The offensive in Diyala continues.
Officials said 35 wanted insurgents had been detained by the second day of the operation involving some 50,000 troops. Hot weather and the inhospitable terrain are making progress extremely difficult, military officials say.
House-to-house searches were currently focused on Baquba itself, but would be extended to rugged areas near the Iranian border, regional cou
Nearly 50,000 Iraqi police and soldiers were involved in a U.S.-backed operation against al-Qaida in Iraq in one of its last major strongholds near the capital, a senior provincial official said Wednesday. The house-to-house search operations now focused on the Diyala provincial capital of Baquoba will be extended to rugged areas near the Iranian border, said Ibrahim Bajilan, the head of the regio
Insurgents in Diyala Province, Iraq, are turning against al-Qaeda reminiscient of al-Anbar Province. The U.S. military is maximizing this turn of events to work with the anti-al-Qaeda movement to stabilize the region.
Ieri, nella provincia di Diyala, a nord est di Baghdad, un soldato americano è stato ucciso in combattimento. L’annuncio è arrivato dall’esercito americano che solo ieri avevano reso noto che tre soldati e un marinaio erano stati uccisi in combattimento nella stessa provincia (more…)
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Militants linked to al-Qaeda are reported to have staged a military parade in the village of Miqdadiya, in Diyala province north of Baghdad, to demonstrate their viability in the face of a massive US offensive in the area. Despite the presence of 10,000 US and Iraqi troops in the Sunni-dominated province, more than 250 militants took to the streets in a show of force, the news agency, Voices of Iraq, said. The terrorists marched through the al-Muallimin quarter of Miqdadiya, around 50 kilometres from Baaquba, the capital of the province where militants linked to al-Qaeda have been under attack.They reportedly marched in the streets thrusting their weapons in the air and carrying flags with 'Iraqi Islamic State' inscribed on them. More...
Possessing the ability to ignore the things that most people find motivating like their health, comfort, whether they’re alive, etc, fanatics make for difficult opponents. Consider Iraq: Insurgents have the opportunity to live in a democracy awash in oil and the goodwill of the most powerful country on Earth yet prefer to live like hunted animals, running from hideout to hideout, and living on scraps in between hunting excursions in which their prey is often the people they think they’re assisting.
Our own Western history has had long bouts of fanaticism, from the similar religious kind in the Crusades and the hundred years’ war (I realize that many events had multiple causes and that the leaders of those movements had many, often conflicting rationales, but the driving force, for the average participant, was as I indicate. The same holds true today. Many of the suicide bombers think they’re fighting for God, but their leaders’ impetus may be nothing more
BAGHDAD — About 10,000 U.S. soldiers launched an offensive against Al Qaeda in Iraq northeast of Baghdad early Tuesday, killing at least 22 insurgents, the U.S. military said.
Go get 'em, boys.
I hope we destroy an enemy who have to be the most evil people on Earth, an appellation Joel S. Hirschhorn reserves for corporations.
