U.S. Forces Carry Out Raids in Mosul

[leftchick]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=416429


~snip~

In the Mosul area, the U.S. Army's Stryker Brigade Combat Team detained 11 suspected insurgents, including an alleged cell leader, and seized weapons and bomb making material in several weekend raids part of the military's strategy to try to secure the city short of launching an all-out offensive.

East of Mosul, a Katyusha rocket slammed into a home near the Kurdish regional parliament building in Irbil where leaders of the two main Kurdish parties were meeting to discuss the election, a police official said Sunday.

~snip~

U.S. and Iraqi officials are scrambling to recruit new police and election workers in Mosul after thousands of them resigned in the face of rebel intimidation. A new police chief was appointed a week ago to command a force of barely 1,000 police. Last November the city had 5,000 police.

Similar mass resignations are believed to have occurred in other Sunni Muslim areas of northern, central and western Iraq.

"I would underscore that there was intimidation in Afghanistan the Taliban threatened all kinds of violence against people who registered or people who voted," Wolfowitz told reporters Sunday in Jakarta, Indonesia. "But I don't believe they ever got around to shooting election workers in the street or kidnapping the children of political candidates."



A US soldier (R) from the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment inspects a room as an Iraqi boy waits in another during a house-by-house search looking for illegal weapons and asking citizens about insurgents in Mosul.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)

[DrDebug]

1. Everything is fine. There's nothing to see

U.S. and Iraqi officials are scrambling to recruit new police and election workers in Mosul after thousands of them resigned in the face of rebel intimidation. A new police chief was appointed a week ago to command a force of barely 1,000 police. Last November the city had 5,000 police.

So much for stability and home rule. 1,000 police for a population of 1,200,000. So it's basically anarchy with foreign troops being the only law and order

[leftchick]

2. I believe the population of Mosul....

is closer to 3 million.

[DrDebug]

3. That's even worse :(

I couldn't find it that quickly so I googled and saw the 1,2 million written somewhere

[jmcgowanjm]

7. Resistance puts it at 2.1 million

Monday, 10 January 2005.


In response to threat offensive by the Americans, mosques
in Mosul called up all the Resistance fighting detachments
and issued permission to women to carry arms along with
the men if necessary.  One Shaykh in a local mosque
told Mafkarat al-Islam that the US blockade on Monday was
a test and that the Resistance would mount a very
heavy response.

The commander of the al-Faruq Brigades declared that
the armed Resistance groups had taken the
necessary measures, indicating that supplies of men,
materiel and equipment were arriving.  He said, “we are ready
for a second Battle of Badr,” referring to a victorious battle
waged by the Prophet Muhammad.  At the time
the correspondent filed his dispatch (posted at noon
Monday) the US blockade of the city of Mosul, which has
a POPULATION of 2,150,000, was still in force.  The situation
was tense and US forces had expelled four correspondents
for Arabic satellite news stations from the city, raising
further suspicions among Resistance fighters that the
US intended to launch an attack.

http://www.freearabvoice.org/Iraq/Report/report169.htm

[anarchy1999]

4. "wolfowitz" says it all. Just say "wolfie"

He and his associates will be the death of the US. He and his association with Israel and Sharon. Someday, someone will pay attention.

[jmcgowanjm]

8. Israel-the only country w/o a border

The reason for the settlements in the West Bank - what they
call Judea and Samaria - is obviously not to stop terrorism, as
it only encourages a reaction from the Palestinians. It is to
begin the process of claiming the land promised to Abram
and once ruled by Solomon. The 'logic' that requires the theft
of the West Bank from the Palestinian people inescapably
also requires the extension of Greater Israel from Egypt to
the Euphrates. Everything, and I mean everything, that the
current government of Israel does is directed towards the
Project of creating Greater Israel, beginning with seizing
Judea and Samaria. If Abbas is a 'negotiating partner' the
Project is ruined, as the State of Palestine will stop everything
in its tracks. Therefore, it is necessary to find an excuse not
to negotiate with him. The World can watch the Project
continue until it causes a world war, world-wide
economic catastrophe, and millions of deaths, or it can put
a stop to it now by forcing Israel to start to act in good
faith towards a negotiated settlement.

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/

[hector459]

5. I hope the people who voted for Bust to "ratify" this war feel accountable

for all the deaths taking place in Iraq.

[DELUSIONAL]

6. anyone who voted for bush is guilty of war crimes

because he is claiming his "re-election" shows Americans support his actions (murder) in Iraq.

Therefore anyone who voted for bush is guilty of war crimes. Period.

[jmcgowanjm]

9. IRR 011505 Details of Saturday’s battle in ar-Ramadi.

In a dispatch posted at 6:40pm Saturday evening Mecca
time, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the morning battle in the
city ended at exactly 3pm in those neighborhoods where it
had raged after US forces pulled out of the city, taking with
them the wreckage of 11 American military vehicles,
including three armored vehicles. The correspondent
reported seeing those vehicles with his own eyes as they
were pulled out of the neighborhoods on huge transport
trucks. US warplanes continued to prowl the skies above the
city until the time he filed his report.

The correspondent met Dr. Taha Ahmad of ar-Ramadi
General Hospital who showed him the bodies of the
dead fighters and local people. He said that 22 martyrs
had fallen, among them 13 Resistance fighters and
nine civilians, including a woman who was with the
Resistance and was killed when she was trying to recover
the body of her son, one of the fighters. The doctor said,
“we found her with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in her
hands, which we could only extract with difficulty since she
died clasping it so tightly.”

The General Command of the Islamic Resistance announced
in a communiqué issued an hour after the fighting ended that
11 US vehicles had been destroyed, one helicopter shot
down, and 30 US troops killed. The Resistance also seized
a number of US weapons.

[jmcgowanjm]

10. Doesn't this description of prisoner escape make more sense?

Details of Thursday’s Abu Ghurayb prison break.

Sources in the Iraqi puppet police and puppet “national
guard” told Mafkarat al-Islam on Saturday that US forces
had ordered the execution of 38 Iraqi and fraternal
Arab Resistance fighters for committing “terrorist acts” and
they were ordered taken to Baghdad to be killed and their
bodies handed over to their
relatives.

A high ranking puppet police commander in Abu Ghurayb
and the brother of a prison guard killed while transporting
the prisoners told Mafkarat al-Islam that 20 prisoners – Iraqis
as well as Jordanians, Syrians, and a number of
Saudis, Yemenis, and Egyptians – were brought by
special Daewoo transport vehicle with puppet police
license plates on Thursday. The van was equipped with
opaque windows. The prisoners were taken out of Abu
Ghurayb at 8am Thursday and driven towards a prison
inside Baghdad proper.

The correspondent reported that armed Resistance
fighters prepared an ambush for the Daewoo bus by the
Ibn Hayyan Bridge, known as the Central Markets Bridge in
the al-‘Adl neighborhood, the first neighborhood reached as
the bus traveled into western Baghdad. More than 15
Resistance fighters armed with light and medium
weapons sprang at the bus when it came past their
position. The were able to set free the prisoners and kill three
of the guards and a number of US troops when they destroyed
a US Humvee. They brought a small car and very quickly
got away from the scene with the prisoners

IRR011505

[radric]

11. Looks like ..

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf (Saddam's Minister of Information) found another job. :crazy:

[jmcgowanjm]

12. Speaking of Saddam's Minister of Information

The Battle of Baghdad April 5-8 2004
or what happened while Jessica Lynch
became a hero

ANDREA MITCHELL:  “You write very dramatically in this
terrific book, ‘Thunder Run,” David, about the assault
on Baghdad.  It‘s not as we saw it in real time on television, is
it?  There was a much grittier story on the
ground.”

DAVID ZUCCHINO:  “No, not at all.  I think the impression
that came from those three days of combat was that the
Iraqis rolled over, that there wasn‘t much of a fight and
the American forces just rolled into the city.  And it was
anything but that.  There was just some fierce, savage
fighting.  There were thousands of, you know, Iraqis
and Jordanians and Syrians who stood and fought from a
series of bunkers and ditches.  They inflicted casualties.  
They caused a lot of problems for the armored columns. 
And this w! as never reported … but it really was not an
easy victory at all.” 

Full transcript at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5343985

Everything the media told you from April 5, 2003 to June 29,
2004 was just a Bush media lie.  The media has
become Benedict Arnold, serving King
George.

Estimating the true number of US dead:

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/September/8%20o/Battle%20of%20Baghdad,%20April%205-7,%202003,%20Part%20II%20An%20Update%20By%20Eric%20H.%20May.htm

Who do think we're going to invade next-
Sy Hersh thinks Iran

I think Sharon wants us to invade Syria

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P1633

If Sharon gave an order and Bush43 gave a
contradictory one, who would Wolfowitz obey

[jmcgowanjm]

13. the night before the Battle of Baghdad began Saddam promised an attack

Well, he kept his promise. Friday night at 8:30 p.m. (Central),
I was watching CNN showing the predawn of Saturday
5:30 morning half-way around the world in
Baghdad…

All at once the skyline of the besieged city erupted with the
flash and report of sustained explosions. The CNN
people (Aaron Brown and Fredricka Whitfield) reacted
with surprise, saying that U.S. public affairs hadn’t alerted
them that there would be a major fire mission tonight.
I immediately became anxious, knowing it exceedingly
unlikely that public affairs hadn’t contacted affected media
about a major fire mission in a choreographed war. “It
probably wasn’t us doing the firing,” I thought.

In the next few minutes CNN’s reporter Walter
Rodgers, embedded with the 3/7 Cavalry, attempted to make
a report from the Baghdad Airport. Rodgers’ voice
was indistinguishable because of the extreme
background noise of artillery impacting around him,
automatic small arms fire striking his vehicle and the shouts
of the soldiers inside.

Over the weekend I picked up around twenty “indicators” (to
use the intelligence term) of a cover-up of the Battle of
Baghdad, which I believe began with the attack against the
3/7 Cavalry.

http://www.geocities.com/onlythecaptain/

"indicators"

http://www.geocities.com/onlythecaptain/appendix/appendixA.pdf