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US Forces Rescue Iraqi Hostages Held By Terrorists

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News from the frontlines of World War III….. 

CAMP AL ASAD, Iraq – U.S. forces rescued two Iraqis who were held captive by insurgents in the Euphrates River-city of Hit, Iraq, Wednesday.

Soldiers from the Friedburg, Germany-based 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division rescued the kidnapping victims after pursuing insurgents who were fleeing in three vehicles containing the captives.     

In their escape, the insurgents fled on foot, abandoning their vehicles and victims.  The soldiers found the victims under a palm tree, handcuffed near the abandoned vehicles.  No one was killed or injured during the incident.      

“This demonstrates Coalition forces’ ability to quickly respond,” said Col. W. Blake Crowe, commanding officer for the Twentynine Palms, Calif.-based Regimental Combat Team 7.      

RCT-7 is the Coalition forces unit responsible for training Iraqi security forces and providing security in communities throughout more than 30,000 square miles in western Al Anbar Province.      

A search of the vehicles revealed multiple weapons and munitions as follows:

  • (7) RPGs
  • (5) Hand Grenades
  • (6) AK-47 Magazines
  • (1) Draganov sniper rifle with magazine
  • (1) 57 mm. Projectile
  • (3) Mortar propellant     

Further investigation revealed that the kidnapping victims were relatives of Iraqi policemen in nearby cities.  Marines here say the insurgents view the developing Iraqi police forces throughout western Al Anbar as their greatest threat.      

“They (insurgents) know that well-led, well-trained and well-equipped Iraqi police will defeat the insurgency”, said Crowe.     

Since RCT-7 assumed responsibility of the region in February, more than 2,800 Iraqi men have joined the ranks of police forces and are working in cities throughout western Al Anbar.     

1-36 is responsible for training Iraqi security forces and providing security in Hit, in support of “Operation Al Majid.”   Majid is an on-going, synchronized Coalition and Iraqi security forces “clearing and holding” operation intended to disrupt and defeat insurgent activity throughout more than 30,000 square miles in western Al Anbar Province.    

The operation began late last month. The battalion deployed to Iraq in February.

Another example of true American heroes doing the jobs that liberals don’t want themselves… and don’t want our military doing at all.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  1. “Another example of true American heroes doing the jobs that liberals don’t want themselves”.

    Can we take it then that you personally have served your country in this job “liberals don’t want”? No? Other priorities? Well, you certainly seem very pro-war and your blogname implies you’re ready and willing to serve. If, as you state, we are already in “World War III”, shouldn’t you be getting on down to the recruiting center? It IS a volunteer military, you know.

  2. According to the press release, the action occured on 12/27.

    The casualty report for that day for coalition forces. (from http://www.icasualties.org)

    US NAME NOT RELEASED YET
    Al Anbar Province Hostile – hostile fire
    US NAME NOT RELEASED YET
    Baghdad Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack
    US NAME NOT RELEASED YET
    Baghdad Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack
    US NAME NOT RELEASED YET
    Baghdad Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack
    US Lance Corporal William C. Koprince Jr
    . Al Anbar Province Hostile – hostile fire
    LAT dižkareivis Vitalijs Vasiljevs
    Diwaniyah (near) – Qadisiyah Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack
    LAT dižkareivis Gints Bleija
    Diwaniyah (near) – Qadisiyah Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack
    US Specialist Douglas L. Tinsley
    Baghdad (South of) – Babil Non-hostile – vehicle rollover

  3. Too bad you don’t honor their sacrifice, Gryph!

    (As we’ve seen from other comments in this forum, where you accuse them of being “torturers”; claim you supported the Iraq war but bitterly oppose everyone and everything to do with it; etc.)

  4. Gryph has a meaningless life. He assumes everyone else’s is also. He can not imagine sacrificing oneself for something greater than oneself. Typical leftie. And also very sad. I think it explains much of his bitterness.

  6. “LAT dižkareivis Vitalijs Vasiljevs
    Diwaniyah (near) – Qadisiyah Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack
    LAT dižkareivis Gints Bleija
    Diwaniyah (near) – Qadisiyah Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack”

    Could someone decipher this for me…

  7. #4: Gryph’s posts are almost invariably bitter, and it’s just been my experience that people who inflict bitterness on others are almost always bitter about their own lives.

    It struck me, I guess, because last night one of my sons told me that one of his friends (a Goth chick), told him she thought I was the only genuinely happy person she had ever met. I was really touched that she told him this, because I’ve been meeting some unpleasant challenges lately, and considered myself anything but happy.

    I just wish everybody had meaning, contentment, and purpose in their lives. If they did, there would be a lot less contention, and maybe more respect for those who sacrificed their lives for a greater cause. We also might be less willing to concede defeat to the terrorists if we could see beyond the body counts.

  8. “They (insurgents) know that well-led, well-trained and well-equipped Iraqi police will defeat the insurgency”, said Crowe.”

    Folks have been saying this since 2003.
    Why don’t we have a police force yet?

  9. Can we take it then that you personally have served your country in this job “liberals don’t want”? No? Other priorities?

    Question, Rheadher; since you and your fellow leftist liberals claim to support the war in Afghanistan, why aren’t you getting your rears down to the recruiting office to join up? No? Other priorities?

    And then, in response to Gryph’s list, I will present something to put it in perspective.

    Gryph and his fellow leftists like to whine about how “affected” we are by this war…..when the simple fact of the matter is that what you see there are the bodies of those “affected” by our “peace”.

    What needs to be realized is that the total number of US casualties in Iraq would fit nicely in ONE of Saddam’s mass grave sites…..and Iraq is littered with hundreds of them.

  10. Folks have been saying this since 2003.
    Why don’t we have a police force yet?

    Because the insurgents — or “freedom fighters”, as Democrats like you call them — target police recruits, police stations, and the families of police officers.

    The choice is very stark for people in Iraq — if you join the police force, you put your entire family in danger. Furthermore, there’s nothing US troops can do about it, because leftists and Democrats insist that the terrorists should not be shot at or otherwise attacked because it might cause civilian deaths.

    Bluntly put, keogh, you and your fellow leftists care more about terrorist families than you do about Iraqi police’s families. And that’s why there is not a developed Iraqi police force; leftists and Democrats prevent our forces from easily supporting them, and the insurgents simply use the Geneva Conventions to stop anyone from actually trying to get them under control and stop their kidnapping and murder of civilians.

    But that’s because the insurge

  11. since you and your fellow leftist liberals claim to support the war in Afghanistan, why aren’t you getting your rears down to the recruiting office to join up?

    Also, you can’t support law enforcement unless you’re willing to become a cop, you can’t support fighting fires unless you become a firefighter, you can’t support education unless you’re willing to drop everything and teach in the urban schools.

    (Sigh) I guess the idiotic “chickenhawk” fallacy will be around as long as there are idiotic people who actually think it’s a clever argument.

  12. #9 – To be clear: War is tragic. Honoring casualties by name is right. We should remember they were real individuals who made real sacrifices. I love it when Bruce does posts on individual heroes we have lost. Conversely, I hate it when Mama Moonbat is out there erasing her heroic son, **CASEY**.

    In the present instance (#2), I simply have good reason (from past discussions) to expect that Gryph isn’t posting the list to honor anybody’s sacrifice.

    Another note: Keep in mind that Rheader could easily be another Kewpie sockpuppet. (“Reader” was an early, and banned, Kewpie sockpuppet with basically the same style and content / obsession.)

  14. “Reader” was an early, and banned, Kewpie sockpuppet with basically the same style and content / obsession.

    1. Repeats tired leftist fallacies – Check

    2. Namecalls opponents – Check

    3. Uses obscenities in place of strong arguments – ???

    4. Refuses to answer challenges to his fallacies – Check

    Yeah, it could be kewpie, or Raj, or torrentprime, or any other drone from the GayLeftBorg Collective.

  17. “Bluntly put, keogh, you and your fellow leftists care more about terrorist families than you do about Iraqi police’s families”

    …Its amusing how one can just type something that is clearly a fallacy, yet assert it so vehemently…..

    #12 –
    I think he was posting to remind everybody that the rhetorical games played here have a real consequence somewhere else.
    But I’m uncomfy speaking for someone else.
    and
    Who are you to tell “Mama Moonbat” how to grieve?

    Happy New Year!

  18. #16 – Golden Oldies day! Kewpie and the “chickenhawk slur” seem to be back… so why shouldn’t we have to re-explain Mama Moonbat as well, to the silly people out there? Good way to close 2006.

    keogh, it is really simple: Declaring your personal support for your son’s killers and publicly hoping for their victory, in erasure of your son’s legacy and defiance of his family, is not ‘grieving’. Period.

    I don’t have to be “anybody” to know that; only an average person with some basic common sense.

    I’m not sure what it is; that is really for Mama Moonbat’s psychologist to say. I have some guesses. Narcissistic Personality Disorder comes to mind, since the effect of Mama Moonbat’s actions is to keep public attention on herself and make everyone forget Casey’s heroism and support for the Iraq war. But it’s just a guess.

    You got one thing right, keogh: The rhetorical games you try to play here and elsewhere do indeed have tragic real-life consequences.

  19. North Dallas Thirty, we were not talking about Afghanistan, were we? We were talking about Iraq and about Gay Patriot’s claim that it is part of “World War III”. So, I asked if Gay Patriot had ever served, since the force is voluntary and he’s hellbent on war, war, war. But, you couldn’t respond to that — probably because you’re another one to hump war while avoiding it. Am I right or not? As to your challenge to me parroting my “recruiting center” line, I did get to a recruiting center at age 18, registered and, having been honest in my answer to the homosexual question on the recruiting form (known as “checking the box” in those days), was ultimately rejected and thus never had the war experience — just as I suspect of most if not all Gay Patriots. Big difference between us though: I tried to serve. Now, what about you? You write like a 30-something who’s not very open about being gay and they are taking your age and type. So, have you ever seen the inside of a recruiting center?

    Commenter #12, hell-o! We’re all sockpuppets. So what’s “Calarato” a sockpuppet for? “North Dallas Thirty”? “V the K”? All three have the same dense writing style and thinking. One could be forgiven for mistaking each for the other.

  20. So exactly why are you and your little friends here not in the military and fighting in Iraq? You too sit in your cozy homes, dolling out your brand of “they way things oughta be” from your computers, yet I haven’t seen the exact reasons why you don’t give up your good jobs to go and fight “world war III”. You only seem fond of making personal attacks on people you don’t know personally instead of answering a very cogent quesiton.

  21. Kevin & other MadLibs-

    I signed up for ROTC in college, but did not have the courage to continue (among other reasons). After 9/11, I have seriously considered giving up my job and volunteering.

    But since President Clinton gave us “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”… I am sure it would take mere minutes for one of the anti-American liberals to “out” me if I even tried to sign up.

    Kevin — what is your excuse?

  22. #19 – Kewpie / “Rheader”, I’ll take that tortured, hand-waving non-denial of my suggestion in #12 as your assent to it. Thanks.

    And for the record: I have public disagreements with both NDT and V. (One example with NDT here.) Plus, V is so much funnier than me. So cut the baloney.

  23. North Dallas Thirty, we were not talking about Afghanistan, were we?

    Let me see….where, exactly, in this statement did you specify ANY country?

    Can we take it then that you personally have served your country in this job “liberals don’t want”? No? Other priorities? Well, you certainly seem very pro-war and your blogname implies you’re ready and willing to serve. If, as you state, we are already in “World War III”, shouldn’t you be getting on down to the recruiting center? It IS a volunteer military, you know.

    I think what this makes clear is that you think that anyone who supports any military action should serve themselves — except you and your fellow leftists, of course, given that none of you are in Kosovo, Haiti, or Afghanistan.

    But you’re excused from consideration for Desert Storm, since you leftists and Democrats opposed THAT war.

    Meanwhile, as to the other portion of your post:

    But, you couldn’t respond to that — probably because you’re another one to hump war while avoiding it. Am I right or not?

    Since you’ve obviously already made up your mind, I see no reason to waste the effort in explaining the facts of the matter. I’d much rather let you continue to demonstrate that you make derogatory statements about people not serving without knowing thing one about their record.

  28. In keeping with the Golden Oldies theme, why shouldn’t I explain the word “terrorist” to the silly people once more?

    Grownups who study these things divide combatants in a grid, based on 2 axes: (1) whether the combatants wear uniforms to distinguish them from civilians and MAKE themselves targets (so their enemy won’t have to target civilians to win); and (2) whether the combatants themselves deliberately target civilians (their own, or the enemy’s). Thus:

    (a) Wear a uniform, normally try to minimize civilian casualties: Honorable combatant.
    (b) Wear a uniform, deliberately slaughter civilians: War criminal.
    (c) Don’t wear a uniform, try to minimize civilian casualties: Guerilla / Irregular.
    (d) Don’t wear a uniform, deliberately slaughter civilians: Terrorist.

    The so-called “insurgents” of Iraq have always been terrorists all along.

    Only the morally blind, military-hating, America-hating thinking of the Left caused Lefties (including most of the MSM) to mis-label them as “insurgents” for political propaganda purposes.

  29. #24 – LOL. I didn’t see the deleted original; but the comment’s existence – and the fact it had to be deleted – belie #13.

    I’m violating # 13 by responding to you now, but I didn’t in 24 as I soley addresed GP’s comment. And for the record, I did not violate any “rules”, other than ticking off GP.