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Iraq
MNF fighter jets raid Al-Qaeda hideout
2008-01-10
(KUNA) -- US warplanes destroyed one of Al-Qaeda hideouts and Kazakh forces found a weapons depot in separate operations in Iraq. US F-16 fighter jets dropped two 500-pound bombs, destroying a house used by al-Qaeda to make and store improvised explosive devices in Busayefi, near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the MNF said in a statement on Wednesday.

According to the statement, the operation, conducted on Sunday, was executed by the MNF Center soldiers. The house-turned-hideout was destroyed and explosive making materials were found and confiscated.

Another MNF statement said members from Iraqi civil forces division handed the Kazakh forces a weapons depot that contained about 1,369 ordnance. The statement quoted a Kazakh Army source as saying that the cache, dating back to the Iraqi-Iranian war, was delivered to the Iraqi forces.
Posted by:Fred

#7  Ok, it's not entirely a silly question. She does represent what the Islamicists hate and would outlaw if they could. But her government sent her and paid for her time here, so the Islamicists aren't having it all their way by any means.

How it plays out in the future we'll have to see.
Posted by: lotp   2008-01-10 08:45  

#6  Not silly as to the second.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-01-10 08:45  

#5  What a silly question, NS!

Of course not, to both questions. And last I heard she was a computer science major, which is not surprising since her father was a CS professor.
Posted by: lotp   2008-01-10 08:44  

#4  Did she wear a burqa and chador at the Point? Does she now?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-01-10 08:13  

#3  Kazakhstan is an interesting place. They've sent at least one (ethnically Russian) cadet to West Point under the academy's foreign student program. She did pretty well from what I've been told, academically and on the military side, graduated and went back home to a military commission.

FWIW
Posted by: lotp   2008-01-10 08:10  

#2  Is Kazahkstan the only Islamic country with troops in Iraq? (Technically they are only ~half Islamic, but their laws are significantly Islamic - except for the universal suffrage part.)
Posted by: Glenmore   2008-01-10 07:25  

#1  Kazahkstan has 29 military personnel in Iraq, combat engineers attached to the Polish contingent, according to Global Security.org
Posted by: Gromomble Oppressor of the Iowans8916   2008-01-10 04:31  

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