Roggio: Operation Lightning Hammer in Diyala
Bill Roggio:
Clearing operation launched against al Qaeda in Iraq in the Diyala River Valley
On the same day Multinational Forces Iraq announced Phantom Strike, a major operation against the networks of al Qaeda in Iraq and Iranian-backed Shia terror groups, Coalition forces announced the onset of a major clearing operation in Diyala province. Dubbed Operation Lightning Hammer, elements of two Iraqi Army divisions, Diyala police, five US combat brigades and a combat air brigade are striking al Qaeda positions in the Diyala River Valley north of Baqubah.
Multinational Division – North is “Taking advantage of concentrated forces in Diyala province” to launch the search for al Qaeda operatives who fled Baqubah. Over 16,000 US and Iraqi troops are involved in the operation. Lightning Hammer began when “Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, partnered with members of the 5th Iraqi Army Division, initiated the operation with a late-night air assault into targeted locations to capture or kill al-Qaeda.”
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August 14th, 2007 at 12:51 pmMore steel enemas for the goat-fucking muj.
August 14th, 2007 at 1:40 pmA bit off topic. Do any of you know what the religious belief’s of Petraeus happen to be?
August 14th, 2007 at 3:11 pmThe “Hitch” has yet another stellar column, well worth the read:
Fighting the “Real” Fight: Foolish myths about al-Qaida in Mesopotamia.
By Christopher Hitchens
http://www.slate.com/id/2172152/nav/tap2/
August 14th, 2007 at 3:44 pmHere’s another … Doing the job the American MSM doesn’t want to do:
BAGHDAD BABYLON
Hope and Despair in Divided Iraq
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,499154,00.html
August 14th, 2007 at 4:20 pmJay-eez-us-aich-kee-raist, drillanwr!
THAT was from “der Spiegel”?!?!?
Wonder what hairless reid, nanny pelositis, and EX-Marine murtha would say about THAT!
…not a damned thing, of course…..
But to see it on THAT site?
My chin damn-near dented my laptop, but then again, the Germans recently elected Angela Merkel…and Sarkozy took over for jack schitrack in France…..
Seems there’s the beginnings of a “common sense” outbreak.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:00 pmI only hope it becomes a pandemic.
Touch;
August 16th, 2007 at 2:25 amVH points out that the left is scurrying to be on the winning side; remember the old, “Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan.” The next step will be kindly offers to show us how to manage the victory properly, of course.