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2006-04-28 Iraq

AIF Routed After Attacks on Iraqi Security Forces in Baqubah

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Posted by Glenmore 2006-04-28 08:02|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 looks like the AIF killed about a dozen Iraqis in an offensive, then got caught by Iraqi forces. Looks like a fairly big battle shaping up.

Bad news: AIF are still organized enough to launch a battle this big
Good news: when they do, theyre shot down, and this time by Iraqi forces.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-04-28 09:37|| 2006-04-28 09:37|| Front Page Top

#2 How very sad for them -- to die, identified not even so much as Anti-Iraqi Forces, but merely as a number of AIF bodies. Not long ago they were making victory announcements in the name of the various branches of the Lions of Islam, now they are amalgamated into a hard to remember descriptive acronym.

Ah, for the romance of yesterweek!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-04-28 10:03|| 2006-04-28 10:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Good point trailing wife. Is it just me,or have the MSM been writing more lateley like we are winning. Not alot mind you, but more often.

Posted by plainslow 2006-04-28 10:33|| 2006-04-28 10:33|| Front Page Top

#4 this is a centcom press release. Govt documents are always full of abbreviations. If the DoD using pentagonese is a sign of victory, well.....

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-04-28 10:44|| 2006-04-28 10:44|| Front Page Top

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