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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (9211)5/11/2005 12:31:28 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Marines On the Attack

Power Line

As you've probably seen, around 1,000 Marines have attacked terrorists in a lawless desert region adjoining Iraq's border with Syria. In addition to the AP account linked above, this story by James Janega of the Chicago Tribune, who is embedded with the Marines, is worth reading.

Two salient points emerge: First, the Marines have previously pushed the terrorists out of Fallujah and other havens. The surviving terrorists have been reduced to gathering in the desert, near their Syrian allies--a redoubt in which the Marines are now relentlessly killing them. The "insurgency's" losing streak continues.

Second, the terrorists are said to show signs of having been trained by a foreign power. Syria, maybe?

UPDATE: The Belmont Club and Bill Roggio have much more. Marine Colonel Bob Chase says:

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When we get there, they are deciding to fight, and as such they are dying... As marines we'd rather engage them that way than through an I.E.D... The enemy honestly felt that they had a sense of security up there... It had been a safe haven, and a lot of folks up there were former Baathists. Now it is no longer a safe haven, and it will never be a safe haven again... We are going to continue this for a number of days... The objective is to totally disrupt the safe havens and rat lines that have allowed them to bring those materials across the border. This had been a very secure area for the insurgents.
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powerlineblog.com

news.yahoo.com

chicagotribune.com

belmontclub.blogspot.com

billroggio.com
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