Good News From Iraq

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Iraqi, MND-B Soldiers conduct ‘Operation Bold Action'

CAMP TAJI, Iraq – The 1st Mechanized Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division, along with 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, conducted Operation Bold Action April 10 to search for weapons caches near Tarmiya, north of Baghdad .

“The purpose of the operation was to provide more security near Tarmiya by chasing the terrorists,” said Iraqi Col. Saad Abu Mohammed, deputy commander, 1st Mech. Bde., 9th IAD. “This is one of the most dangerous areas where terrorists are located. We hope to find some weapon caches today.”

Although no weapon caches were found during the operation, it was still considered a success.

“There is a deterrent aspect of this,” said Maj. Bill Taylor, deputy team chief, 1st Mech. Bde., 9th IA Div., Military Transition Team. “This operation shows that we are out here (providing a safe and secure environment for the Iraqi people).”

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Iraqi, MND-B Soldiers capture five terrorists

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 9th Iraqi Army Division and Multi-National Division – Baghdad 's 1st Battalion, 66th Armor, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, captured a wanted terrorist in western Baghdad April 13 while conducting a combined patrol.

While searching an abandoned house, members of the patrol noticed three suspicious men atop a building suspected to be an insurgent stronghold.

Realizing they had been seen, the men fled. The patrol gave chase and captured two men, one of whom has alleged links to recent terrorist attacks.

A third man surrendered himself as the Iraqi Soldiers were detaining the others.

As the Soldiers surrounded the building, a vehicle approached. When the driver saw the other three suspects in custody, he attempted to flee the scene. An Iraqi Soldier stopped the vehicle with a warning shot, and the two vehicle occupants were detained for questioning.
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Tip identifies possible ID forging ring

TIKRIT, Iraq – A raid by Task Force Band of Brothers Soldiers in Samarra the evening of April 13 captured three suspected insurgents, including two believed to be part of a document forging operation.

A local source provided Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, information about the insurgents' locations.

The two suspected forgers were found at a house where Soldiers seized $2,050 in U.S. currency, more than 500,000 Iraqi Dinars, 125 various forms of identification, fake stamps for the IDs and an AK-47.

The tip leading to the capture of these suspects continues the trend of Iraqi citizens supporting the efforts of the Iraqi security forces and their partnered Coalition units.


Found this pic on a website some time ago and have finally got around to posting it. Does this asshat actually realise the message that he is broadcasting. We are a religion of peace and if you say we are not then we will cut your head off. I would explaine irony to him but think I may end up lacking a head....And lastly some really good news and you can bet El Beeb wont report a word of it:

Al Qaeda in Iraq and its presumed leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, have conceded strategic defeat and are on their way out of the country, a top U.S. military official contended yesterday.

The group's failure to disrupt national elections and a constitutional referendum last year "was a tactical admission by Zarqawi that their strategy had failed," said Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who commands the XVIII Airborne Corps.

"They no longer view Iraq as fertile ground to establish a caliphate and as a place to conduct international terrorism," he said in an address at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Gen. Vines' statement came as news broke that coalition and Iraqi forces had killed an associate of Osama bin Laden's during an early morning raid near Abu Ghraib about two weeks ago.

Rafid Ibrahim Fattah aka Abu Umar al Kurdi served as a liaison between terrorist networks and was linked to Taliban members in Afghanistan, Pakistani-based extremists and other senior al Qaeda leaders, the military said yesterday.

In the past six months, al Kurdi had worked as a terrorist cell leader in Baqouba. Prior to that, he had traveled extensively Pakistan, Iran and Iraq and formed a relationship with al Qaeda senior leaders in 1999 while in Afghanistan.

He also had ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, formed while he was in Iran and Pakistan, and joined the jihad in Afghanistan in 1989, the military said. He was killed March 27.

Gen. Vines said the foreign terrorists had made a strategic mistake when they tried to intimidate and deny Iraqis a way to vote.

"I believe Zarqawi discredited himself with the Iraqi people because of his willingness to slaughter Iraqi people," he said.

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The popes message:..."Attention has rightly been drawn to the danger of a clash of civilizations," said Benedict. "The danger is made more acute by organized terrorism, which has already spread over the whole planet. Its causes are many and complex, not least those to do with political ideology, combined with aberrant religious ideas. Terrorism does not hesitate to strike defenseless people, without discrimination, or to impose inhuman blackmail, causing panic among entire populations, in order to force political leaders to support the designs of the terrorists. No situation can justify such criminal activity, which covers the perpetrators with infamy, and it is all the more deplorable when it hides behind religion, thereby bringing the pure truth of God down to the level of the terrorists' own blindness and moral perversion."

Moral perversion, that sums up people who 'splode or fly planes into buildings in the twisted vision of Islam. Nice to see that we have a pope with a set....Now all we need is another Crusade...

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