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| Iraq |
| Al Qaeda plans wins new friends? |
| 2006-02-18 |
| COALITION FORCES UNCOVER PLAN TO ATTACK ALBU-NIMR TRIBE Release Date: 2/18/2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces discovered an al Qaeda plan to attack and kill members of the Albu-Nimr Tribe. During an operation in a rural area approximately 30 miles northeast of Ramadi Feb. 11, (official press release one week later - look for release next week on follow-up ops) a document was discovered that identified plans to attack and kill Al-Nimr tribal members. The plan revealed rocket attacks and assassinations against the tribe of Albu-Nimr in Hit. A second document outlined details of how al Qaeda degraded and destroyed phone switches in Haditha, Al-Baghdadi, and Hit and took phone cards away from people so they could not call out. (How important is this Albu-Nimr tribe? Sound like potential allies to me.) Al Qaeda threatened to follow-up with further action if the switches are fixed. Coalition Forces turned both documents over to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #1 Sounds like a blood feud in the making. Even the local enemies of Albu-Nimr are not going to be happy with outsiders doing crap like that, for fear that they might get blamed and some of their people hit in mistaken retaliation. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-02-18 18:21 |