Wednesday, November 14, 2007

TARGETING AL QAEDA IN IRAQ'S NETWORK


More good news from Iraq.
TARGETING AL QAEDA IN IRAQ'S NETWORK
By Bill Roggio
FROM FRONTPAGEMAG.COM:
US and Iraqi Security Forces are maintaining the pressure on al Qaeda in Iraq's network nationwide. October netted the highest number of senior terror leaders since the surge went into full effect in mid-June. While Iraqi and US forces have degraded al Qaeda's network inside Baghdad and in the Belts, the terror group is attempting to regroup in the north and east.
The daily raids conduct by Task Force 88, the hunter-killer teams assigned to dismantle al Qaeda's network in Iraq, have resulted in significant losses for the terror network. Forty-five senior al Qaeda in Iraq operatives were killed or captured during the month of October, said Colonel Donald Bacon, the Chief of Strategy and Plans, Strategic Communications at Multinational Forces Iraq, in an interview on November 13. Among those captured or killed include:
6 emirs at the city level or higher in the AQI leadership structure, including the leader of Diyala province.
6 geographical or functional cell leaders
14 foreign terrorists facilitators.
3 car bomb cell leaders.
6 logistical support emirs.
8 media/propaganda operatives.
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