February 6, 2008 – 7:15 pm
I wonder why I can’t find this story in the Credentialed Media? Top Iraqi Police officials and Coalition military police gathered at the Camp Fiji training facility Feb. 2 to witness 493 new Iraqi Police officers graduate and perform a demonstration. “This increase in police force will better the peace for the citizens,” said Capt. […]
February 5, 2008 – 7:18 pm
Via Operation Iraqi Freedom, Pfc. April Campbell BAYRK – Making a positive impact, no matter how little, on the lives of Iraqis is a big part of current operations by Coalition forces in the Fahama region. Soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division’s 1st Platoon, Company D, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade […]
January 17, 2008 – 8:06 am
Obviously, one has to take any report that includes the UN with a large grain of salt, but, as the saying goes, a broken clock is right twice a day. Add in the IMF, and this could be some good news for Iraq Iraq faces a period of economic growth and political progress, according to […]
January 16, 2008 – 1:26 pm
Liberals are surely upset by this type of news. They would prefer to talk to them, instead Coalition forces teamed up with Iraqi Army Soldiers Jan. 10, to conduct an operation focused on securing an area south of Baghdad known as Chaka Four Region. Troops from Company C, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, and the […]
January 10, 2008 – 8:53 am
I gotta say, the US Air Force are really a generous bunch of folks U.S. warplanes dropped 40,000 pounds of bombs on Thursday in a sudden and massive strike on more than 40 al Qaeda targets clustered in date palm groves on Baghdad’s southern outskirts, the military said. The U.S. Air Force sent two B-1 […]
January 5, 2008 – 6:50 pm
I like what Insty said about this story: Now, if he’d blamed the United States, it’d be front-paged all over. . . . BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq’s culture of corruption stems from the actions of the international community and the controversial UN oil-for-food scheme, the deputy prime minister Barham Saleh said on Thursday. Speaking at […]
December 15, 2007 – 7:35 am
Not going to find this in the MSM Using information provided by members of a Concerned Local Citizens group, Soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, killed two insurgents, seized a weapons cache and destroyed an enemy stronghold during a nighttime air assault in Al Bawi, a small village outside of Salman Pak, […]
December 11, 2007 – 7:52 am
It is getting really tough to find stories about Iraq in the MSM as of late. Apparently, they cannot find enough bad news, and they have chilled out on the good news, apparently not wanting to further harm their need for everyone to believe that Vietraq is lost. But, hey, if they actually did want […]
December 7, 2007 – 1:26 pm
Does anyone else have the sneaky suspision that the NY Times big shots, along with most of their staff, are spending an abnormal amount of time lately at cocktail parties and martini lunches because of all the good news coming out of Iraq? I bet their dentists are going to be happy with all the […]
December 5, 2007 – 2:38 pm
Such is the New York Times headline, which, surprisingly, makes some good points The reduced violence in Iraq in recent months stems from three significant developments, but the clock is running on all of them, Iraqi officials and analysts warn. “It’s more a cease-fire than a peace,†said Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, a Kurd, […]
