Groundhog Day: Iranian-Trained Special Groups Operatives Captured In Baghdad
Bill Roggio over at Long War Journal has some more fascination coverage of whats taking place in Iraq…
By Bill Roggio
Iraqi and Coalition security forces continue to press operations against the Mahdi Army in Baghdad. Iraqi security forces clashed with the Mahdi Army in eastern Baghdad as raids in search of Mahdi Army weapons caches continue in Sadr city and throughout Baghdad.
Iraqi security forces killed 10 Mahdi Army fighters in eastern Baghdad early today, Multinational Forces Iraq reported in a press release. Another Mahdi Army fighter was wounded and subsequently captured. The exact location of the clash has not been given. The US military said the fight occurred in eastern Baghdad, which could refer to either Sadr City or New Baghdad, which is also a Mahdi Army stronghold.
Iraqi Special Operations Forces also captured three of the Iranian-trained Special Groups operatives during raids in Baghdad. One of the operatives helped purchase, distribute, and employ rockets, mortars, and roadside bombs used against Iraqi and US forces. The two other operatives are behind the “kidnapping, torturing and killing Iraqi citizens and forcing them out of their homes.”
US and Iraqi forces believe they have put a major dent in the manpower of the Special Groups over the past year. “In partnership with Iraqi Security Forces, Multinational Division Baghdad has detained 418 AQI [al Qaeda in Iraq] and 450 SG [Special Groups] operatives,” said Lieutenant Colonel Steven Stover, the chief Public Affairs Officer for Multinational Division Baghdad, in an e-mail to The Long War Journal.
A significant percentage of those captured are high-value targets. “Operatives range from Senior Leaders, to Media Experts to Attack Coordinators, Facilitators and Operators who actively and indiscriminately attack Iraqi Civilians,” Stover said. “Approximately one third of these captured come from the leadership ranks of their respective cells. Approximately two thirds are other operatives that are critical to the day-to-day conduct of extremist attack planning & execution.”
Continued at Long War Journal
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Don’t capture them - KILL THEM!!!!!!
May 29th, 2008 at 5:53 amI am so glad the Iraqis are doing the majority of the catching these days instead of us with all of our niceties about due process and hands off approach to interrogation.
Get the info you need and then pop these freaks in the melon, winning the war one corpse at a time.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:21 amGreat, Obama can interview them if he ever grows a pair and goes to Iraq.
Yeah I know, it’ll never happen…Hussein growing a pair.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:59 pm