News From Iraq

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Bin Laden associate killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD , Iraq – Coalition and Iraqi forces killed a wanted terrorist, Rafid Ibrahim Fattah aka Abu Umar al Kurdi, during an early morning raid March 27 in the vicinity of Abu Ghraib. Officials report and confirm that Abu Umar al Kurdi had ties to Jaysh al Islami, Ansar al Sunnah, Taliban members in Afghanistan , Pakistani-based extremists, and al Qaeda senior leaders to include Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri.

Over the past six months, the targeted terrorist worked as a Jaysh al Islami cell leader in Baquba and allegedly was involved in the kidnapping of an Iraqi woman. Abu Umar al Kurdi traveled extensively throughout Pakistan , Afghanistan , Iran and Iraq over the past 15 years and met and formed a relationship with al Qaeda senior leaders in 1999 while in Afghanistan . In the 1980s he formed ties with the Muslim Brotherhood while in Iran and Pakistan , and then he joined the jihad in Afghanistan in 1989. Within months he was given the title of an al Qaeda ambassador and attended military training camps near Jalabad where Osama bin Laden often visited. In 1991 he returned to the Muslim Brotherhood in Peshawar and in 1992 moved to Iraq , joining the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan. Throughout the 1990s until his death, Abu Umar al Kurdi moved between Iraq , Iran , Afghanistan and Pakistan holding various positions to include serving as a liaison between terrorist networks, as an operations officer responsible for coordinating the activities of the various terrorist groups, and as a security chief for a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan .

A detainee who admitted his own affiliation with JAI claimed that Abu Umar al Kurdi recruited him into the terrorist organization. The detainee claims he joined in Sept. 2004 when Abu Umar al Kurdi introduced him to the leader of JAI.

The detainee also told officials that Abu Umar al Kurdi kidnapped and murdered a female hostage several months ago. Officials confirmed the hostage taking and are currently investigating the alleged murder.

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Iraqi Army Soldiers discover multiple weapon caches

BAGHDAD , Iraq – Four weapons caches were uncovered during the continuation of a combined operation between Iraqi Army and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers in southern Baghdad April 10.

In the early morning hours, Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, and Company D, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, conducted a search in the Tigris River valley to locate suspected weapons caches.

During the first phase of the operation, Iraqi Army Soldiers found pre-made roadside-bombs, encased in concrete, ready to be transported and used against Coalition Forces, said Capt. Jared Rudacille, commander, Company D, 1st Bn., 22nd Inf. Regt. During the second phase of the operation, the Iraqi Army and MND-B units air assaulted into the area to find additional caches not found during the first phase, he added.

In total, the four weapons caches consisted of seven RPG rounds, three machine guns, 28 70 mm mortar rounds, 38 60mm mortar rounds, landmines, a large bag of homemade explosives, a sniper rifle, grenades, 13 pre-made roadside-bombs, ten rockets, 403 linked rounds of small arms ammunition, three bags of linked ammunition and 5,000 rounds of sniper-rifle rounds.

Once the caches were under control of an EOD team, the Soldiers moved on to destroy five boats used to transport weapons across the Tigris River .

“This area is a staging area for attacks both across the Tigris and into our area of operations as well,” said 2nd Lt. James Stephan, assistant security officer for 1st Bn., 22nd Inf. Regt. “The weapons and material found here confirm our suspicions that the enemy is concentrated heavily along the palm groves and riverbanks in the area.”

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Coalition Forces conduct raid northwest of Balad

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces raided a safe house at 4:20 a.m. April 13, approximately 50 kilometers northwest of Balad, capturing two and killing two terrorists. One of the terrorists killed was wearing a suicide vest.

The forces were attempting to capture the terrorists, two of whom were already positioned together outside when the troops arrived. The forces shot and killed two when they identified one was wearing a suicide vest and the other was armed with an AK-47.

One detainee was apprehended immediately when the troops approached the safe house, and the other was detained during a search of the terrorist hide out.

Additionally, the troops found an explosives cache near the house, and subsequently destroyed the lethal material.

No civilians were injured during the conduct of this raid.
Tags: Al Qaeda
War on Terror
Iraqi Army
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Malcolm Kendall-Smith

One final bit on Iraq although this has nothing to do with the brave troops risking life and limb out there - think what you will of the reasons behind the war, Blair and co twisting the reasons, WMD and all the rest of it, the simple fact is that the troops have to go out to a war when ordered.

Every day they put their lives on the line and do their best to improve the situation in Iraq or what ever trouble spot they get sent to. But now and then we get a quisling, a sniveling gutless coward who is nothing more than a disgrace to the uniform that he wears.

I refer of course to Flt Lt Malcolm Kendall-Smith, a self indulgent tosser of the first order. He says that he refused to go as the war was illegal. Oh well thats all right then, well no simple fact is he was happy to draw a pay check from the forces for many a year but when it came time to see action he bottled it. There is an old forces saying about taking the Queens shilling, he took it and in days gone by he would have been put up against the wall in record time.

Part of his "defence" is that he studied the Nuremburg Principals and came to the conclusion that the war was illegal. Well at least the military court saw him for the amoral coward he was and he can can snivel and cry himself to sleep all he wants whilst sitting in the glasshouse for the next 8 months. The coward said that he failed to resign his commission when he decided on the illegality of the war as he claims he had not recieved a direct order to deploy to Iraq.

No doubt he will appeal his dishonorable discharge and go a crying to the leftwing media about how badly he was treated, the illegal war and how his rights have been oppressed. But lets hope that a few people out there shun the coward who let the rest of the forces down. Lets hope he gets to watch "The Four Feathers" whilst sitting in his cell and realises he needs to grow a set. Link to the coward story

FROM THE MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS ENDOWMENTS

Check this chap out, really shows the tolerant attitude of Islam...

AND SOME MORE FROM THE RELIGION OF PEACE.

AND NOW FOR THE MOHAMMED CARTOONS BIT

Infidel Banking, not for me thanks!

Lloyds TSB is launching a series of products compliant with Islamic Shariah law, which forbids followers of the religion from receiving or paying interest.

They are now on offer at 30 Lloyds TSB branches in England, but the bank's first in Scotland will begin in Glasgow at the end of this month. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/59841.html

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