Raids target Iranian aid to insurgents in Iraq
posted at 11:40 am on June 18, 2007 by Bryan
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Here’s one way to address Iran’s “emotional needs”:
Coalition raids aimed at disrupting the flow of weapons and fighters between Iraq and Iran resulted in at least 20 militants killed early Monday in eastern Iraq, according to a statement from the U.S. military.
Coalition aircraft were called in to strafe fighters who attacked Coalition troops in Amarah and Majjar al-Kabir, two Shiite cities in the Mayson province bordering Iran, the military said…
The military said it has intelligence reports indicating that Amarah and Majjar al-Kabir are safe havens and smuggling routes for terrorists to import Iranian weapons into Iraq for the insurgency.
“Reports further indicate that Iranian surrogates, or Iraqis that are liaisons for Iranian intelligence operatives into Iraq, use both Amarah and Majjar al-Kabir as safe haven locations,” the military said.
The raids apparently involved Iraqi and British troops in a multi-national force. British troops recently handed over security responsibility for the Mayson province to Iraqi security forces.
A British military spokesman said Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki personally authorized the raids.
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Now that’s the kind of jhadi group hug I can get behind.
KelliD on June 18, 2007 at 11:44 AM
I’m sayin’. Now howsabout we lob a handful of cruise badboys at the military installations, airfields, air defense and shoreline stuff, knock out their jets, and then blockade the gulf from oil tanker traffic.
Reports seem to indicate that Ahmawhackjob’s homeboys could survive without oil revenue for about an hour. That’d be such great sport!
Jaibones on June 18, 2007 at 11:51 AM
Darfur and Gorbal warming……
And the U.N. exsists for what purpose? Please give them away. Macro-mismanagement that only a crook could love.
Limerick on June 18, 2007 at 12:08 PM
ooops wrong thread…… ;(
Limerick on June 18, 2007 at 12:09 PM
Nothing makes me happier than seeing the words “strafing” and “Iran” in a news piece.
unamused on June 18, 2007 at 12:20 PM
Let’s bitch-slap those mullah-forkers!
omnipotent on June 18, 2007 at 12:34 PM
In the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya, two people were killed — including an Iraqi police officer — and 52 people were wounded in clashes between Iraqi security forces and the Mahdi militia loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official. Nasiriya is a Shiite city about 230 miles south of Baghdad.
Is there a reason Sadr is allowed to come and go. I guess he might become the new Sadamm and Bush dosen’t want to make the same mistake twice. Iraqi creed: ‘live by the sword die by the sword’. I think Sadr wouldn’t mind if that were ammended to the Iraqi constitution.
sonnyspats1 on June 18, 2007 at 12:40 PM
I hope we get better at stopping the Iranian materiel getting into Iraq, or we’re never gonna see the place stabilize.
Bad Candy on June 18, 2007 at 1:21 PM
I’d like to see some American material getting into Iran, in 2,000 lb. allotments.
Mojave Mark on June 18, 2007 at 1:50 PM
Gee, now there’s a new approach!
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on June 18, 2007 at 2:10 PM
My kinda bumper sticker that gets results.
Kini on June 18, 2007 at 2:44 PM
I don’t like al-Maliki but maybe he’s growing a pair under pressure. Watch Harry Reid take the credit, giving some to Nancy P.
Entelechy on June 18, 2007 at 4:40 PM
It just seems to me that this is the kind of thing we should have been doing from the start. Juss sayin.
oakpack on June 18, 2007 at 5:39 PM
Nancypants always had a bigger pair than Harry Pairepeas.
91Veteran on June 19, 2007 at 2:46 AM
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