Good News From Iraq

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Terrorists killed, hideout destroyed
TIKRIT, Iraq – Iraqi Police killed two terrorists when the two men attacked a police patrol in Tal Afar May 11.

Task Force Band of Brothers Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division arrived on scene to assist the police and conducted a search of the building the terrorists were using.

The Soldiers uncovered a false wall that led to a tunnel system and another hidden door that opened into a room used as clandestine sleeping quarters.

The “Ready First” Soldiers discovered a variety of weapons and munitions scattered about the tunnel and underground room. A Katusha rocket, 10 rifle grenades, four mortar rounds, three IEDs and two mortar tubes were seized.

An explosive ordnance disposal team conducted a controlled detonation of the weapons and munitions, destroying the house and tunnel system to prevent terrorists from using them again.

Three police officers were wounded in the initial attack and transported to the Tal Afar hospital.

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Partial termination of Parsons Global Services, Inc., hospital contract announced
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division, announced that the Joint Contracting Command-Iraq and Afghanistan partially terminated the contract with design build contractor Parsons Global Services, Inc., due to insufficient progress and associated escalating costs which are expected to exceed available funding for the renovation of eight remaining hospital projects across Iraq.

The renovation effort for these eight remaining hospitals will be completed with current program funds and construction continues uninterrupted as the contracts were immediately re-awarded by JCC-I/A directly to the onsite Iraqi firms as fixed-price contracts.

“The eight hospital renovations will continue without interruption and be completed by Iraqi contractors with current program funds under the supervision of the U.S. Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division. Iraqi companies continue to demonstrate the willingness and capability to take on much of this type of work,” said Col. Joseph Phillips, GRD Chief, Public Affairs Office. “We are working with many outstanding Iraqi contractors who want these contracts to help rebuild their country. In fact, we are executing more and more direct contracts with Iraqi companies across the infrastructure sectors we are working.”

The remaining projects -- 70 percent -- are slated to be awarded by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and JCC-I/A to Iraqi-owned businesses. IRRF funding was appropriated by Congress to help jump start the rebuilding of Iraq’s neglected infrastructure. Under Saddam’s three decades of rein, the nation spent little or nothing on repair, rehabilitation or new infrastructure construction.

“Thanks to the gift of the American people, IRRF reconstruction funds are being spent to repair and build capacity in: electricity; public works and water; oil; and facilities and transportation,” Phillips said. “From schools and police stations to water treatment plants and communications systems, GRD is working closely with our Iraqi partners to improve Iraq’s infrastructure.”

As of May 5, GRD has 3,699 total planned projects representing a construction cost of $6.19 billion. Nearly 3,500 projects have started ($5.21 billion), 764 are under construction at a construction cost of $2.56 billion, and a total of 2,732 have been completed at a construction cost of $2.65 billion.

Iraqi Forces continue to progressively stand up and lead from the front
MNF-Iraq.com
BAGHDAD, Iraq (May 12, 2006) – “An Iraq that's at peace with its neighbors and an ally in the war on terror, has a representative government that respects the rights of all Iraqis, has a security force that can maintain domestic order, and deny Iraq as a safe haven for terrorists.”

This comment has been a staple in nearly every press briefing from Multi-National Force-Iraq. In his last press conference as the spokesperson for MNF-I, Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch discussed operational issues, Iraqi manpower and successes.

According to Maj. Gen. Lynch, there are currently 254,000 trained Iraqi security forces in country and 325,000 expected by the end of the year.

“They are assuming lead for counterinsurgency operations all across Iraq. By this summer, 75 percent of the brigades will have the lead, and by this fall, 80 percent of the divisions,” Maj. Gen. Lynch said. “By God, that is progress.”

Lynch also pointed out that nearly 30 percent of our company-level and above missions are independent Iraqi Security Force missions…Iraqi-planned, Iraqi-conducted and most of all, Iraqi led.

Missions such as one in a wide area south of Mosul demonstrated the increasing capability of Iraqi security forces. Units from the 2nd Iraqi Army Division conducted Operation Cool Spring VIII May 9, capturing suspected terrorists and displaying an increased capability to transition to security lead in the area.

Forces from the 3rd Iraqi Army Brigade planned, conducted and led the operation, which involved about 550 Iraqi Army Soldiers and about 85 Coalition Forces.

In addition to capturing three individuals on the Iraqi Army’s most wanted list, the operation also built the confidence of the Iraqi Soldiers who planned and conducted the operation and increased the sense of security for Iraqi citizens.

Maj. Gen. Lynch also highlighted several key operations which were of major significance.

Ansar al Sunna member and chemical expert, Ali Wali, was killed May 6 during a counterterrorist raid in the Mansur district of Baghdad.

Ali Wali was an Iraqi Kurd who served as a key leader in various aspects of Ansar al Sunna’s operations. In addition to being a senior explosives expert, Ali Wali was heavily involved in various aspects of Ansar al Sunna training and efforts to reorganize the network.

Additionally, Abu Abd Al Rahman, the so called “Emir of the Tigris River Valley” for Al Qaeda in Iraq, was captured by Coalition Forces in a series of raids May 5 in the vicinity of Samarra.

Rahman was responsible for a network that facilitates foreign fighters and weapons through the Tigris River Valley. Four others were also detained and four foreign fighters were killed in the raids.

The continued success of operations like these demonstrates a weakening of the insurgency and terrorist efforts which was clearly spelled out after an April 16 raid in the Yusifiyah area where Coalition Forces discovered a large amount of documents and videos ranging from plans to critiques, including Al Qaeda in Iraq’s strategy in Baghdad and how the terrorist organization lacks leadership, military capability and Iraqi support.

“It’s not about us, it’s all about them,” Maj. Gen. Lynch added. “As Iraqi Forces stand up, Coalition Forces will stand down.”

Ah yes the UN a fine organisation where murdering dictatorships can end up on boards that discuss human rights, where money pours into a financial black hole- not got to Kofi yet!- and never reaches the needy people it was intended for, where the UN Sec. Gen. (yes now I am onto Kofi) investigates his own department and finds that he is doing a super job thank you very much.

The only organisation I can think of that actually makes the EU look honest.

Now lets see if I have got the situation right about Palestine, they laugh and cheer after 9/11, Bali, Beslan, 7/7 and all the other actions carried out by muslim "extremists" in the religon of peace but we have to support them as they are the ones being oppressed. Well according to them that is.

Then when they elect a bunch of murdering scum as their new leaders they then whine due an economic blockade - yes that annoying death to Israel thing, seems us kafir in the west dont agree with their liberal stance on killing jews - and so the sob stories come out again, along with the sad eyed children and reporters from El Beeb, yet they still wont give up on supporting terror against Israel.

Only question I have is why is my government giving this bunch of fucks aid in the first place? Oh yes dhimmitude thats the reason.

Found this classic on BNP & Me site - link on the sidebar - for anyone who doesnt get the humour in that do a Google search on Dads Army the old British comedy.

Anyway time for a quote from that classic British leader Winston Churchill:

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

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