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Iraq-Jordan
U.S-Iraqi offensive launched near Syria
2005-06-07
BAGHDAD, June 7 (UPI) -- U.S.-led Iraqi troops mounted a major offensive against insurgents in northwestern Iraq Tuesday, near the largely unsupervised Syrian border.
That'll give the Syrians something to think about during the Baath party conference
In its first hours, 16 suspects were detained in what CNN described as a major military operation involving tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and helicopters. In the run-up to the campaign, some 4,000 U.S. troops were shipped into the area around the city of Tal Afar. The troops moved door-to-door on narrow streets, backed up by about 100 tanks and armored personnel carriers. There did not appear to be heavy resistance, but scattered gunfire and mortars could be heard, the report said.
Meanwhile in Baghdad, Iraqi security forces, backed by U.S. troops, continued a major crackdown on terrorists called Operation Lightning, which has resulted in hundreds of arrests.
Posted by:Steve

#9  Jack-
Haven't heard that expression in a LONG time - 379 BMW(H), 78-84.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2005-06-07 19:05  

#8  "if you live in hope, you die in shit"

I couldn't help but think of Bubba.
Posted by: anymouse   2005-06-07 15:54  

#7  I would love to see these guys in Syria's presidential palace...

U.S. Dignitaries

If the link does not work...

I would love to see these guys in Syria's presidential palace...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39069000/jpg/_39069271_palace_troops_ap300.jpg
Posted by: RG   2005-06-07 12:29  

#6  Could just be they heard someone was hanging out in that area and decided to check it out, just to remind the local assclowns who really runs Iraq right now.
Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom   2005-06-07 12:27  

#5   "if you live in hope, you die in shit".

A damn fine sentiment. Hell, I feel like getting up and inspecting Whitman.
Posted by: Curtis L   2005-06-07 12:22  

#4  Border? I didn't see any border!

Where are the signs? The checkpoints? The border guards?

Are you sure the Syrian border is here? My GPS says it's 10 miles west of here. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-06-07 11:30  

#3  Hot pursuit - all the way to the Med!
Posted by: Frank G   2005-06-07 10:03  

#2  I'm hoping the car bombing going on right now was all planed prior to these operations, and they will begin to die out.

As we use to say in SAC - "if you live in hope, you die in shit". The only way to stop the bombings is to do more than randomly hit the ratlines. You need a hammer and an anvil. The only way to do that is to place a blocking point in Syria and hammer them up against it from Iraq or the opposite - unlikely to occur due to the sovereignty issue. But the Iraqi's could get tire of all this horse-shit and start infiltrating and causing some major figure disappearances and disruption of the leadership via selective assainations.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2005-06-07 09:55  

#1  It's beginning to sound like, more areas of the country are being able to be secured by the Iraq's themselves, allowing the US and some Iraq soldiers, to do what needs to be done, kill the bad guys before they kill the soldiers. I suspect this will begin to put a crimp in the terrorist agenda in the long term. I'm hoping the car bombing going on right now was all planed prior to these operations, and they will begin to die out.
Posted by: plainslow   2005-06-07 09:30  

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