200 Suspected Insurgents Arrested In Iraq

[Barrett808]

TAL AFAR, Iraq (AP) U.S. and Iraqi forces have encircled the insurgent stronghold of Tal Afar, and the Iraqi military on Thursday announced the arrest of 200 suspected insurgents — most of them foreign fighters.

The Iraqi military said 150 of those arrested Wednesday in this town near the Syrian border were Arabs from Syria, Sudan, Yemen and Jordan.

The joint forces have reported heavy battles on the outskirts of the city and several bombings that have mainly killed civilians. Iraqi authorities reported most of the civilian population had fled the city, which is 260 miles north of Baghdad and about 35 miles from the Syrian border.

"Our forces arrested 150 non-Iraqi Arabs yesterday in addition to 50 Iraqi terrorists with fake documents as they were trying to flee the city with the (civilian) families," Iraqi army Capt. Mohammed Ahmed said.

"We ordered the families to evacuate the Sunni neighborhood of Sarai, which is believed to be the main stronghold of the insurgents," Ahmed said

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[maxsolomon]

1. whack a mole

can we go home now?

[brooklynite]

2. Arrested? I thought using police powers against terrorists was wimpy...

[Selatius]

3. There will be more foreign fighters, and more, and more

The foreign fighters will keep coming to fight US troops the same as they did against Soviet troops in Afghanistan two decades ago. We haven't even talked about Iraqi fighters either. We're just talking about foreign fighters.

[bribri16]

4. The operative word is " suspected" n/t

[Tempest]

6. Consider this

U.S. generals have said more than 90% of the prisoners in Abu Ghraib were innocent of all wrong-doing.

If 200 "suspected" people were arrested, only 20 are guilty of anything.

[ElectroPrincess]

7. "suspected" = happened to be on the street when the occupiers

decided to figuratively crack down on crime. I wonder how many women and children are nabbed? I'm so ashamed of the vast majority of our national leaders, BOTH Democrat and Republican. They are indifferent millionaire, the investor class warmongers. :cry:

[Javaman]

5. Arrested, huh? Were they read their rights?

Oh that's right, they have none!

colossal failure*.