Casey Details Threats to Iraq, Progress to Combat ThemBy Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2006 – The primary threats to Iraq's security are terrorists and death squads, the coalition commander in the country said today, and both must be addressed if Iraq is going to progress. Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr. said the Iraqi people “aren't going to have the security that they want until the Iraqi security forces are the primary and dominant providers of security in the country. That won't happen until all militias and insurgents are disbanded.” |
MND-B Soldiers expel terrorists from Dora school
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized a cache containing weapons and munitions Sunday evening in Dora, a muhalla in southern Baghdad, during Operation Together Forward, after receiving a tip from a concerned Iraqi citizen.
The tip led Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, to a school where terrorists were hiding three rocket-propelled grenade rounds, three RPG launchers, five 60mm mortar rounds, a 60mm mortar tube, a 125mm rocket, two 107mm rocket, a PKC machinegun, multiple small-arms weapons with ammunition and various bomb-making materials.
Four male suspects were detained at the cache site.
Kidnapped Ramadi Police Employee Rescued by Iraqi Soldiers
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CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – An employee of the Ramadi police was discovered in the trunk of a Black Daewoo Prince in Fallujah by Iraqi soldiers from the 1st Iraqi Army Division during a cordon-and-search operation Sunday, Aug. 27.
“The rescue of the Iraqi citizen during Sunday’s intelligence-driven counterinsurgency operation in Fallujah is a result of the dedication and professionalism of the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st Division of the Iraqi Army,” said Marine Lt. Col. James Teeples, the senior military transition team advisor to 3-2-1. “From conception through execution, this was solely an Iraqi Army effort.”
As the soldiers conducted a vehicle check point, they spotted two insurgents abandon the Daewoo Prince and flee on foot. The soldiers subsequently approached the vehicle, and upon hearing screams and bangs emitting from the rear, opened the trunk. Inside they discovered the kidnapped Ramadi police employee, who had been bound by the insurgents.
The Iraqi man was extricated from the trunk, escorted to a Coalition forces post and then released.
Iraqi security forces capture bomb makerBAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces captured an improvised explosive device maker and IED cell leader Aug. 27 near Mussayib. The suspect is believed to have participated in multiple IED attacks on Coalition and Iraqi security forces, including one which took the lives of four U.S. servicemembers on May 5. This individual is also believed to be a supplier of IEDs to illegal armed groups inciting sectarian violence and government instability through kidnapping, murder and armed attacks.
The raid, conducted by Iraqi police with Coalition observers, occurred without incident and there were no civilian, Iraqi forces, or Coalition Force casualties
One additional individual was detained in this operation.
Local Iraqi police and Soldiers from the 8th Iraqi Army Division went out on patrol to check reports of people gathering in the Al Eufrat district at approximately midnight Sunday. At about the same time, several explosions and shooting could be heard in various parts of the city.
At approximately 2:00 a.m. today, Soldiers from 8th Iraqi Army Division reported they were being attacked on Salem Street in the Al Jumhuri district and on various streets in the Al Nahda district. The battles lasted throughout the morning.
Coalition forces provided support to the Iraqi Security Forces by setting up blocking positions at several points on the outskirts of Ad Diwaniyah to prevent additional terrorists from entering the city.
A Polish MI-24 helicopter providing support to the ISF was hit with seven rounds of small arms fire at approximately 1:00 p.m. but was able to safely land at a nearby Coalition base.Casualties are still being assessed. Enemy casualties are unknown at this time.
Additional information will be released as soon as it is available.
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Agree with some of the points, but Saddam and his government would have needed to be taken out at some point and lets face it there was no one else in the area to do it.
I dont agree with the lefts arguement that it was just for cheap oil - hell just look at the price at the pumps these days, that disproves that arguement right off.
As for the enemy - they are no longer a regular army - Saddams troops folded quickly but a mix of arab nationalists, agents from outside nations who help supply both weapons and people(Syria, Iran etc) and jihadists from around the world looking to take on the Great Satan(US) and the Little Satan(UK)in a so called holy war.
Part of the reason I post the good news is that it is just not covered in the media, hell even the right wing papers in the UK dont report any of this. (Cant comment on US papers) Yet each troop death brings the howling cowards in the media and government out of the woodwork.
They play to the worst aspect of pleb politics, run down the good work done by both the western troops and the Iraqi people themselves.
Oh one final point on WW2, the troops still had problems with die hard nazi's groups trying to cause trouble for at least 6 years after Germany threw the towel in. So the west is going to have to stay the course on this one for years at least.
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