thedrifter
05-21-08, 06:34 AM
Sadr City, a Mosque and a Weapons Cache [Steve Schippert]
It's not a new development, but still worthy of attention and continued awareness. Part of understanding the enemy.
Iraqi troops uncovered a large cache of arms in a raid on a Baghdad mosque on Monday amid signs that Shiite militants had stepped up their attacks outside Sadr City.
The raid occurred in the Shaab neighborhood northwest of Sadr City. After clearing the building of weapons, Iraqi forces closed the mosque and established a police checkpoint outside.
"The size of the cache in such an obvious place says that this group was not afraid of the Iraqi security forces in their area," said Major Brian North, who leads the American military team advising the Iraqi Army's 42nd Brigade. . . .
Only Iraqi troops went inside Al Sharoufi Mosque, a one-story structure with a brick dome. Some of the arms that were discovered had been buried while others were stacked in corners.
Among the weapons seized were two dozen roadside bombs, 20 mortar rounds, six launchers for rocket-propelled grenades and 50 hand grenades.
The Iraqi troops carried the weapons to the street, where they were picked up by a United States Army explosive ordnance disposal team. Other items seized, North said, were a list of kidnapping victims and records of militia members who had been wounded.
No description of the roadside bombs within the report, but the likelihood they were EFPs of Iranian design and supply is high. You know Iranians. They're the ones who "don’t pose a serious threat to us in the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us." Explain that to Iraqis inconveniently in their path.
An odd dynamic it is: "Free Tibet" and "Screw Iraq." Never an ounce of compassion for an Iraqi, whom we should apparently abandon to the violent vise between al-Qaeda and Iran's Quds Force. It appears that all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/20/africa/20iraq.php
Ellie
It's not a new development, but still worthy of attention and continued awareness. Part of understanding the enemy.
Iraqi troops uncovered a large cache of arms in a raid on a Baghdad mosque on Monday amid signs that Shiite militants had stepped up their attacks outside Sadr City.
The raid occurred in the Shaab neighborhood northwest of Sadr City. After clearing the building of weapons, Iraqi forces closed the mosque and established a police checkpoint outside.
"The size of the cache in such an obvious place says that this group was not afraid of the Iraqi security forces in their area," said Major Brian North, who leads the American military team advising the Iraqi Army's 42nd Brigade. . . .
Only Iraqi troops went inside Al Sharoufi Mosque, a one-story structure with a brick dome. Some of the arms that were discovered had been buried while others were stacked in corners.
Among the weapons seized were two dozen roadside bombs, 20 mortar rounds, six launchers for rocket-propelled grenades and 50 hand grenades.
The Iraqi troops carried the weapons to the street, where they were picked up by a United States Army explosive ordnance disposal team. Other items seized, North said, were a list of kidnapping victims and records of militia members who had been wounded.
No description of the roadside bombs within the report, but the likelihood they were EFPs of Iranian design and supply is high. You know Iranians. They're the ones who "don’t pose a serious threat to us in the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us." Explain that to Iraqis inconveniently in their path.
An odd dynamic it is: "Free Tibet" and "Screw Iraq." Never an ounce of compassion for an Iraqi, whom we should apparently abandon to the violent vise between al-Qaeda and Iran's Quds Force. It appears that all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/20/africa/20iraq.php
Ellie