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Surrender or Die
While the headlines have screamed about the number of our soldiers who were lost in the initial battles, they have missed–or purposely failed to report–the progress we have been making against the enemy in The Surge.
Of Baqubah, Michael Yon writes in a piece entitled “Surrender or Die”: “Our guys are winning. Al Qaeda is about to be strangled and pummeled to death in this town.”
Bill Roggio at The Fourth Rail reports: “Operation Phantom Thunder, the corps coordinated operation across three theaters in the Baghdad Belts, has completed it seventh day. Ground forces commander Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno gave a briefing on the operation. To date, Coalition and Iraqi forces have killed 159 al Qaeda fighters and other insurgents, wounded 41, and detained 721 suspects. Coalition and Iraqi forces found and destroyed 304 roadside bombs, seven car bombs and 128 weapons caches.”
“Operation Arrowhead Ripper, the campaign in the Diyala theater, remains the hottest of the three. So far the bulk of the fighting is occurring in Baqubah, the provincial capital. “At least 55 al-Qaida operatives have been killed, 23 have been detained, 16 weapons caches have been discovered, 28 improvised explosive devices have been destroyed and 12 booby-trapped structures have been destroyed,” since the start of Arrowhead Ripper, Multinational Forces Iraq reported. Coalition and Iraqi forces also found an al Qaeda “torture chamber.” Upwards of 1,000 al Qaeda fighters are thought to be holed up in the western half of the city.”
The truth is this: we are winning. Al Qaeda is being dealt with in Iraq. If we don’t deal with them there, they will try and kill us here.
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