Iraq Operation Lightning: The Results

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: Infohawk
Wasn't yllus going to sign up and head over there to help them out with these operations?

*crickets*

Did something go wrong with the plan?

 

[yllus]

And it's your business because...? Maybe you might want to stick to contributing your valuable insights to that Michael Jackson thread?

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: yllus
And it's your business because...?

Oh I see, so if you can spout off about backing up your words with actions, you share it with the board? But otherwise it's your private business? LOL. You take yourself too seriously, chickenhawk.

 

[yllus]

Uh...right, kid. Let me know where I've ever challenged someone to take their statements here and back it up in the real world and you might for once have an actual argument. Until then, keep working on that GED. 🙂

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: yllus
Uh...right, kid. Let me know where I've ever challenged someone to take their statements here and back it up in the real world and you might for once have an actual argument. Until then, keep working on that GED. 🙂

I never said you challenged someone to back up their statements here. I am merely pointing out that you puffed your chickenhawk feathers about possibly joining the army and all of a sudden you are putting your chickenhead under your wing when someone asks for a follow up. If you hadn't felt the need to blabber about it in the first place, I wouldn't have asked.

Anyway, so much for yllus doing anything about the war on terrorism or whatever the hell they are calling it now. 🙁

 

[yllus]

Oh, I see your worth to P&N now. When a forum member discusses possibilities for the future in a thread to get feedback from a number of veterans posting there, he's doing it to...impress of a bunch of people he really would never want to meet anyways. Yeah. I suppose this would make sense to a total buffoon like yourself.

Unfortunately, guess what - we're not all as sophomoric as you are! But hey, I think that Michael Jackson thread has fallen off the front page - better jump on that! 🙂

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: yllus
When a forum member discusses possibilities for the future in a thread to get feedback from a number of veterans posting there, he's doing it to...impress of a bunch of people he really would never want to meet anyways. Yeah. I suppose this would make sense to a total buffoon like yourself.

Unfortunately, guess what - we're not all as sophomoric as you are! But hey, I think that Michael Jackson thread has fallen off the front page - better jump on that! 🙂

You get career advice from P&N and people you don't want to meet, and I'm sophomoric? (A word I taught you by the way, but deny it if you must). Anyway, I'm not really interested in a pissing match, so you can have the last word. I'll just finish by saying that I am not surprised you didn't want to admit what happened with your chickenhawk military fantasy. Cheers.

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: Infohawk
You get career advice from P&N and people you don't want to meet, and I'm sophomoric?

How many American veterans do you think are in Canada, dumbass? I'm here, so I'll ask and I'll post.

(A word I taught you by the way, but deny it if you must).

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

*takes breath*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!

Anyway, I'm not really interested in a pissing match, so you can have the last word. I'll just finish by saying that I am not surprised you didn't want to admit what happened with your chickenhawk military fantasy. Cheers.

You're a true prize, Infohawk. :laugh: You're so right, I'd never heard the word until you came along and taught me it. Does this little white lie of mine make you feel better about yourself? You can't really do much in an actual discussion, but you can sure teach them words! :laugh:

I'm sure you aren't interesting in a pissing match, kid. Must be why you came into the thread to make a very typical one-line off-topic post about a forum member and then championed his great victory on the plains of spelling mistakes. You go on and feel big and bad about your superiority over the chickenhawks, son. Sure seems to be all you've got around here. 🙂

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: conjur
That article didn't say the other 95 had been charged. They could very well end up being released, too.

You can always hope. Keep your fingers crossed and say your prayers to Allah and just maybe....

Fvck off

Nice response from the guy who so often accuses me and others of having our nose up Bush's @ss.

I guess the same rhetorical medicine you so frequently dispense isn't as tasty when you have to down it yourself?

Far cry of a difference, asshat.

How typical.. Resort to personal insults when nothing's left to say due to pwnage Perfect liberal stereotype

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: conjur
That article didn't say the other 95 had been charged. They could very well end up being released, too.

You can always hope. Keep your fingers crossed and say your prayers to Allah and just maybe....

Fvck off

Nice response from the guy who so often accuses me and others of having our nose up Bush's @ss.

I guess the same rhetorical medicine you so frequently dispense isn't as tasty when you have to down it yourself?

Far cry of a difference, asshat.

How typical.. I'm going to jump on the fluffer bandwagon when I have nothing of substance to say. Perfect Bush-God fanboi stereotype

I agree.

 

[yllus]

Al-Qaida in Iraq suspect arrested

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police have arrested a key aide to the leader of the Mosul branch of the al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist group, the government said Sunday.

Mutlaq Mahmoud Mutlaq Abdullah, also known as Abu Raad, was arrested Saturday. He is considered a key facilitator and financier for a militant identified by the alias Abu Talha, the purported head of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror cell in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.

A statement released by Iraq's Cabinet said Abu Raad "coordinates terrorist activities" and "supervises the funds available to the terrorist cell led by Abu Talha."

"(Abu Raad) arranges meetings between Abu Talha and some terrorists and is familiar with his plans and crimes committed in Mosul, such as murder, rape and kidnappings," said the statement.

Maj. Gen. Khalil Ahmed al-Obeidi, commander of the Iraqi army in Mosul plus several other northern Iraqi areas, confirmed the arrest of Abu Raad, but provided no further details.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Originally posted by: Infohawk

Originally posted by: Infohawk
Wasn't yllus going to sign up and head over there to help them out with these operations?

*crickets*

Did something go wrong with the plan?

So when are any of the oh so concerned anti-war liberals in here going to go over and do their part to instill peace in Iraq that they so fervently argue for?

*crickets*

Oh...wait. That's a stupid rhetorical question, isn't it?

Of course it is. It's almost, ALMOST, as stupid as asking when the conservatives on this board are going to sign up to go fight. Of course, that stupid question is posed frequently from the anti-war crew on this forum, so take from that what you will.

Edi: Oh, and...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7897149/

U.S. forces step up hunt for insurgents
Latifiyah raids in 2nd day; 2 Iraqis slain; ?insurgent lair? discovered

Jacob Silberberg / AP
Through a military interpreter, an Iraqi man pleads with a U.S. soldier for the release of his son, who was arrested Saturday as part of Operation Lightning in the Latifiyah District of Southern Baghdad.
The Associated Press

Updated: 2:00 p.m. ET June 5, 2005BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces stepped up their efforts to stop insurgents Sunday, amid continuing violence against Iraqi security forces, the arrest of a financier allied with al-Qaida in Iraq, and that group's claim of responsibility for a deadly car-bomb attack on Saturday.

Separately, Australia?s top Islamic cleric said he has seen an Australian engineer held hostage and that he is ?still alive and in honest hands.?

Gunmen in a speeding car opened fire on Iraqi security forces Sunday in eastern Baghdad, killing a policewoman and injuring a policeman, Col. Ahmed al-Alawi said. Police are routinely targeted by insurgents who regard them as U.S. collaborators.

An Iraqi truck driver transporting concrete blast walls for the U.S. military also was killed in a drive-by shooting Sunday in western Baghdad?s Abu Ghraib district, police Lt. Akram al-Zubaee said.

South of Baghdad, Iraqi forces backed by U.S. troops staged a second day of raids in Latifiyah, a town in the blood-soaked Triangle of Death region, where insurgents have launched multiple bombings and deadly ambushes.

Al-Qaida in Iraq suspect arrested
Iraqi police have arrested a key aide to the leader of the Mosul branch of the al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist group, the government said Sunday.

Mutlaq Mahmoud Mutlaq Abdullah, also known as Abu Raad, was arrested Saturday. He is considered a key facilitator and financier for a militant identified by the alias Abu Talha, the purported head of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror cell in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.

A statement released by Iraq's Cabinet said Abu Raad ?coordinates terrorist activities? and ?supervises the funds available to the terrorist cell led by Abu Talha.?

?(Abu Raad) arranges meetings between Abu Talha and some terrorists and is familiar with his plans and crimes committed in Mosul, such as murder, rape and kidnappings,? said the statement.

Maj. Gen. Khalil Ahmed al-Obeidi, commander of the Iraqi army in Mosul plus several other northern Iraqi areas, confirmed the arrest of Abu Raad, but provided no further details.

The government statement said Abu Raad supervised the collection of money obtained through donations and criminal activities, such as blackmail, abduction and theft.

Claim of responsibility
An Internet statement purportedly from al-Qaida in Iraq ? the terrorist group of Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ?also claimed responsibility for Saturday?s suicide car bomb attack on an Iraqi police checkpoint on the Mosul-Tal Afar road in northern Iraq that killed two officers and wounded four.

Four others were hurt in a roadside bombing as they went to help their fallen colleagues, Mosul police Lt. Zaid Ahmed Shakir said.

The claim of responsibility could not be verified.

Hunt for insurgents yields ?lair?
Hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. troops searched fields and farms Saturday for insurgents and their hideouts in an area south of Baghdad known for attacks, and the Marines said they discovered 50 weapons and ammunition caches and a huge underground bunker west of the capital fitted out with air conditioning, a kitchen and showers.

The joint U.S.-Iraqi force operating in Latifiyah to the south was backed by American air power and said it had rounded up at least 108 Iraqis, mainly Sunnis, suspected of involvement in the brutal insurgent campaign to topple the Shiite-led government.

To the west of the capital, the 2nd Marine division said its forces had discovered 50 weapons and ammunitions caches over the past four days in restive Anbar province. The military said the find included a recently used ?insurgent lair? in a massive underground bunker complex that included air-conditioned living quarters and high tech military equipment, including night vision goggles.

That bunker was found cut from a rock quarry in Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad. The Marines said the facility was 170 yards wide and 275 yards long.

In its rooms were ?four fully furnished living spaces, a kitchen with fresh food, two shower facilities and a working air conditioner. Other rooms within the complex were filled with weapons and ammunition,? the announcement said.

The weapons included ?numerous types of machine guns, ordnance, including mortars, rockets and artillery rounds, black uniforms, ski masks, compasses, log books, night vision goggles, and fully charged cell phones.?

For Iraqi forces, 'baptism by fire'
In Latifiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, Iraqi and American forces launched a raid as part of Operation Lightning, a week-old assault aimed at rooting out insurgents conducting raids on the capital and sapping militant strength nationwide. While Iraqi forces were in the forefront of Saturday?s sweep though the semi-rural region, it was clear the U.S. military was still the driving force.

The Iraqi army?s reliance on U.S. troops was evident in other ways. Army Maj. Ronny Echelberger had to show an Iraqi brigade commander his location on a map shortly before Iraqi troops launched the operation, and a few minutes later Iraqi soldiers fired hundreds of rounds when they mistakenly thought they saw an insurgent.

?These guys are doing baptism by fire. It takes time,? said Army Capt. Jason Blindauer of the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division.

Operation Lightning is being watched closely as a bellwether of when Iraqis can take control of their own security, a key to the U.S. exit strategy more than two years after Saddam Hussein?s ouster.

Numerous captures
Interior Minister Bayan Jabr has said at least 700 suspected insurgents have been rounded up in the sweep, which has also killed at least 28 militants. U.S. Lt. Col. Michael Infanti said at least 221 people had been arrested since last Wednesday by forces carrying out a sweep of Baghdad?s southern districts. It was unclear if that number was in addition to the 700 given by Jabr.

An Iraqi believed to be a terrorist leader in the north was captured by U.S. and Iraqi forces in Mosul, 225 miles north of Baghdad. He was identified as Mullah Mahdi and was caught along with his brother, three other Iraqis and a non-Iraqi Arab, Iraqi army Maj. Gen. Khalil Ahmed al-Obeidi said.

Mahdi was affiliated with the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, one of Iraq?s most feared terrorist groups, and had links to the Syrian intelligence service, al-Obeidi said without elaborating. Iraqi and U.S. officials have accused Syria of facilitating the insurgency by allowing foreign fighters to cross its borders, but Damascus denies the allegation.

Bid to free Australian continues
On Sunday, a representative of Australia?s top Islamic cleric said the cleric had met with Douglas Wood, an Australian being held hostage by Iraqi militants.

?I swear that Mr. Douglas Wood is still alive and (is in) honest hands,? Sheik Taj El Din al-Hilaly told Associated Press Television News at his Baghdad hotel. ?They (the kidnappers) want others to listen to them. They are not against the Australian people.?

Al-Hilaly is in Baghdad seeking the release of Wood, 63, a California-based Australian engineer who was abducted in late April. The group that kidnapped him released a video disk on May 1 showing him pleading for Australia to withdraw its 1,400 troops from Iraq. The Australian government has refused.

Ikebal Patel, from Australia?s Federation of Islamic Councils, told television?s Seven Network he had spoken to Al-Hilaly in Iraq on Thursday.

?He said to me: ?I?ve seen him eye to eye.? Those were the words he used, ?eye to eye,? it was Douglas,? Patel said.

He said al-Hilaly reported that Wood had received the heart medication he needed and was holding up well.

 

[yllus]

U.S. forces find huge rebel bunker system in Iraq

BAGHDAD: U.S. forces on Sunday said they have discovered an ``insurgent lair'' in Iraq's restive Al-Anbar province, including a bunker system the size of four football pitches and dozens of weapons caches.

The U.S. military announced the discovery of the bunkers dug into an abandoned quarry near Karmah, west of the capital, along with 50 weapons caches unearthed in the last 72 hours.

The whole complex was 170 metres wide and 275 metres long or bigger than four football pitches, it said, and fresh food inside showed the hideout had been recently inhabited.

Apparently this may be one that might date back to Saddam Hussein's nationwide construction of underground bases, tunnels and bunkers. Eep.

 

[yllus]

'Hundreds held' in Iraq operation

Operation Lightning has not dealt a "knockout blow" to the insurgency, but signals its "slow death", government spokesman Leith Kubba said.

He said the operation had expanded both to the "triangle of death" south of the capital and to cities in northern Iraq.

But a prominent Sunni Muslim group accused the government of targeting Sunnis and opponents of the occupation.

The Iraqi government says 608 mobile and 194 permanent checkpoints have been established around Baghdad since Operation Lightning began on 22 May, according to the Associated Press news agency.

Before the operation, authorities controlled only eight of the 23 entrances to Baghdad, but now they control them all, AP says.

"Despite a tangible improvement in the situation in Baghdad, we must not have a false sense of security," Mr Kubba is quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

"All indications show that there is a retreat by these networks, but they are still doing one or two operations to prove that they are alive.

"The success in Baghdad is now being repeated in Mosul with the help of local residents and tribes."

The news of attacks has been a bit muted in the Baghdad area, though you could argue that Fallujah is not that far away. Still, I'll reserve judgement and see what happens over the next month or so.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

More sucesses n Operation Lightning:

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/2005/06/todays-lightning-brief.html

Today's Lightning brief.
Operation lightning is showing good results in Baghdad and its suburbs one week after it was launched and I guess that this good effect comes from the high coordination among the different departments of Iraqi security forces as well as the multinational forces.
The last 24 hours or so resulted in arresting some 300 terrorists and suspects in addition to confiscating amounts of weapons and munitions according to local papers and TV.
So, here's a summary of the operations:

In Adwaniya district in Rasheed suburb security forces clashed with a group of armed men and by the end of the clashes 30 militants were arrested and all their weapons were captured.
While in Ja'ara and Wardiya near Mada'in, Iraqi forces raided some suspected terrorists hides and arrested 27 of them and found weapons and anti-Iraqi publications.

In Mahmoudia near the so called triangle of death, 32 terrorists were captured and remote control detonation devices were found in the raid.

Also 5 terrorists were arrested in Huriya west of Baghdad, 10 in Jurf Al-Sakhr and Sewairah to the south of the capital.
Another 14 terrorists were captured in Nahrawan and 9Neesan districts.

In Al-Tarmiya to the north of Baghdad, a mechanized regiment of Iraqi forces carried out several raids and arrested 2 of the dangerous wanted terrorists, Hussein Abdullah and 'Owayed Al-Ubaidi; mortar rounds, grenades and detonation devices were seized in the operation.

In the notorious area of Latifiyah, the 1st regiment of the 4th brigade carried out a number of raids near the international highway and arrested 64 terrorists while in Mahdiya district in Al-Doura region, the 1st regiment of the 2nd brigade Special Forces arrested 36 suspects and confiscated their weapons.

In Al-Shishbar district in Mahmoudia, the 4th brigade Iraqi forces raided the neighborhoods between Al-Salam quarter in the north and Alexandria in the south and arrested 73 suspects and confiscated their weapons along with 7 vehicles were used in performing terror attacks.

In another important development, it seems that the government has identified the leader of the murderous group "The Army of Ansar Al-Sunna" as the newspapers and Iraqia TV today mentioned that now "there's a 50,000 $ reward put by the government for anyone who submits information that lead to the arrest or death of Abu Abdullah Al-Shaafi'i".
This terrorist organization is one of the most dangerous groups currently working in Iraq.

Generally speaking, Baghdad looks quieter these days and I hope that operation lightning would extend to storm all terror nests after Baghdad is well cleaned as was planned previously.

I recall that the most pessimistic researches estimated the number of militants by 200,000 and that there are other 5 million supporters and sympathizers and I admit that the numbers seem huge just like Saddam's empty millions-sized armies but anyhow when we look at the other side we find 22 million people standing against terrorism and working to build a democracy.

Do you know who's going to be the victor?
It's not a very difficult question, eh?

 

[yllus]

Good, good! This stuff seems a little slow to filter into the global media. We did have a drive-by shooting this morning in Baghdad that took the life of a government employee, but otherwise within Baghdad it currently seems strangely quiet.

Quantitatively, what I like the most is that government troops now control all 23 of the entrances into the city. Not quite sure why that wasn't done to begin with, but there's probably an obvious (tactical?) reason for it.

 

[Votingisanillusion]

Marketing by the Pentagon. This operation is falling apart lightningly fast.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=99999&l=i&size=1&hd=0

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 13 June 2005

Baghdad.

Resistance wipes out commander of ?Operation Lightning? in Abu Ghurayb.

In a bulletin posted at 10:05am Mecca time Monday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before Iraqi Resistance fighters in Abu Ghurayb had killed puppet Brigadier General Khamis al-?Amiri, the local commander of the so-called ?Operation Lightning? offensive against the Resistance and other opponents of the occupation.

A source in the puppet police told Mafkarat al-Islam that an Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter wearing an explosive belt got into a gathering of Iraqi puppet troops whom al-?Amiri was visiting on an inspection tour. The Resistance fighter blew himself up close to the general, killing him along with a number of those close by ? all of them Iraqi puppet troops and members of the puppet police ?wolf brigade.?

The Iraqi puppet regime had made no announcement of the assassination as of the time of reporting, but sources in the puppet police and puppet army confirmed that General al-?Amiri had been killed in the attack. At the time of writing, US troops and Iraqi puppet forces were massed around the area in Abu Ghurayb where the attack took place.


Resistance bombards Saddam International Airport.

Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded Saddam International Airport, where the American occupation forces have set up one of their biggest bases in Iraq, at 10am local time Monday morning.

Sources in the puppet security forces deployed in the Airport, who asked not to be identified, told Mafkarat al-Islam that six Katyusha rockets blasted into the western parts of the airport, damaging runways for US fighter aircraft. They also damaged a US F-16 airplane and a number of vehicles. Thick clouds of smoke were seen rising over the area as several powerful secondary explosions rocked the area. Large numbers of US helicopters flew in over the area after the attack.

The First Army of Muhammad Resistance organization announced its responsibility for the attack in a communiqué, a copy of which was obtained by the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam. The statement said that the rockets struck their intended targets.

Iraqi Resistance bomb blasts US column on Airport Road Monday afternoon.

In a dispatch posted at 4:15pm Mecca time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before an Iraqi Resistance bomb had exploded on the road to Saddam International Airport, destroying a Humvee and killing three US troops and injuring a fourth.

Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam in Baghdad that a bomb planted under a billboard by the side of Airport Road blew up as a US military column was passing, killing and wounding four US troops. A source in the Iraqi puppet police reported that the blast killed three American troops and seriously wounded a fourth.

After the attack, US forces closed the road to the airport, one of the most heavily used in the area of the occupied Iraqi capital, and massed around the area.

US Consul in Baghdad targeted in Iraqi Resistance martyrdom car bombing Monday afternoon.

An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter blasted an explosives-packed car into a US military convoy in western Baghdad on Monday. QudsPress reported that the American Consul in Baghdad was in the convoy when the attack took place in Baghdad?s al-Yarmuk district.

Iraqi puppet military sources told QudsPress that the convoy in which US Consul Robert Ford was riding was attacked as it pulled away from the headquarters of the Islamic Party in al-Yarmuk.

The source told QudsPress that one American Humvee and one four-wheel drive ?civilian? car were completely destroyed by the explosion, which they claimed also killed three Iraqi civilians and wounded three more in addition to inflicting material damage on nearby shops.

QudsPress reported that the precise fate of the US consul was not known, nor was there any information on the extent of casualties suffered by the Americans in the attack.

Earlier, sources in the Iraqi puppet police told Reuters on Monday afternoon that Iraqi ?a high-level? American diplomat had survived the attack, though it was not known whether he specifically was the target.

A spokesman for the Iraqi ?Islamic Party? said that an American diplomat had concluded a meeting in their party headquarters in western Baghdad and just left when the Resistance car bomb blasted his convoy.

The so-called ?Islamic Party? was formed after the US occupation of Iraq by remnants of the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood organization. It has cooperated with the American occupation and its party chief had a seat on the first US puppet ?governing council? under proconsul L. Paul Bremer.

Reuters journalists said US soldiers cordoned off the area after the blast, arriving in unusually large numbers for what was otherwise a fairly routine incident in Baghdad. The British news agency initially reported US officials as claiming they knew about a car bomb attack on a ?patrol? but had no knowledge regarding the presence of any American diplomat in the convoy. Reuters quoted one American soldier as saying that he could not comment on the story about the diplomat, but could say that the convoy was not of the usual sort.


Hepatitis spreads dangerously in Iraq as US occupation presides over the ruination of the country?s infrastructure.

The puppet so-called ?Iraqi ministry of health? reported on Monday that an additional 1,181 cases of viral heptatits have been reported as a result of polluted water. A source in the puppet ?ministry? told QudsPress that the additional 1,181 cases were recorded just in the cities of Baghdad and al-?Amarah.

Nearly 180 cases were registered in Baghdad, most of them in the district of ar-Rusafah. The rest were in the al-Karakh district of the occupied Iraqi capital.

The majority of the new incidences of the disease, however were registered in the city of al-?Amarah.

Dr. Wathiq Muhammad Yunus said that splitting drinking water pipes was one main reason for the pollution in which sewer water has mixed with the drinking water supply. Another source of the disease, however, are the itinerant hawkers who sell snacks in prepared using polluted water.

Dr. Yunus noted that the bad economic situation in which so many Iraqis find themselves compelled them to consume unhealthy products, particularly in the hot summer months. Another factor is rampant commercial cheating. Yunus said that the puppet ?health ministry? had taken more than 60 samples of water from different parts of Iraq and a study of the samples revealed that 26 of them were unfit. The so-called as-Sadr section of Baghdad as well as an-Nahrawan and al-Fallujah all had unfit drinking water. Samples from those regions contained filth, contaminants, fecal colon bacteria, elevated bacterial levels in general as well as worms in pond sediment.

Dr. ?AtaAllah as-Sulaymani, the Director of the Viral Hepatitis Department at the Center for Control of Infectious Disesases in Maysan Province, said that the information on the spread of the disease in al-?Amarah, where there are more than 1,000 reported cases, is not precise. He said that many local people refuse to come to health centers to be tested for fear that they will be given negative results.

(See also ?Polluted water supply due to US occupation leaves residents of Baghdad thirsty and subject to serious illness,? in the Iraqi Resistance Report for Saturday, 11 June 2005.)

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Originally posted by: Votingisanillusion
Marketing by the Pentagon. This operation is falling apart lightningly fast.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=99999&l=i&size=1&hd=0

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 13 June 2005

<snipped>

Posting articles from Uruknet? It's a website that supports the Iraqi resistance? If I posted some shiney article from the .MIL in here everyone would puke, and probably rightfully so. So how is posting this garbage from the opposite end of the spectrum any different?

 

[Votingisanillusion]

US corporate media are merely parrots for the Pentagon. The Pentagon has killed more millions of people around the World in the past 50 years than any other group of armed killers on Earth.
The Iraqi Resistance kills those bastards, the worst bastards since the Nazis.
Posting from uruknet is very different than posting fascist propaganda from the Pentagon's parrots.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Originally posted by: Votingisanillusion
US corporate media are merely parrots for the Pentagon. The Pentagon has killed more millions of people around the World in the past 50 years than any other group of armed killers on Earth.
The Iraqi Resistance kills those bastards, the worst bastards since the Nazis.
Posting from uruknet is very different than posting fascist propaganda from the Pentagon's parrots.

:roll:

You are seriously fvcked up in the head.

 

[umbrella39]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: conjur
More reality, you mean.

Sounds more like conjecture based on hearsay to me with your doom and gloom opinion tacked on for good measure.

Kind of like the DOD reports. Just replace doom and gloom with the rose colored glasses.

 

[yllus]

This just in: The Pentagon has killed more people than Mao's China and Stalin's Russia combined! Experts now vainly searching for the birth and deathplace of each of these poor victims to backup wild claims made by some guy on an Internet forum.

 

[umbrella39]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: conjur
That article didn't say the other 95 had been charged. They could very well end up being released, too.

You can always hope. Keep your fingers crossed and say your prayers to Allah and just maybe....

Fvck off

Agree TLC, fvck off. You are a false patriot and an asshole when you say crap like that. Grow up little eSoldier. What possible pleasure do you derive from calling anti Iraq war Americans, Allah worshipers?

 

[yllus]

What's wrong with being a worshipper of Allah?

Operation Lightning appears

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The Iraqi government said Monday that it detained nearly 900 suspected militants and set up more than 800 checkpoints in a two-week sweep that may have blunted attacks in the capital.

More than 840 people have died in violence since the government was announced April 28, but the daily death toll has fallen slightly in the past three days.

raq's first freely elected government in more than 50 years replaced Saddam Hussein's regime, which had long suppressed Shiite and Kurdish communities in favor of minority Sunni Arabs.

Iraqi officials believe offensives like Operation Lightning, along with the deposed dictator's upcoming war-crimes trial, could help deflate the insurgency being waged by Saddam loyalists and Islamic extremists.

The Sunni fall from power has been considered a major cause of the violence

The latest figures released from Operation Lightning, which began May 22 in Baghdad, included at least 887 arrests and the establishment around Baghdad of 608 mobile and 194 permanent checkpoints. Also, 38 weapon stores were raided.

The operation is the biggest Iraqi-led offensive since Saddam's ouster two years ago. Before it began, authorities controlled only eight of Baghdad's 23 entrances. Now all are under government control.

Not bad for a first venture, Iraqis, not bad.

 

[umbrella39]

Originally posted by: yllus
What's wrong with being a worshipper of Allah?

Don't be daft, it is not like you missed the point. Why you pretend not to understand is another story.