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To: LindyBill who wrote (161035)	3/17/2006 9:37:47 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793800

I posted yesterday that I thought there was nothing much to this story. TIME confirms that belief Seems more like a photo-op for the Iraqi Army. Iraqi soldiers in newly painted humvees, green and red Iraqi flags stenciled on the tailgates, had just finished searching the farm populated by a half-dozen skinny cows and a woman kneading freshly risen dough and slapping it to the walls of a mud oven Derek

To: LindyBill who wrote (161035)	3/17/2006 9:58:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793800

Not a shot was fired, or a leader nabbed, in a major offensive that failed to live up to its advance billing I have to believe that the US Army expected this result. So the real question is, where did they expect the terrorists to run to?