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| Iraq |
| 837 Terrorist Killed in Surge to Date |
| 2007-06-02 |
| The pace of operations has quickened in the city. Since January 15, U.S. servicemembers have conducted 98 battalion-level operations, Odierno said. The troops neutralized six car-bomb factories and dismantled four improvised-explosive-device cells. Coalition and Iraqi forces have killed 837 insurgents and terrorists and wounded 180. In addition, coalition forces have found 441 arms caches in Baghdad just since January. In all of 2006, coalition troops found 266 caches, the general said. |
| Posted by:Chuck Simmins |
| #5 True, Verlaine. You know if we fought this like, oh WWII, it would be over by now. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-06-02 20:31 |
| #4 Exactly, TW. Clearly there will be several detainees, on average, for each toe tag. Sort of amazing what you can do when you, ya know, actually sort of fight a war, instead of relying on magic tricks and b.s. to win. Our operations still probably amount to a pretty feeble effort, historically speaking. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2007-06-02 18:01 |
| #3 I'd guess at least twice as many captured (including the wounded -- how else would we know how many of those there are?) as killed, Glenmore, based on nothing more than gut feel after having read so many posts here. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-02 17:46 |
| #2 Presumably some captured as well. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-06-02 17:31 |
| #1 About two battalions of enemy killed and wounded. Puts it in perspective. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-06-02 16:17 |