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Iraq
2 car bombs kill 11 in Baghdad market
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Iraq
(Baghdad) Patrols doubled, attacks reduced
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Iraq
Al Qaeda’s outrages swing Sunnis to US
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Iraq
Attacks in Baghdad are down by 80%. Two car bombs in Kirkuk killed 10 and wounded 65. The US and Iraqi Special Forces detained 2 Iranians in Baghdad. The Mahdi Army may be the target of Basra operations. Coalition forces captured 21 al Qaeda in Ramadi, Baghdad and Karabilah. Hillah SWAT captured 21 members of the Soldiers of Heaven.
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Iraq
Troops leaving Ramadi see fruits of their work
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Iraq
Iran’s Quds Force is “deeply enmeshed in Iraq.” Civilian deaths have dropped significantly in Iraq and Baghdad. Iraqi forces captured an al Qaeda cell leader in Muqdadiyah. The 1st Iraqi Army Division in Anbar is now under government control.
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Al Qaeda
New “Martyr” Stories From al Qaeda’s Network in Iraq
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Iraq
Iraqi President Says Al-Sadr Backs Security Plan
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Iraq
Trainers see progress in Iraq National Police
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Iraq
US Officials Worried About Iranian Involvement in Iraq
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al Qaeda in Iraq leader al-Masri capture reports incorrect
Abu Ayyub al-Masri, from a video found last year. Click to view. Iraqis back off the claim, U.S. denies he is in custody, as does al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq Last evening’s reports of the capture of al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri appear to be incorrect. Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the spokesman for the Interior Ministry, initially reported al-Masri was wounded in a gunfight, and an aide was killed while trying to enter the city of Balad. Khalaf has since pulled back from this claim, while the deputy interior minister said the information could not be…
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al Qaeda in Iraq Leader al-Masri reported wounded; aide killed
Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Reports are unconfirmed; US military is silent; aide may be the chief of al Qaeda’s security detail Iraqi and Coalition forces may have gotten a lucky break in the hunt for the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. CNN is reporting, based on a source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry, that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the successor to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been wounded in a firefight on a road somewhere between Fallujah and Samarra. Al-Masri and his security detail are said to have been entering the city of Balad. Al-Masri’s aide is identified as Abu Abdullah al-Majamiai.…
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Iraq
Police in Iraq see jump in recruits
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Iraq
The Iraqi Army killed 1 member of the Mahdi Army and detained 4 in operations in Baghdad. Sadr is in Iran, according to a Maliki aide. He left without telling his own lieutenants, many whom left to prevent being targeted in the Baghdad crackdown. The Iraqi courts convicted a Syrian intel officer of arming foreign terrorists. MG Caldwell went on the record about Iran supplying weapons to insurgents.
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Iraq
Ahl al-Bayt Brigades Posts Video Showing Abducted US Army Sergeant Ahmed Qusai Al-Taie
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Iraq
Iraqi government adviser says al-Sadr in Iran
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Iraq
Troops Sweep 3 Shiite Areas in Baghdad Push
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Iraq
France arrests 11 in Iraq recruitment probe
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The war in the shadows against Iran & Sadr
The remains of a bus destroyed in Zahedan, southeastern Iran. 18 IRGC soldiers were killed. (AP Photo). Click photo to view. A bomb killed 18 IRGC soldiers in Iran, Mahdi Army continues to be targeted While the U.S. military and intelligence proceeds cautiously on exposing Iran’s involvement in Iraq’s insurgency, and treads carefully on exposing Muqtada al-Sadr’s backing of the Shia death squads, a war is being fought in the shadows – a war which we only see glimpses of. The war has escalated enough that Muqtada al-Sadr has left Iraq for safe environs in Iran. Sadr’s aides claim he…
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Iraq
PM Maliki announces the beginning of the Baghdad operation. Sadr aides insist he is in Iraq, the military disagrees. Iraqi Special Forces captured a Mahdi Army arms merchant / financier and a cell member in Baghdad. 27 al Qaeda were detained in Ramadi, Karma, and Baghdad. Jordanian intelligence helped defeat an al Qaeda in Iraq operation that was supported from Syria and Lebanon, killing 2 and capturing 1. The CH-46 was indeed shot down.
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Muqtada al-Sadr left Iraq, in Iran
Muqtada al-Sadr. Under pressure, the leader of the Mahdi Army fled to Iran Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Iranian backed leader of the Jaish al-Mahdi, or Mahdi Army, left Iraq several weeks ago and is staying with ‘family’ inside Iran, according to an ABC News report. Military officials told ABC News Sadr is said to have left Iraq just prior to the deployment of U.S. forces, and feared being targeted by U.S. Air Force.
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Iraq
Badgers Down: Starting to Move Forward
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Iraq
The Road To Hell
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Iraq
US details methods insurgents use to shoot down copters
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Iraq
Iraq: Samarra Bombing Set Off Year Of Violence
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Iraq
Suicide Truck Bombing in Baghdad Kills 15
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Iraq
Iraq will close the Iranian and Syrian borders for 72 hours. Coalition and Iraqi forces detained an al Qaeda “military planner” and 14 terrorists throughout Iraq. US force and the Iraqi Army detained 10 insurgents in Mosul, and another 10 in Al Haswah. 934 Iraqi soldiers graduated from training in Habbaniyah, which is one of 7 training facilities.
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Iranian sniper rifles in the hands of Iraqi insurgents
The Telegraph reports a large quantity of Austrian made .50 caliber sniper rifles were seized in Baghdad The Steyr HS50 sniper rifle. Click photo to view. On the heals of a U.S. military presentation which provided evidence of Iranian made Explosively formed projectiles, mortars and other weapons being supplied to to Iraqi terrorists, as well as evidence of Iranian Qods Force operatives captured in Iraq, The Telegraph reports a significant quantity of Iranian owned sniper rifles have been seized in Iraq. Over twelve percent of Iran’s Steyr HS50 sniper rifles purchased by the “National Iranian Police Organisation” in 2005 have…
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Iraq
Policing Iraq’s Police
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Iraq
Iraqi army capture 43 terrorists
