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2005-09-12 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2005-09-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I am impressed with the level of competence of the Iraqi forces involved. Jafaari has finally begun to get it... And the Sunnis are getting it, too - just 2 yrs late.

Posted by .com 2005-09-12 00:34|| 2005-09-12 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Does seem like the Iraqi forces have acquitted themselves well on this operation.

Key issue will be, in the after-action review and report, whether Iraqi non-coms and officers can handle the critique. If they can and they can learn from the inevitable mistakes, then they'll really have something.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2005-09-12 00:54|| 2005-09-12 00:54|| Front Page Top

#3 When the other side starts talking about final battles, things aren't going well for them. If these guys are beaten in anything less than five years, it will have been the best-prosecuted large-scale counter-guerrilla war anyone's seen in a while. Note that the Russians are still fighting the Chechens, and it's been over a decade since they started. Note also that the Iraqi guerrillas started out with Saddam's billions (Iraq's pre-war treasury) - something you can't say about the Chechens, who operated on a shoestring.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-12 02:13|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-12 02:13|| Front Page Top

#4 If they're demanding that the operations in Tal Afar cease or else they'll attack soft targets in Baghdad, it means they are taking a colossal beating. Holy warriors should relish a good fight with the infidels, possibly leading to matyrdom and copious virgin pussy.

Posted by Homer from London 2005-09-12 02:31|| 2005-09-12 02:31|| Front Page Top

#5 156 killed
246 captured
I'd like to see the ratio reversed but good news non the less.

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-09-12 10:05|| 2005-09-12 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Wonder the breakdown between Iraqi's and foreign fighters. Like to know what's happening to the foreign boyz sent back to their homelands. I hear Maummar is handing out full metal jackets.

Posted by Rightwing 2005-09-12 11:46|| 2005-09-12 11:46|| Front Page Top

#7 You know the operation's going well because it hasn't been covered at all by the mainstream media, other than an article in the Washington Post.

Posted by WhiteCollarRedneck 2005-09-12 12:41|| 2005-09-12 12:41|| Front Page Top

#8 I think some of you may be missing the point - or Zark's point, anyway.

I think he means the final battle to drive the Americans out and win the war, like cheering on the Soviet soldiers outside of Berlin in 1945. He's losin' it!

Posted by Bobby 2005-09-12 12:50|| 2005-09-12 12:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Bobby: I think he means the final battle to drive the Americans out and win the war, like cheering on the Soviet soldiers outside of Berlin in 1945. He's losin' it!

Well - when the other side starts talking about a final battle, and it involves a remote area like Tal Afar rather than Baghdad, I don't think it's a sign that they have the upper hand.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-12 16:04|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-12 16:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Now it is time to really go after them, bomb their safehouses and capitalise on the recent success....

Posted by Mctavish Mcpherson 2005-09-12 16:33|| 2005-09-12 16:33|| Front Page Top

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