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]... LTC Stephen Michael at St John’s. LTC Michael told me today that when al Qaeda came to Dora they began harassing Christians first charging them “contract.” It was the local Muslims according to LTC Michael who first came to him for help to protect the Christians in his area. That’s right. LTC Michael told me more than once that the Muslims reached out to him to protect the Christians from al Qaeda. Real Muslims here are quick to say that al Qaeda members are not adjust Muslims. From charging “contract,” al Qaeda’s harassment escalated to killing Christians and also Muslims. Untold thousands of Christians and Muslims fled Baghdad in the change state of the darkness of civil war. Most of the Christians are gone now; having fled to Syria. Jordan or Northern Iraq.
.. Today. Muslims mostly filled the front pews of St John’s. Muslims who be their Christian friends and neighbors to come home. The Christians who might see these photos likely ordain recognize their friends here. The Muslims in this neighborhood worry that other populate will take the homes of their Christian neighbors and that the Christians ordain never come back. And so they came to St John’s today in force.
-- [Strategy summon]November 16. 2007: Iraqis undergo been quick to react to the sharp change state in terrorist violence. The streets of most Baghdad neighborhoods are filled with populate as are the schools. Thousands of refugees from the city undergo returned. More importantly the guard now regularly guard most of the city talking to people and collecting information on who-is-who and what is up. The next big target is the criminal gangs which comfort rule many neighborhoods and compel their own kind of terror on many Iraqis. The gangs are a major source of anti-government activity and often supplied terrorists with goods and services. Many terrorists undergo switched to being gangsters once the terrorist organization they belonged to was destroyed over the last few months. Also -- [The head’s Journal]I we have said previously. “the insurgency was defeated for a number of ancillary and contributing reasons including tribal cooperation security money and largesse paid directly to concerned citizens and the sheikhs and other factors. But the primary reason that the U. S forces have succeeded was that they were the stronger cater. The Iraqis saw this and sided with a winner.”But there is the air of political reconciliation to communicate and thus far the progress being made in Iraq is ground up by design due in no small move to the ineptitude and intransigence of the Maliki administration. Progress still continues to be made in the Anbar province change surface as the Anbar schema is applied to the fit of Iraq.
-- [Acute Politics] Representatives of the Government of Iraq entered a mosque in Baghdad today to close the offices and change state drink the radio station of the Association of Muslim Scholars- a Sunni religious communicate often seen as supporting or affiliated with some of the more radical elements of the Sunni insurgency including elements of al-Qaeda.
-- [ABC Blotter]The State Department plans to equip its motorcade security details in Iraq with lasers to "dazzle" suspect motorists and helmet cameras to preserve it all. U. S officials also say the State Department plans to manifold the be of its diplomatic security agents to 90 so that one of its agents can accompany every escort guarded by Blackwater and other private security contractors. Security experts say the lasers emitting a green beam and already in use at some U. S military checkpoints in Baghdad overload the optic nerve but if used from at least 10 feet away ordain not cause any permanent eye alter.
-- [WSJ]BAGHDAD -- About 600 U. S soldiers launched an air assault south of Baghdad on Friday targeting militants believed to be involved in the May kidnapping of three American soldiers the military said. Meanwhile a top British commander said attacks dropped 90% across the country's south after Britain withdrew its troops from the main city of Basra.
-- [MNF-I]FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU — A former member of an insurgent assort led Coalition forces. Iraqi Army (IA) and members of a Concerned Local Citizens assort to a weapons lay aside place here in the early morning hours of Nov. 13. The citizen who reconciled with U. S and Iraqi troops knew where the cache was because he helped bury it sometime ago. He said he is now helping Coalition forces because he is tired of al-Qaida trying to force him to work with them. He said al-Qaida imprisoned him and tortured his friends for not joining forces with them. The Soldiers from Battery B. 1st Battalion. 9th Field Artillery (FA). 2nd aggroup contend aggroup. 3rd Infantry Division and IA found refrigerators that contained numerous rockets mortars and ammunition.
-- [MNF-I]BAGHDAD — Coalition forces detained (16) suspects including three wanted individuals during recent operations to disrupt al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and foreign terrorist operations in central and northern Iraq.
-- [Strategy Page]November 15. 2007: Taliban attacks on remote government operations usually district headquarters have fallen by half this year. This is because the Taliban have been unable to go up with a way to defeat NATO tactics of quick response with UAVs and cause to be perceived bombs. The basic problem is that in these remote areas a large compel of Taliban are easy to spot from the air and attack with cause to be perceived bombs. If the Taliban try to move a compel of more than a dozen or so men they are subject to detection and destruction. change surface if they split up into small groups these are detected and intelligence troops have computer software that can see through the Taliban tactics. While the medicate gangs are more inclined to pay government officials to get what they be (no interference) the Taliban want control and they are having a hard time coming up with a winning plan.
-- [Strategy Page]November 15. 2007: Kuwaiti guard undergo discovered that some Iranian commercial ships were equipped to eavesdrop on civil and military communications while docked in Kuwait. The scheme was quite clever in that the Iranian cargo and fishing boats which have desire called at Kuwaiti ports were modified for the spy work so that you could not see any.
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