13 Terrorists Killed In Iraq Raid
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft and army snipers killed 13 gunmen north of Baghdad on Friday in fierce fighting that erupted as troops closed in to capture an al Qaeda cell leader, the U.S. military said.
After being shot at from several buildings, troops had called in air strikes that forced out four gunmen, including a woman wearing a ski mask, who were then killed by aircraft and sniper fire, the U.S. military said. Nine more gunmen were killed during the fighting.
“Despite coalition forces’ appeals for the terrorists to send out women and children to be taken to safety, a boy was killed in a building with an armed terrorist who had engaged the ground forces,” a military statement said.
A day earlier U.S. forces in Tarmiya attacked a Sunni mosque in the town after machinegun and rocket-propelled grenade fire on their combat outpost killed one soldier.
The U.S. military this week announced the launch of a major new offensive targeting al Qaeda and Shi’ite militias, who they fear will step up attacks ahead of a key report on the Iraq war due to be presented to the U.S. Congress in September.
It launched an operation east of the town of Tarmiya on Friday targeting an al Qaeda leader “who provides guidance to senior terrorist leaders”.
U.S. President George W. Bush has sent an extra 30,000 troops to Iraq to help clamp down sectarian violence between Shi’ite Muslims and Sunni Arabs and buy Iraq’s divided leaders time to reach a political accommodation.
Moderate Kurdish and Shi’ite blocs formed a new alliance on Thursday to support Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government in an attempt to break a political deadlock that has paralysed decision-making and talled agreement on crucial legislation. But the alliance, which includes the two main Kurdish parties in the government, the powerful Shi’ite Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and Maliki’s Shi’ite Dawa party, does not include the biggest Sunni Arab party, the Iraqi Islamic Party.
The party is part of the Accordance Front, the Sunni Arab political bloc that withdrew from the government earlier this month in protest at Maliki’s failure to address any of their demands for a greater say in government.
In a statement on Friday, the Iraqi Islamic Party said the solution to Iraq’s political crisis was not through making new alliances “but by achieving national consensus on the issues still dividing Iraqis”.
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sorry to hear the child was killed. Its a shame that they gave them plenty of warning and they didnt care enough to get that kid out. But good news about dead terrorists
August 17th, 2007 at 10:40 amEveryone needs to check out the rappen marine on fox news..here is the link although I am not sure that it will work.
August 17th, 2007 at 10:44 amhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293615,00.html#
moving,,,very moving.
I wonder who they captured?????
August 17th, 2007 at 10:55 am“Moderate Kurdish and Shi’ite blocs formed a new alliance on Thursday to support Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government in an attempt to break a political deadlock that has paralysed decision-making and talled agreement on crucial legislation. But the alliance, which includes the two main Kurdish parties in the government, the powerful Shi’ite Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and Maliki’s Shi’ite Dawa party, does not include the biggest Sunni Arab party, the Iraqi Islamic Party.”
And how is this cluster fuck any different than what has been going on in Washington? I think it is ironic that the Dummycrats keep pointing out the lack of benchmarks hit, when our congress can’t hit any here at home and our government has been in place for over 200 years!!!!
August 17th, 2007 at 11:00 amWell, whattaya know? Reuters does a report that doesn’t spin out of control into a leftist propaganda piece. Will wonders never cease?
Bad about the “boy” who was killed but maybe if our ROE had been less PC the slimeballs would have given up hiding behind women and children, knowing it wouldn’t make a difference to us. I’m just sayin’…
August 17th, 2007 at 11:01 amFirst of all congrats on sending some more goat-fuckers to where they belong….to hell…..
As far as the Iraqi govt is concerned, if you want to get some real security and stability, put the Sunnis back in power. The Shias have shown themselves to be the useless 7th century thinkers that they really are.
The Kurds? I don’t know. But it seems to me that a Kurdish-Sunni government would be more stable than the empty briefcase government that is Maliki and his shit-ite hordes.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:06 amOff topic: Our great Marine SSG has hit the big time again. This time on Fox news (I told you yesterday that this would happen.)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293615,00.html
August 17th, 2007 at 11:09 amjust fucking great, we have to plan military operations in Iraq around democrat (a.k.a. jackass, their own self-label mascot) party politics in D.C., oh I forgot, they support the troops
August 17th, 2007 at 11:35 amLet’s see … 13 X 72 “Flat Fatimas” = ……
August 17th, 2007 at 12:12 pmDamn, the troops keep this up and the Muslims will run out of virgins if they haven’t already.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:23 pmThis is a Reuters story, but has it hit the MSM sites? No. This is a bit off topic, but I can’t take it anymore today and I am going to rant: What are the stories of the day: “Padilla verdict troubling” in LA Times. “Ashcroft frail says memo”–about 2004 hospital visit. What relevance does this have today, except to keep alive a witch hunt while Congress is on vacation? “Bill Moyers says Rove an agnostic fear monger. Why is this “news” and how is Moyer’s opinion newsworthy? Then,the 24/7 coverage of the “subprime meltdown.” Everyone knows the market is driven by psychology. So, keep reporting over and over about this, even though for the last several years, the markets/economy has been roaring, but nary a peep on that. Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 were much bigger events than the subprime mortgage issue, and they barely registered a bump. But, the MSM knows to keep whipping up the subprime story, because these lib MSM types are cheering for a market collapse, just like they are cheering for an Iraq defeat, because they feel when these things happen, they assist their Dem political fortunes. They don’t care about the country, it’s all about getting power for the libs. Then, tne NYTimes, a story on New Orleans still vulnerable to floods, of course, blaming the Corps of Engineers. How about blaming the local officials, who have primary responsibility for these things??? How about blaming that #$*@ #$%@ governor Blanco, who had a political feud with the mayor of New Orleans, and so withheld assistance during the crisis. This is even documented in Spike Leftist Lee’s documentary on it!
August 17th, 2007 at 12:54 pmcorrection: “barely registered a bump in the economy.”
August 17th, 2007 at 12:56 pmF yeah! Kill em All!!!!!!!!!
Keep on the offense.
August 17th, 2007 at 1:38 pmI bet we will see this on the evening news. NOT!
One by one those “Wannabe”Fighters get dropped…just like the Breaking News now that a Senior Iranaian Quds Force dude got cpatured and his three aides got a “Can of Whoopa**”…LOL!
August 17th, 2007 at 1:54 pmSpeaking of useless goatfuckers, check out the irhabi asshole.
Saudi cleric: Allah wants Islam to rule the world
Apparently, in his view, to make the world safe for white underwear.
“Saudi Cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid: Western ‘Beasts’ Use Colored Underwear to Conceal Their Filth,” from MEMRITV:
http://www.jihadwatch.com
Some lib asked recently: “Well, where do we draw the line (in the GWOT)?”
August 17th, 2007 at 3:52 pmMy answer: When all fuckers like this creep are dead.
ur right on wendy,,, i am glad to see the kia of the dummycrats in iraq,,, i see ol’ joe bidens son is headed for iraq, i hope he is a long way fm my son.. i don’t want my son to have a bad leader,,, ohhhhh that’s right he is in the dogface unit and my son is with the MARINES…how ironic webb and biden both defeatests and yet they couldn’t convince their sons to jump ship,,,
August 17th, 2007 at 4:29 pmhaha john good post but lil late , then dan just reposts what he put anyways keep those terrorist bodies commin
August 17th, 2007 at 4:42 pmwhat is up
August 18th, 2007 at 12:11 pmWhat is up?
August 18th, 2007 at 12:14 pm