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Iraq
Kurdish battalion moves towards Baghdad
2007-01-17
A predominantly Kurdish battalion based in this northern city has started the march toward Baghdad,
Ah. Now we know why the rats insurgents are fleeing
as the Iraqi military gears up for a major security operation aimed at pacifying the Iraqi capital. Hundreds of soldiers boarded dozens of jeeps, Humvees and trucks on Monday to begin the trip to Baghdad, 260 kilometres away.

Members of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 4th Division will undergo more specialized military training before being deployed in the capital, said Brig Gen Anwar Golani, the brigadeÂ’s commander. He said the training would be conducted at a base in western Baghdad under the supervision of US troops.
Posted by:Fred

#7  MacNails, at a very minimum it will get them away from the MSM's hotels and make the issue much harder to misrepresent in the US press. If it does that, it will be a bargain.
Posted by: RWV   2007-01-17 21:13  

#6  Que the "Empire" theme from Star Wars...


Posted by: mojo   2007-01-17 12:34  

#5  In all my years , I have never witnessed a war fought on a primary basis of appeasing the press ..

We better have a contigency plan for picking off these runners , or its just a fruitless operation , IMHO
Posted by: MacNails   2007-01-17 04:22  

#4  I doubt that any operation involving the Iraqi government could've been kept quiet. Especially if the Prime Minister's office was involved.
Posted by: Pappy   2007-01-17 01:25  

#3  It's to fuckin late for a hammer and anvil. They would hit each other. Thanks to us telling everybody that "we are going to send troops in to fight you next month".

The Kurdish operation in Bagdad could have been the goose that laid the golden egg, but nooOOoo! The U.S. had to go and make it infertile.
Posted by: Mike N.   2007-01-17 01:04  

#2  US troop surge hammer into a peshmerga anvil?
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-01-17 00:34  

#1  Me like. A Kurdish occupation of the capital for some time might work out real fine. Only negative in all this is that this is the MOST telegraphed operation we've had - which is saying something, unfortunately - and thus the vermin will have scurried before the rocks are kicked over.

Is it too much to hope that, after so many instances of the enemy fleeing a telegraphed op, we pre-positioned and otherwise postured ourselves and the IA to harvest some of the vermin leaving B'dad to the west and north?

Yep, probably .....
Posted by: Verlaine   2007-01-17 00:17  

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