Here is news that Katie Couric will not report on this evening in her debut on the CBS Evening News….
From US Central Command, September 5 2006:
CAMP AL ASAD, Iraq – Iraqi police and soldiers, along with U.S. Marines and soldiers from Regimental Combat Team 7, detained 30 confirmed insurgents and 38 suspected insurgents over the weekend throughout the western Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
RCT-7 is the U.S. military unit responsible for western Anbar Province, an area of more than 30,000 square-miles which stretches from the Jordanian and Syrian borders hundreds of miles east to Hit, a city about 70 miles northwest of Ramadi. U.S. and Iraqi forces detained the known and suspected insurgents through a series of pre-planned and routine counterinsurgency operations.
Iraqi police identified and detained 18 of the 38 captured suspected insurgents in Rawah, Iraq – a city of about 20,000 along the Euphrates River, about 50 miles east of the Iraqi-Syrian border.
One of the suspects captured by Rawah police officers is wanted for suspected involvement with a vehicle suicide bombing against a U.S. military check point in the region July 29. Several more captured in Rawah are suspected of involvement with a recent attack on a Rawah police officer’s family. Police officers in Rawah also discovered two improvised explosive devices there Sunday. Iraqi and U.S. soldiers detained one known insurgent and 10 suspected insurgents Sunday in Hit, a city of about 60,000, located approximately 70 miles northwest of Ramadi.
Through a variety of counterinsurgency operations Saturday and Sunday, Iraqi police, Iraqi soldiers, and U.S. Marines captured 27known insurgents and four suspected insurgents in the Haditha Triad, a cluster of three cities – Haditha, Barwanah, and Haqlaniyah – with a combined population of about 90,000. One captured insurgent was part of a four-man insurgent cell operating in Hadithah, another is suspected of having involvement with various small arms attacks against a U.S. base in Barwanah. U.S. Marines captured six more suspected insurgents Saturday in Sa’dah, a town just east of the Iraqi-Syrian border.
Marines also discovered an ordnance cache near the border on Saturday. The cache consisted of 120 mm rockets, 155 mm rockets, and 122 mm rockets.
The central front in the War on Terror remains in Iraq. God Bless our soldiers for taking the fight to the enemy so we don’t have car bombs blowing up in our streets.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Well, she will cover it if the terrorists allege that they were mistreated, humiliated, or had their Korans mishandled. Then, it will lead the news for the next three months.
I guess that’s why they call it CBS.
Because all you see is BS.
Regards,
Peter H.
To all of our military soldiers within Iraq…
THANK YOU! I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN YOU GUYS WHEN I PRAY!
PLEASE, COME HOME SAFELY! WE ALL LOVE YOU AND ARE PROUD OF YOU!
(regardless of the sad ways that the media portrays you guys!)
Great news except it seems a bit overshadowed by the news from Pakistan:
“Pakistan has openly admitted that it would let Osama bin Laden remain a free man if committed to living a peaceful existance in the region. “If he is in Pakistan, bin Laden ‘would not be taken into custody,’ Major General Shaukat Sultan Khan told ABC News in a telephone interview, ‘as long as one is being like a peaceful citizen,” reports ABC News’ The Blotter. An independent intelligence source confirms Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan Khan’s position is an accurate reflection of Pakistani policy. [Note: Pakistan has since retracted its statements on bin Laden and immunity, but the Blotter transcript of teh interview refutes this.]”
http://billroggio.com/archives/2006/09/talibanistan_the_est.php
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Here is news that Katie Couric will not report on this evening in her debut on the CBS Evening News….
Since I’m here in Germany, I didn’t get to see the debut of Perky Katie on the CBS Evening News, but I’m wondering. Are you really suggesting that CBS News is supposed to be the (oral) stenographer for the US Government/Military? Give me a break. The US already has NBC (owned by government contractor General Electic) and ABC (the Disney channel) as stenographers.
BTW, regarding
The central front in the War on Terror remains in Iraq.
Um, not really. The central front in the War on (Some) Terror extends from Morocco (remember the bombings of the trains in Madrid a few years ago? and the bombings in Morocco itself?), through Egypt (remember the Muslim Brotherhood bombings of tourist areas that have been going on for years?), into Jordan (remember the various plots against tourist areas there?), into Pakistan (America’s supposed “ally,” but remember the fact that the plot against American air carriers was apparently uncovered in Pakistan), into Bali, back to Turkey (bombings of British interests in Istanbul a few years ago, and more recently further bombings).
And, quite frankly into Libanon (that’s Lebanon for the Amis). There was a plot here in Germany that was foiled a little over a month ago, in which a couple of Lebanese residing in Germany were suspected of trying to bomb a couple of RegionalZuege (regional trains) outside of Koblenz and Duisberg. The apparent intent was to cause the trains to derail and kill a few people. I don’t know whether this made the news in the USofA, but let’s understand something. Their plotting was so incompetent that I could do even better than what they did. The Rote Armee Fraktion (a/k/a Baader-Meinhof Gang, from the 1970s) was more competent at terrorism than these people were.
But the RAF (and their twins Red Brigade in Italy) were eventually subdued with a bit of effort–but not a whole lot.
To the point: the “central front in the War on Terror remains in Iraq”? On what do you base that assertion? Other than the fact that your St. Bush, he of Shrub, says so.
I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for a response.
Ok, raj is attesting he’s “here in Germany” and Ian, in another thread contends he’s “here in Arizona”.
Scientific question for our hosts: can a sockpuppet be in two places at once? What???
Next, we’ll hear that –as a casual aside– “blah” is in Peru or Lima or Canton. LOL.
If a sockpuppet tells a lie in a forest, is it still considered the truth?
Regards,
Peter H.
Unfortunately, RajIan, the fact that there is a “central front” does not preclude there being numerous other non-central fronts.
And perhaps you might elaborate how the German police were able to foil these plots? As I recall, it’s because the German laws that you so admire about the government being allowed to wiretap, tail, and arrest people are at the level that you denounce as “fascist” in the United States.
An amazing contradiction — RajIan likes to brag about how much better the Germans are and how the US isn’t advancing in that regard, but opposes laws that would allow the US to do the same as the German government.
#7 Peter Hughes — September 7, 2006 @ 2:05 pm – September 7, 2006
If a sockpuppet tells a lie in a forest, is it still considered the truth?
Good question. One thing that you might want to consider is that you, Matty, and “V die dummeKuh” all seem to pipe up here pretty much on schedule. I’d include NDXXX in that, but someone using that monicker also bloviates on other websites that I’ve visited.
BTW, just a question, did you have something substantive that you wanted to say? If not, why did you bother saying anything at all?
Peter writes: “If a sockpuppet tells a lie in a forest, is it still considered the truth?”
If your raj/Ian/blah, the trick is to sidestep all responsibility for civil debate, wildly speculate opinion and present it as truth, then deny you wrote it when confronted with the truth.
It’s a slick lawyerly trick. And those boys have it down pat.
As in, see raj above.
I will not descend to the level of Frau Eva Braun Sockpuppet until he/she/it provides an apology to me for calling me a drug-user. If I knew your real name and address, you would be hearing from my lawyers since I would be suing you for slander.
Based on that alone, you should be banned permanently from this board. If we were DU or DailyKaos, you would be persona non grata.
Regards,
Peter H.