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Iraq
Troops detain Iraqi Army battalion commander
2007-09-14
Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers detained an Iraqi Army battalion commander for suspected involvement in criminal militia activities.

Last week, elements from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division moved to the living quarters of an Iraqi Army battalion commander and took him into custody. He allegedly selected criminal militia members for the Baha al Araji Company and is suspected of ordering an attack on Coalition Forces in April. He is also suspected of involvement in the removal of Sunni families from neighborhoods in western Baghdad. "This arrest will have two effects. First, it will disrupt the illegal activities of criminal militias in the area, specifically within the Iraqi Army, and second, it will help to restore local trust in the Iraqi Security Forces," said Maj. Guy Wetzel, a brigade staff officer for 2nd BCT, 1st Inf. Div.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Try hoping for something practical---like finding a million $ on a sidewalk, Sherry.

Or discovering that Madelene A. and Ehud O. get hot & randy; their issued forth; an ugly Love Child, a coward thru and thru...
Posted by: Red Dawg   2007-09-14 17:08  

#2  I hope they stay on our side

Try hoping for something practical---like finding a million $ on a sidewalk, Sherry.
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-09-14 08:04  

#1  Sounds like a Michael Yon dispatch the time he described being with a American Colonel? (short term memory is the first to go) who suddenly reached over an Iraqi officer, took his gun, and put him under arrest!

I don't know about you, but with the training these Iraqis are getting, and the reports from our troops about how good they are getting, I hope they stay on our side!

Too bad, our "Congressional Leaders" can't grasped the rapid day-to-day progress that is being made.

Michael Yon has been out of Iraqi awhile and is now back.

He reports: I was the first to say Iraq was in civil war, and many readers were angry to hear me say it. Well, I'll be the first to say that I predict some sort of milestone for the war in Iraq will occur early in the next year. It's dangerous to predict like this, but something fundamental has changed in Iraq.

And I can feel that change from reading of our Milblogs...
Posted by: Sherry   2007-09-14 00:58  

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