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| Iraq |
| Iraqi troops defeat al Qaeda suicide assault |
| 2010-09-06 |
| Long War Journal: Iraqi soldiers defeated a complex and coordinated suicide assault today on an Army base in central Baghdad. The daylight attack was carried out by a five-man team of armed al Qaeda in Iraq fighters wearing suicide vests, and included a minibus packed with explosives. The assault began when the al Qaeda team arrived at the back gate of the Rusafa Military Command headquarters in central Baghdad, Major General Qassim al-Moussawi, a spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command, told Reuters. Two of the suicide bombers, armed with assault rifles, dismounted from the bus and attempted to storm the back gate and clear a path for the minivan. The two fighters were shot by Iraqi guards and then detonated their vests. Two other fighters dismounted from the van, again to open up a lane for the van to hit the back gate. Iraqi soldiers shot the driver before he could reach the gate. The driver then detonated the car bomb. The two remaining al Qaeda fighters fled to a nearby building and were killed after an hour-long standoff. In addition to the five al Qaeda fighters killed, four Iraqi soldiers and three civilians were reported killed while defending the base. |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #2 Reading later in the article might provide an answer: Al Qaeda in Iraq is supported primarily through its networks in eastern Syria. Last year.. Sheikh Issa al Masri is thought to have left North Waziristan and... paired up with a senior al Qaeda operative instrumental in reviving al Qaeda in Iraq's network in eastern Syria and directing terror operations in Iraq. Sheikh Issa is believed protected by the Mukhabarat, Syria's secret intelligence service. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-09-06 12:00 |
| #1 And the attackers were, Ex. Saddam hard boys? Foreign born, Arab Sunni hard boys? Foreign born, Northern Caucasus hard boys? Iranian hard boys (e.g. Syrian Hezbollah)? |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2010-09-06 10:43 |