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2008-03-30 Iraq

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2008-03-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Mahdi Army

#1 Four plus two plus sixteen. Gonna be a rush job to get all the virgins ready in Paradise.

I think I just figured out why terrorists like to use human shields . . . .

Posted by gorb 2008-03-30 03:23|| 2008-03-30 03:23|| Front Page Top

#2 The word of the day is still criminal. I wonder show soon it will change to infidel.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-03-30 07:54|| 2008-03-30 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 What do you mean, Nimble Spemble?

Posted by trailing wife 2008-03-30 09:06|| 2008-03-30 09:06|| Front Page Top

#4 delegitimizes their activities, TW

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-30 09:50|| 2008-03-30 09:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks, Frank. No wonder they call you The Commodore

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-03-30 11:04|| 2008-03-30 11:04|| Front Page Top

#6 :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-30 11:47|| 2008-03-30 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Key takeaway here is that the ISOF are very capable and very deadly on their own terrain, especially with US air support (the likely role of the US-SOF troops, coaching, spotting and calling in the Boom).

Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-30 12:08|| 2008-03-30 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 You do come in handy, Frank. :-) I'm looking forward to the time when "Infidel American", or perhaps just "american", becomes an Iraqi epithet of high praise.

Posted by trailing wife 2008-03-30 12:31|| 2008-03-30 12:31|| Front Page Top

#9 ISOF is interesting. I'm guessing it takes a few years to make a capable special forces soldier, since you have to start with a pretty darned good regular soldier and go from there. If ISOF is capable of these operations it suggests that they're pretty well along in their training and ability.

Perhaps other Arab states should be taking note, and calculating how far along ISOF will be in a few more years.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-03-30 17:36|| 2008-03-30 17:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Commodore Frank G got his moniker through Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, MSD, OStJ, Fijian Navy, known commonly as Commodore Frank Bainimarama and sometimes by the chiefly title, Ratu.

Commodore Frank deposed the previous Fijiian President, and did not suffer fools kindly.

Just a bit of Rantburg history.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2008-03-30 21:51|| 2008-03-30 21:51|| Front Page Top

#11 crap, AP! Thank God I didn't have to spell those names!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-30 21:59|| 2008-03-30 21:59|| Front Page Top