Confusion Reigns as U.S. Raid Misses Target in Iraq

[maddezmom]

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - It began with U.S. troops busting through the doors of the wrong house.



Dozens of soldiers rammed the white gates of a well-to-do home in central Mosul early on Tuesday, detaining three Iraqi men, only to discover their target was a house with black gates.


"Four houses down," said the elderly homeowner patiently, his hands bound behind his back by yellow plastic cuffs.


"You've got the wrong people," he told the officer leading the operation in good English, his wife, daughter and two pajama-clad grandchildren cowering alongside him, trying to avoid the glare from the spotlights on the soldiers' guns.


For the past 19 months, U.S. forces have carried out raids across Iraq (news - web sites), sometimes netting big targets and gathering key intelligence to help them combat the sort of mounting insurgency that swept through Mosul this month, routing the police
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more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041123/ts_nm/iraq_mosul_raid_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

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[cubsfan forever]

14. And of course, Resident WetDiaper wouldn't know

anything about this because he RAN AWAY when a similar thing was happening in Southeast Asia. Your picture needs to be sent to all the COWARDS and IDIOTS who voted for little Hitler. My heart goes out to the family of the soldier.

Professor 2

[pk_du]

2. Ah there you go...."pyjama-clad"....obviously terrrorists

dont believe a word they say

/sarc off

[maddezmom]

4. At the wrong house, the search went on.....

At the wrong house, the search went on, with soldiers overturning every room for evidence to link the family to Iraq's insurgency.


They turned up at least one AK-47 assault rifle -- common to nearly all Iraqi homes and generally permitted by U.S. forces -- and around $3,000, according to a U.S. investigator.


"That's a lot of money right there," he said, shaking his head, although wealthy Iraqis often keep sums of much more than $3,000 at home because banks are not trusted.

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so they destroy the house even though it was the wrong one all along.... :(

[leftchick]

3. Even knowing it was the wrong target...

They still fucked up their home. I wonder if they gave the money back.
:mad:


<At the wrong house, the search went on, with soldiers overturning every room for evidence to link the family to Iraq's insurgency.


They turned up at least one AK-47 assault rifle -- common to nearly all Iraqi homes and generally permitted by U.S. forces -- and around $3,000, according to a U.S. investigator.


"That's a lot of money right there," he said, shaking his head, although wealthy Iraqis often keep sums of much more than $3,000 at home because banks are not trusted. >

[UL_Approved]

5. The best part of the article

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"Squad Two, get to the house three doors down with the black gates," Captain Robert Lackey ordered over the radio. Several heavily armed men with night-vision scopes attached to their helmets trotted out into the rain.

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It looks like Gestapo raids looking for Jews.

[saigon68]

11. Nazi Gestapo raid sponsored by the PNAC and HALLIBURTON

support the troops

[leftchick]

6. confusion and ignorance reign....

good lord...from the end...

~snip~
Back at base, the operation was declared a success.

"I feel bad that we didn't get the guy we were looking for," Lackey said. "But you know what, just his knowing that we've been by and that we're looking for him is likely to stop him getting up to his activities."

:crazy:

[jdj]

8. I wonder if it was the night vision goggles

colors look green and green through them

[livinbella]

10. This incursion will make him redouble his efforts

same as you are I would

[w4rma]

15. And the family and their friends who were just accedentally raided are

probably now helping the insurgency. This war was lost before it began.

[Rose Siding]

13. It was one of those catastrophic successes

They report on the reality they create, we decide.

[bullimiami]

7. I fucking hate the propaganda reporting.

80% crap. propaganda puff bullshit.
The facts are short and simple.
The prowar propaganda about how they are hunting baathists, the big target small target, the 18 months .... bullhonkey.

[jobycom]

9. They hate us for our freedoms! nt.

[CO Liberal]

12. I Didn't Know They Had Target Stores in Iraq!!!!

:-)

[damntexdem]

16. Well, after all, the entire war constitutes missing the target.

Compared to that, being a few houses off is fairly accurate. ;-)