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| 50,000 Iraqi Insurgents Dead or Caught |
| 2005-07-26 |
| From The Washington Times, an article by Sharon Behn U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed or arrested more than 50,000 Iraqi insurgents in the past seven months, a former top general who has headed repeated Pentagon assessment missions to Iraq said yesterday. Gen. Jack Keane, a former deputy chief of staff for the Army, also said the United States has a good picture of the leadership of the vicious insurgency but less of an idea about its mid- and lower-level ranks. Pentagon officials previously had been quoted as saying 15,000 to 16,000 Iraqis were in custody in Iraq, but spokesman Lawrence DiRita was unable to comment last night on the 50,000 figure offered by the general. .... The retired general has traveled to Iraq twice in uniform and twice as a civilian to assess progress there for the U.S. military. He did not explain how the number had been obtained. ... "There are thousands of people in jail who have a body of evidence against them -- some should be receiving death sentences, some should be in jail for life sentences," Gen. Keane said. .... He also said American commanders have found it difficult to penetrate the insurgency. Despite painstaking work undertaken to sift through thousands of interrogations and field reports, a clear picture of the midlevel structure of the insurgency was hard to see. ... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #8 Megadittoes to what Frank said. |
| Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro 2005-07-26 21:25 |
| #7 an MS bone to balance the JihadUnspun orgy? thanks, but a lot more balance needed |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-26 20:19 |
| #6 Why keep em out of Iraq? Let em come on in, the terrorists come to us where we can kill them. The Hard Boyz are easier to shoot out in the open desert than they are in London, sadly. But Sounds like a sweet deal to me. The foreign jihadists also delegitamize the homegrown Sunni insurgency, as if it needed any more delegitimization-(I'm not sure that's a word), but you get me here. Every time these dumbass splodeydopes kill innocent children and do so in the name of an "insurgency" normal Iraqis grow more and more ready to join the democratic process to drive them out. Risk of sectarian war grows, but that was going to happen anyway. The Badr brigades and Peshmerga haven't forgotten what the Sunnis did to them while Saddam was around, and they will get their revenge! EP |
| Posted by: ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-07-26 19:14 |
| #5 Ohhhhhhh. All those poor "Iraqi civilians" we have killed. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-07-26 17:23 |
| #4 How many are really Iraqi's and how many are other (IINO)? My guess would be that most insurgents are imports. Perhaps initiating some border patrol policies / procedures would drop the insurgency level and the techniques could then be applied on our borders. Yes, I know, wishful thinking. |
| Posted by: Michael_in_TN 2005-07-26 12:57 |
| #3 To this I say: Kill even more!! |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-07-26 10:37 |
| #2 Now, try to break that record. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-07-26 09:09 |
| #1 Its a start. Come on boys, theres more work to be done. |
| Posted by: JackAssFestival 2005-07-26 08:50 |