BAGHDAD — A press conference concerning the progress of security in Diyala, Iraq was held via videoconference at the Combined Press Information Center in the International Zone Friday.
Army Col. David W. Sutherland, commander of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, and Maj. Gen. Shakir Halail Husain, 5th Iraqi Division commander, discussed increased enemy activity due to escalated Coalition and Iraqi security forces operations and the continuing effort to fight terrorism.
“We have seen an increase on attacks against Coalition and Iraqi security forces in the past several months,” Sutherland said. “On the other hand, we have also seen a drop in the overall sectarian violence in the [Diyala] province.”
The deployment of the Strykers from the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division of Fort Louis, Wash., will support our current counterinsurgency strategy and improvements will be made as necessary, said Sutherland.
“They will be used to build upon recent successes in the area of Buhriz, Tahrir, Mufrek and in the Baqubah area,” he said.
To combat terrorism, Coalition and Iraqi troops rely on citizens of the Diyala province who are beginning to aid the forces in establishing security.
“The increase in violence and attacks cannot happen without the support of the people,” said Sutherland. “We’re actually seeing flyers distributed by the people telling the terrorists to leave.”
In other areas, Iraqi civilians are also taking on terrorists.
“The tribal members near Muqdadiyah are actually fighting the al-Qaida. They’re sick, tired and disgusted by these individuals,” said Sutherland.
As operations continue, Coalition and Iraqi security forces leadership remain optimistic in the fight against terrorism.
“The morale of the people is high now, and the citizens [of Diyala province] are now providing us with information about terrorists,” said Husain. “We fight terrorism wherever it is.”
We are seizing every opportunity we can, and there will be no missed delays. We will secure the Diyala province and restore hope to its people, said Sutherland.
(By Spc. Carl N. Hudson, Combined Press Information Center)
Edward Teach said this in post #30 :
Nope you're wrong.
Well if that's you're argument, what can I say? What about the war profiteering? Nasty isn't it? Did you know that Halliburton just moved their HQ to Dubai? Nice.
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All volunteer force!!!! For centuries world leaders send their folks into battle. Lives are lost, it's part of fighting for your country.
Is that what the American troops are doing in the Middle East, in Iraq, thousands of miles from home soil, fighting for America? Maybe they're fighting for some foggy, Neocon ideas, losing their lives because of some ludicrous agenda that's part of the Project for the New American Century?
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Every soldier knows that one day they may have to make the ultimate sacrafice. Most military folks know this and serve willingly.
Yes but it would be nice if the troops and the country were not lied to to get them to support the attack of a country that did not attack America. Bush used the 9/11 attack, fear and patriotism to get you to back his war of aggression against Iraq. Why? Clearly you don't care. Most likely you don't like to even think about it above and beyond the websites you read and quote like the one above -
"Operation Iraqi Freedom - Official Website of Multi-National Force - Iraq"?
btw - You do know that it was the Saudi dictatorship that has been funding and spreading radical Muslim fundamentalism around the Muslim world? Now here's a question: if Bush really wanted to spread "freedom" why didn't he just ask his friends and business associates in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Royal family, to make some real democratic reforms in the Middle East? Wouldn't that have been slightly easier than going to war? I doubt you'll even give this a moment's thought.
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We do control Iraq.
Of course you do. And the Iraqis love you. And they trust you. And they believe that America is spending billions of dollars a month, and losing thousands of soldiers because they want to bring freedom to a bunch of Arabs. Your naivety is touching. If only the Iraqis were as ill informed and unaware.
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And where did you find this information about many Iraqis supporting attacks on US Troops. Give me a source.
Since the end of the war in Iraq, thousands of civilians have died in violence on the streets. Support for the coalition forces based in Iraq is low - with 82% expressing a lack of confidence in them and 69% thinking they had made the security situation worse.
You mean those same militias that are killing Iraqi's in cold blood. Something that the Coalition is NOT doing. I think you got that backwards bud.
Of course the US is not killing Iraqis, we just like to tickle them into submission.
Shia and Sunni both have militias and armed groups who protect them because the security is so bad and they have no one else to turn to. Learn something about Iraq please before you make statements like "militias are killing Iraqis" because it means nothing - there is not one militia or one group of Iraqis. Try to look beyond your b&w world.
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All you have to do is look it up yourself. Go to the some of the sites I've posted. It's so easy a caveman could do it. All you got to do is READ!!! This doesn't even deserve a response. [/B]
You posted pure military propaganda. It doesn't even pretend to be anything else. At least post something from a right-wing media outlet like Fox, if you want to post anything with any credibility (a joke btw).
The thing is Edward wht you, Bush and the whole of the right are missing is this. YOu sendf in 20,000+ troops to Bgahdad the militants either vanish or wind down operations and pick them up in another part of Iraq say Anbar, so in a year or two when the durge has been "succesful" you move to Anbar to quell the violence in that part of the city so the militants either go back to Iraq to raise hell there or go to anopther part of the country and raise hell there and it becomes cycle. It's classic military cat and mouse tactics and the mouse right now is playing the cat for a fool.
That's 20,000+ on top of the 130,000+ that's already in Iraq. And let's just see how it goes once they are all in place.
H@ts,
Yeah propaganda, that's fine and you know what it works and the other side has been playing that tactic also.
By the way your poll from BBC/ABS is contrary to the other poll that canvased Iraq. What is the sample size of the BBC/ABC poll by the way. I know the sample size of the other poll (sorry I don't remember what group conducted it) was something over 5000. I'll see if I can find it.
Yes but the half that are there and the rest that are going know there mission and thier location Baghdad stamp out insurgents. That won't change only thing that will as time goes by is location as this game of cat and mouse is played out.
03-21-2007 10:25 PM
