"They came at dawn, thousands of Iraqi troops and U.S. special forces on a mission to reclaim a lawless city from the militias who ran it.
By the end of the day, al-Amarah was under Iraqi government control — without a shot being fired.
The city had been taken over by Moqtada al-Sadr's al-Mahdi Army two years ago after British troops handed it to an ill-prepared Iraqi Army. On Thursday, the city's streets were crawling with Iraqi security forces. Soldiers searched houses as police manned checkpoints and Soviet-era tanks guarded bridges over the Tigris River."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,369421,00.html
Yup, another victory to "celebrate." Like the ones we'll be "celebrating" a week from now, and a month from now, and so on and so forth, shia militia one minute, al qaeda of arabian peninsula the next minute.
3 Comments
adaydream at 11:04 AM JST - 20th June
They ought to be doing this anyway and American forces need to come home!!!!!! < :-)
RedMeatKoolAid at 07:07 PM JST - 20th June
They did much more than hunt the Shiite fighters:
"They came at dawn, thousands of Iraqi troops and U.S. special forces on a mission to reclaim a lawless city from the militias who ran it. By the end of the day, al-Amarah was under Iraqi government control — without a shot being fired.
The city had been taken over by Moqtada al-Sadr's al-Mahdi Army two years ago after British troops handed it to an ill-prepared Iraqi Army. On Thursday, the city's streets were crawling with Iraqi security forces. Soldiers searched houses as police manned checkpoints and Soviet-era tanks guarded bridges over the Tigris River." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,369421,00.html
rjd_jr at 10:06 AM JST - 21st June
Yup, another victory to "celebrate." Like the ones we'll be "celebrating" a week from now, and a month from now, and so on and so forth, shia militia one minute, al qaeda of arabian peninsula the next minute.
No end in sight.
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