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2007-08-17 Iraq

Odierno Highlights Operations Phantom Strike, Phantom Thunder

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-17 19:51|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Is that heavy brigade equiv. tending more toward the leadership/emir/officer role? If so then then damage is worse.

Posted by 3dc 2007-08-17 20:23|| 2007-08-17 20:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Odierno highlighted some successes of Operation Phantom Thunder, which launched June 15. In 142 battalion-level joint operations, Iraqi and coalition forces detained 6,702 suspects, killed 1,196 enemies and wounded 419 others. Combined forces also killed or captured 382 high-value targets, he said.

This is the kind of info the American people should have been hearing from Sept 12, 2001. Instead we get the picture and bio of every American killed on the Evening news. Wonder how WWII would have turned out if the evening news or papers were devoted to the 200 killed each and every day.

Posted by ed 2007-08-17 22:15|| 2007-08-17 22:15|| Front Page Top

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