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| Iraq |
| Huge Fight in Suq Ash Shuyukh, 40 Terrs KIA |
| 2008-04-20 |
| A combined force of more than 300 Iraqi Army, Iraqi Police and Iraqi Special Weapons and Tactics personnel, advised by U.S. Special Operations Forces, arrested 40 criminal militia members after coming under attack in Suq Ash Shuyukh, southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, April 19. Forty criminal militia members were killed during the armed confrontation with ISF, including the group’s top two leaders. Twelve ISF members were reported wounded. Using assault rifles and automatic weapons, the criminal militia attacked Iraqi Security Forces on the morning of April 19. Regional police and Army forces on alert in the area responded in force, overwhelming the outnumbered criminal militia fighters. Facing a combination of armored vehicles and suppressive fire, the criminals retreated to building that contained the local Sadr Trend office. With ISWAT providing support, additional security forces launched a counter attack, overrunning the remaining enemy defenses. The ISF entered the building and cleared it of the remaining criminals. During the sweep of the building, ISF found a large weapons cache containing explosively formed penetrators, Katyusha rockets, rocket propelled grenade launchers and a large quantity of additional weapons and ammunition. An explosive ordnance disposal team also found several improvised explosive devices rigged to explode inside the building. All weapons were destroyed on site. Many local Iraqis witnessed the fighting and thanked the ISF for their bravery and willingness to defend their town. “The response of the combined ISF force represented an incredible leap forward by Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army to conduct joint operations,” said a U.S. Special Operations Forces advisor. “Iraqi police and Iraqi Army executed a counter attack against a determined enemy and quickly gained control of the situation.” The operation was part of the Iraqi government’s continuing fight against terrorists, insurgents and criminals standing in the way of a safe and secure Iraq. In recent months, ISF personnel have assumed greater autonomy to plan and conduct these types of operations unilaterally or with Coalition forces. Information indicated the criminal group used the city as part of its smuggling network to move improvised explosive devices, including armor-piercing explosively formed penetrators, throughout the region. |
| Posted by:Chuck Simmins |
| #10 Can we not have any mention of Mad Madeleine "Flapping Jowls" HalfBright and 'loins' in the same thread, please? MY loins is cringulating at the very thought. Thank you. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-04-20 23:35 |
| #9 as long as there's no video...puhleaze Ima just retchin way back into my ridiculose voCABulose Morphemes!! and soo guilty as charged /an havin fun tho, self-fun! >:) |
| Posted by: RD 2008-04-20 22:27 |
| #8 as long as there's no video...puhleaze |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-04-20 21:36 |
| #7 I know RB is kind of freewheeling at times, but should we really be talking about girding our loins in public? :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-04-20 21:29 |
| #6 I only gird on Tuesdays and alternating Fridays. And removing the gird in order to pee is permitted IF one eye is kept on CNN at all times while one is performing the deed. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2008-04-20 21:03 |
| #5 OK, I girded my loins, but should I take it off for a piss or a shower? What if I have to pee on an important news day? Ima perplexed |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-04-20 18:41 |
| #4 The Clintonistas, Libtards, the left and the over 60s Rads Etc. Etc. have already declared Iraq a COMPLETE DEFEAT. YES.. 1)"Flapping Jowls" HalfBright, 2) Richard "Chicken Hawk" Holbrooke. (yep, he is) #3) John "Open Porfolio" Deutch. #4) James "What's that smell in my mouth" Schlesinger #5) David "ZERO" Gergen #4) Christiane "Mrs. Mustache" Amanpour & Mr. Jamie "Mustache" Amanpour, and these American Traitors will continue to do so in their speeches and writings, no matter if every Iraqi converted into a Jew or a Christian yesterday and begun practising Corruption-Free Capitalism by tomorrow. BTW Ladies and Gentlemen: Gird your Loins: for after this comming demoCrap primary we will all be witness to the largest MSM campaign Ever to get their Presidential candidate elected! This is their last hurrah! And there will be NO SHAME, and NO Balance for their LIES and Half Truths that will be sold to you as Truth for BO Plenty. Prepare yourselves Ladies and Gentlemen The volume of lies alone will take your breath away, surely they will be without precedent. |
| Posted by: RD 2008-04-20 18:28 |
| #3 40 KIA + 40 captured. That's one mob put out of action. I wonder what the Iraqi govt is going to do with the prisoners? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-04-20 16:01 |
| #2 the criminals retreated to building that contained the local Sadr Trend office. trending down, I'd say.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-04-20 15:42 |
| #1 What? Many local Iraqis witnessed the fighting and thanked the ISF for their bravery and willingness to defend their town Obviously they haven't been reading daily kos. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2008-04-20 15:35 |