Iraqi Security Forces: Improvement seen
Iraqi Forces recently completed several days of Operation Lions Hunt which comprised of 1500 Iraqi soldiers and police and captured 36 known or suspected terrorists in and around Mosul. The operation was planned and executed by Iraqi forces with Advisors from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, which also augmented an outer security ring as the Iraqi forces move to and from various neighborhoods in the city.
Besides the capture of the known terrorists the operation had other successes as well. The Iraqi soldiers involved were mostly Kurdish, the Police forces as well a good percentage of the population were Sunni. The operation was also aimed at improving the relationship between Iraqi police officers and Iraqi army soldiers in Mosul, as well as improving community relations in the city. On Friday, a crowd of dozens of civilians captured and bound a suspected criminal and brought him to the front gate of a local police station in western Mosul.
Mudville Gazette Has More Here, Stars & Stripes Story here, Defense Link article here.
Amazingly enough not one News Paper that I have found mentions the operation.
Filed under: Global War On Terror, Iraq, U.S. Foreign Policy
Don’t you know?
Military releases are unconfirmed and only used on whim.
AQ releases are front page lead.
Our enemies do not require a propaganda element, they have the US PRESS.
Ah, the silver lining in a dark cloud.
150,000 US troops plus 200,000 Iraqi forces trained and the country has had 3,800 civilians killed in violence since January 1 , 2006.
Iraq is smaller than Texas, too.
With reporters who cannot safely leave the Green Zone without military escorts, it is hard to imagine that there is any good news at all to be found.
Perhaps today I am too cynical. OR perhaps it is just enough.