Roy Hallums Rescued - Not a word on the BBC about this - & More on the war in Iraq that we are winning.

BAGHDAD , Iraq -- At approximately 11:20 a.m. Sept. 7, Coalition Forces rescued American Roy Hallums and an Iraqi citizen from captivity in an isolated farm house located 15 miles south of Baghdad . The identity of the other man is being withheld pending notification of his family by the Iraqi government. Hallums is in good condition and is receiving medical care. Hallums had been held since being kidnapped at gunpoint from the offices of his employer in the Monsour district of Baghdad on November 1, 2004.

Information provided by an Iraqi detainee in Coalition custody lead to the breakthrough. Coalition Forces immediately planned and executed a raid on the farm house to capitalize on the information before Hallums could be moved to another location.

Mr. Hallums provided this statement following his rescue: “I want to thank all of those who were involved in my rescue – to those who continuously tracked my captors and location, and to those who physically brought me freedom today. To all of you, I will be forever grateful. Both of us are in good health and look forward to returning to our respective families. Thank you to all who kept me and my family in their thoughts and prayers.”

BAGHDAD , Iraq – Iraqi security forces and Task Force Baghdad Soldiers detained more than 50 terror suspects on the evening of Sept. 4 and in the early-morning hours of Sept. 5 in Baghdad .

During more than a dozen operations, Iraqi and U.S. forces combined efforts to defeat terrorist activities and promote security and safety to allow for the continued progress toward a free and democratic Iraq .

At 7:30 p.m., a Task Force Baghdad patrol stopped a suspicious vehicle in northwest Baghdad and discovered several incriminating pieces of evidence, including the last will and testament of a suicide driver. The U.S. Soldiers detained five suspects for further questioning.

At 11:40 p.m., another Task Force Baghdad unit conducted a cordon-and-search operation in north Baghdad after receiving information about terrorists known for emplacing improvised explosive devices. During that operation, the U.S. Soldiers detained 27 suspects and seized automatic rifles and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher sight.

Shortly after midnight, Iraqi security forces launched 10 simultaneous raids in an area south of Abu Ghraib, netting 25 suspected terrorists.

** Nice to see that the cages in Cuba will soon be refilled with more Islamonazi vermin. And now the first pic of the day "borrowed from orsm"

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If only we are as tough on the Osama fans as the US:
DETROIT (AP) -- A man who was discharged from the Air Force amid allegations he expressed sympathy for Osama bin Laden was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison on charges that he lied to get an airport job.

U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman sentenced Sadeq Naji Ahmed, 25, of Dearborn on two counts of making false statements. Ahmed was convicted in May.

Ahmed was accused of lying to the government about his Air Force discharge in order to get a job as a security screener at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Prosecutors said he lied on a 2002 Transportation Security Administration questionnaire when he said he never left a job under unfavorable circumstances and when he failed to disclose that his security clearance had been revoked.


And what does this chap wash his socks with?
LONDON (Reuters) - A British Muslim convert charged with plotting acts of terrorism had socks with traces of explosive in his luggage when he was arrested in France, prosecutors told a court Tuesday.

Andrew Rowe, 34, who denies the charges, had been under surveillance by British police for about a year before they asked their French colleagues to hold him in Calais in October 2003 on his way back from a trip to Frankfurt.

A search of his luggage revealed two socks rolled up into balls that had traces of explosive, the prosecutors told the Old Bailey criminal court in London. The socks were connected by a length of cord.

The prosecutors said the traces of explosive were of a sort likely to be found in mortar shells or other military ordnance.

MORE ON 7/7 THE TERROR LINKS COMING TOGETHER?
MOSUL, Iraq, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A man captured in August north of al-Qaim, Iraq, had a computer "thumb drive" that contained planning information about the July 7 London suicide bombings, a U.S. military officer has revealed.

Col. Robert Brown, commander of the 1st Brigade 25th Infantry Division in Mosul told United Press International the man was connected to the al-Qaida terrorist network.

He declined to discuss the specific nature of the information on the small computer drive, variants of which store between 8 and 256 megabytes of data, but said it indicated al-Qaida involvement in the attacks on London's bus and subway system.

The drive is the latest piece of information linking the al-Qaida leadership to the bombings, in which four British Moslems killed themselves and 52 others.



NAJAF HANDED OVER TO THE LOCALS.
NAJAF, Iraq -- The U.S. military pulled hundreds of troops out of the southern city of Najaf on Tuesday, transferring security duties to Iraqi forces and sticking to a schedule that the United States hopes will allow the withdrawal of tens of thousands of its forces by early spring.

The handover came as Marine F/A-18 jets bombed two bridges near the Syrian border, hitting infrastructure in an area where insurgents have maintained effective control despite off-and-on offensives by U.S. forces. Insurgents have used the bridges to move fighters and arms across the Euphrates River toward Baghdad and other cities, the U.S. military said.

In the same area, U.S. warplanes later destroyed a building that insurgents had used to fire upon American and Iraqi troops, a U.S. military statement said. At least two suspected foreign fighters were killed, the military said.

Suspected insurgents in the same western province, Anbar, kidnapped the son of the new governor in Ramadi, the provincial capital, officials said Tuesday. Insurgents kidnapped the previous Anbar governor in May; he was killed in a U.S. attack on the house where he was being held.

U.S. Marines have a force of about 5,000 to cover the province's 24,000 square miles. American officers in Anbar say the Marines are too few to bring the province under control, but U.S. and Iraqi officials say the U.S. raids have helped disrupt the flow of bombs and recruits into the rest of Iraq...

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