Monthly Archive for January 2007

Silence in Iraq

MNF Iraq has now gone four days without a press release. Something’s up. Or someone’s on vacation.

WMD Used in Ramadi

WMD, chlorine gas, used in an attack by terrorists in Ramadi.

I’ve been critical of NATO’s reporting in Afghanistan before, but their latest is especially laughable.

Reuters

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) – The leader of a messianic Muslim cult was killed with 200 or more followers during a day-long onslaught by U.S. and Iraqi forces on their camp near the holy city of Najaf, Iraqi officials said on Monday.

They accused him of making a claiming to be the Mahdi, a messiah-like figure in [...]

The California Catholic Daily twists some dates to take a cheap shot at the Church and its priests.

Ohrdruf

“We came up to a 15-foot-high barbed wire fence and could see unmanned wooden shacks (barracks) behind it,” recalls Timmer. “We drove in and between the gate and the barracks were 30 dead … the blood still wet from the departing German guards” who had shot the prisoners before fleeing in trucks.

The US Air Force has a lot of neat, different reports on its site, and here’s one of them.

I’m sitting here at the ambulance base, doing my thing. Our Corps allows East Rochester residents to respond from home for a call, but out of towners like me get to sit and wait at the base.

Not that it matters, but I have no crew. No one but I volunteered to run duty this snowy [...]

Coalition Forces killed 14 terrorists, detained two suspected terrorists and destroyed a known foreign fighter safe house Saturday morning during a raid south of Baqubah.