative, since they are now suspects? The American and Iraqi soldiers were called in after Iraqi police came under fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades while trying to enter the village of Daliqiya near Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. The coalition forces, backed by air support, chased the insurgents into a house, engaging in a fierce gunbattle that left three fighters dead and three wounded, the military said, adding that four other suspects were detained. "Coalition forces are currently conducting a thorough search of the village in an attempt to identify any other anti-Iraqi forces in the area," spokesman Sgt. Doug Anderson said in a statement. The U.S. military has staged several raids in the area since al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed there earlier this month and said Thursday it has gained an advantage Oooohhhh....an advantage! in the fight against the terror network. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq, acknowledged Iraqi civilians were suffering most from the insurgency, accounting for 70 percent of all deaths and injuries, while the number of U.S. casualties did not appear to be on the rise. But he said the Americans gained momentum in their fight against al-Qaida in Iraq after killing al-Zarqawi, and have devoted a lot of resources to targeting his successor as leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri. "There is no question, if we can take him down, that will just disrupt the organization ... to the point where it would be ineffective for a long period of time," Caldwell said. "It is very disorganized right now. And it is very disrupted right now." He said coalition and Iraqi security forces had captured or killed 57 foreign fighters this month. "The reason we were able to pick up and track some of these mid-level people ... in the last few weeks is because they've been forced to conduct meetings, to get out and be more visible, because their system has been so disrupted," he said. "And that has given us the opportunities to find them, track them and go get them." |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #1 was this before or after the SCOTUS siad GITMO detainees couldn't be tried, so the boots on the ground ar ensuring that the trials won't be needed? "We jes' following da rules, sir." |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2006-06-30 14:17 |