Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Iraq: On Ground Updates - Wednesday, April 16, 2008

* Iraq: On Ground Updates *
Wednesday
, April 16, 2008
DoD’s American Forces Press Service has this news article out today and it starts off like this...

Use silenced guns to kill coalition forces at Iraqi security checkpoints, smuggle weapons in gradual shipments to reduce the risk of detection, and poison Iraq’s water supply with nitric acid to spread disease and death.

Such tactics were fleshed out in a terrorist letter intended for Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the foreign-born leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. But the document never reached Masri. Instead, coalition forces lifted it from the body of a terrorist they killed last month during an operation 30 miles northwest of Baghdad.

The slain terrorist and author of the 11-page missive was Abu Safyan, from Diyala, Iraq, according to military officials who made available all but two pages deemed “not releasable” on the Multinational Force Iraq Web site...
Read the article in full at link below...

Intercepted al-Qaida Letter Reveals Tactics, Strategy
* Read Abu Safyan’s Letter HERE
* Press Transcript of Maj. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, April 16th Briefing
Images from Multinational Force Iraq Presentation
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>>> Blackanthem.com has this short report today and it starts off like this... With a tip from a local citizen, Coalition and Iraqi Army forces discovered a large cache of rockets in West Rashid, near Forward Operating Base Falcon, April 14...
Read the rest at link below...
Rocket cache found by Coalition, Iraqi Security Forces

>>> CNN.com has their take on the news out of Iraq today... Fighting flared overnight in two key Shiite regions of Iraq, with four people killed early Wednesday in a U.S. airstrike in Basra and five others dying in battles in Baghdad's volatile northeastern region... Also, in Mosul, the U.S. military said Wednesday it killed a senior leader of al Qaeda in Iraq and accidentally shot and killed a bystander during a clash with militants...
Read the report at link below...
Airstrike, battles kill at least 11 in Iraq

* I’m sorry... but I couldn’t leave out the NY Times website today and their left leaning... everything has gone to hell in a handbasket kind of reporting. They had this report and it starts off like this... A company of Iraqi soldiers abandoned their positions on Tuesday night in Sadr City, defying American soldiers who implored them to hold the line against Shiite militias... The retreat left a crucial stretch of road on the front lines undefended for hours and led to a tense series of exchanges between American soldiers and about 50 Iraqi troops who were fleeing...
Need more punishment??? Read the rest at link below...
Iraqi Unit Flees Post, Despite American’s Plea

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