Insurgents Living On US Bases
A journalist friend of mine in Ramadi, sent me an email a few days ago, describing how he had just come back from a patrol with Sunni insurgents who had spent the last two years battling the Marines. I asked him how he had put that together. “It was no big deal, they live on the OP with us now. They’re on our side. They were going out on a routine patrol and the Marines said I could go with them”. No Marines went on the patrol, although the Marines often do joint patrols and ops with them.
Just months ago, it would have been unthinkable to be anywhere in Ramadi without U.S. military protection. It was a guaranteed death sentence.
And Ramadi, which had exclusively been further destroyed by bombs and bullets every day, is now going through a massive construction boom.
Two days ago a Marine there told me of his platoon. “We haven’t seen an IED in four months”. When we were there together, we were lucky we didn’t see or hear one in four hours.
Welcome to the “lost” Al Anbar province.
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August 25th, 2007 at 3:05 pmI hope this is transforming sections of that society, that these lessons of fighting for freedom from tyranny begin to take hold and that the freedom gained will move their society into the 21st century
August 25th, 2007 at 6:13 pmChoiDucOy-Roger that.
August 25th, 2007 at 6:22 pmGreat news about Ramadi. Troops I send care packages to reside there. They have written it’s not as bad as it was. Give it time this good news will spread throughout Iraq.
August 26th, 2007 at 6:07 amIritx;
August 26th, 2007 at 10:44 amthe Iraqi grapevine is so fast I’m sure the news was spread before it even happened. Along with 50 other rumours and assessments that ranged from takeover of the MNF by AQI to wholesale conversion of the Sunni to Christianity.