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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on April 20, 2008, 12:39:20 PM
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WASHINGTON, April 18, 2008 – U.S. soldiers captured a man suspected of leading an Iranian-backed Special Groups cell in southern Baghdad’s Rashid District yesterday, military officials reported.
The detainee is linked to several area attacks, officials said. He was caught during military operations conducted in the Abu T’shir neighborhood.
“The operation has been going extremely well,†said Army Maj. Dave Olson, a 1st Brigade Combat Team spokesman. The soldiers are creating a safe and secure environment for the district's 1.2 million residents, he said.
“We will target and bring to justice those criminals who disregard the rule of law and who obviously have no regard for the welfare of innocent Iraqi citizens,†Olson declared.
In other news, a tipster led U.S. and Iraqi soldiers to a weapons cache in Shubayshen Village, south of Baghdad, April 16.
The soldiers spent several hours digging up the munitions, which consisted of about 600 tank rounds.
This find was part of Operation Marne Piledriver, an ongoing effort in which Iraqi forces are taking the lead in removing insurgents with the help of coalition forces.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49623
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Excellent news :bravo:
The LA Times tried to bury this (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-najaf20apr20,1,3800254.story) story...
Three days into the Basra campaign, Grand Ayatollah Najafi issued a fatwa, or religious opinion or edict, that declared the Iraqi government as the only force in the country with the right to bear arms.
His son, Sheik Ali Najafi, left little doubt that the clergy had backed the Iraqi army operations.
“We see this as a positive improvement... The people want the government to control the streets and the law to be enforced. No other groups,†he said, sitting in his study, furnished with cushions, a laptop and a clock bearing his father’s portrait.
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See what the media fails to realize in their zeal to make anyone opposing us look heroic...is that a-Sadr isn't very high up on the Cleric totem pole over there.
So when he makes these declarations against the Iraqi Government and the U.S. he's not helping his cause any.
In fact among the clerics over there he's only making his position worse.
So then clerics come out with fatwas like this as a verbal bitch slap to little Mookie.
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Great news.....................As I sit here in the Charlotte airport watching our brave heros walking by in anything from dress blues to ACU's........................As for the corrupt media and Mokie Al Shithead :bird:
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Mookie's last desperate gasp
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Operation: Marne Piledriver?
Must be 3ID.
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By my unscientific count it's about 200-300 dead bad guys to zero Americans. Many civilians had also perished and that's unfortunate, but that also means they are in very close proximity with the thugs. Still, I like our kill ratio.