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Iraq
20,000 Terrorists Killed
2007-12-29
Sometime on December 27, 2007, in a fierce gun battle in Al Kut, a milestone was reached.

The 20,000 AIF [Anti Iraqi Forces] terrorist was killed by our troops.

In many ways that anonymous soul typifies the war as it is now being fought. He was a Shia, a member of al-Sayyid Muqtada al-SadrÂ’s Mahdi Army, one of the Shia militias. Number 20,000 was acting in defiance of Sadr's ceasefire order and was a member of a Special Groups cell. These cells are supplied, trained and armed by Iran.

He was killed by overwhelming firepower, in a futile battle that had no other outcome but loss.

Terrorist Death Watch has all the numbers and the stories behind the numbers.

3,186 American troops havve lost their lives in defense of our freedoms and those of the Iraqi people.
Posted by:Chuck Simmins

#8  Would that this were a monthly figure.
Posted by: Scott R   2007-12-29 10:24  

#7  Note that this was killed by "our troops." Which explains why the number is so strongly low balled.

"Our troops" probably doesn't count SOCOM kills, IA kills, self defense and militia kills, private contractor (like Blackwater) kills (prolly a few thousand right there), and especially those who were so vaporized that they were never counted.

It is Pentagon policy to strongly undercount enemy dead. There are all sorts of reasons for doing so.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-12-29 09:54  

#6  Eat Truth and die, hippie scum.

THAT'S a keeper!
Posted by: Ptah   2007-12-29 08:39  

#5  When I see your name, Gromomble Oppressor of the Iowans8916, for some reason it brings up images of Shillary Rotten Clinton.

I like your analysis of our homegrown anti-American leftzis that have hovered over our Republic like some kind of culturesmog. They are living a lie, and will never be able to see the truth, unless something catastrophic happens to America, and my sense is that most of these braindead leftzis will go to their graves cursing America.
Posted by: eu=4thReich   2007-12-29 08:04  

#4  Happy New Year!! Oh, it's just the 30th? I think we should start early to celebrate this joyous milestone.

The 20K deaders seem to have strained the jihadi supply line quite a bit. Yet there are 27 million people in Iraq and 1.2 billion in the Muslim world. On the basis of the sacred Vietnam mantra, lefty celebrities, pundits, and other strategists assured us that all Muslims everywhere would rise against us, and that no conventional army or nation-state could defeat a determined insurgency. Muslims are just not buying the meme, at least not when it means facing JDAMs, SF snipers, and 120mm canister shot in Iraq.

The lefties will never draw the seemingly obvious conclusion and admit they were wrong about Vietnam in the first place, of course: Garbage in, garbage out. The meme is the important thing and they will cling to it even as their world crashes down around them and their 50 year reign of cultural terror comes to an end.

Eat truth and die, hippy scum.
Posted by: Gromomble Oppressor of the Iowans8916   2007-12-29 02:30  

#3  As argued long ago, WOT > TO DEFEAT OR DESTROY TERROR vv 9-11 event, only for the USA to become Communist Totalitarian in the style of the USSR + Commie Bloc.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-12-29 00:14  

#2  And we continue our "grim milestone" celebration.... :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-12-29 00:07  

#1  More, faster - please!
Posted by: Lone Ranger   2007-12-29 00:05  

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