Operation Scorpion
Cross-posted from Right on the Right:
In the wake of success with Operation Swarmer, our military, jointly with the Iraqi Military, has launched a new offensive in Northern Iraq. Operation Scorpion is a mission designed to search several villages in Northern Iraq, and capture insurgents. This mission, like Operation Swarmer, will be a multinational operation.
OFFICIALS PROVIDE DETAILS OF RECENT IRAQ OPERATIONS
WASHINGTON, March 24, 2006 – Multinational Force Iraq officials have provided details of recent operations conducted by U.S. and Iraqi forces, including today’s early morning launch of Operation Scorpion.
Operation Scorpion, which began at 4 a.m., involves searching five villages in and around the Kirkuk area for suspected terrorists, officials said. Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division, supported by the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, are conducting the joint operation.
The Department of Defense is also providing detailed information of what the operation entails. Normally I wouldn’t be one to put up information about our operations, but the DoD obviously doesn’t mind this info being released. Our soldiers are going to be attempting a sweep of Northern Iraq.
Iraqi soldiers from the 2nd Brigade’s 1st and 5th battalions are systematically moving through the villages, searching for selected targets based on Iraqi-generated intelligence, officials said. On the U.S. side, the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, is supporting operations at each of the five villages. Officials said this is the second major operation developed and conducted by the Iraqi 2nd Brigade in the past two months.
This type of operation, between both Iraqis and the US Military is an important step forward in Iraq. This is showing us that the Iraqis can run their own operations, and while they need US assistance now, they are making many positive improvements. Also, our troops have captured more caches of weapons.
In other operations, coalition forces and the Iraqi army netted more significant finds of weapons and munitions, including four SA-14 surface-to-air missiles north of Balad on the Jabouri Peninsula, an upscale section of Duluiyah. U.S. and Iraqi troops swept the peninsula for five days to disrupt insurgent activities and collect stores of explosives, weapons and ammunition insurgents used to attack coalition forces, Iraqi security forces and Iraqi citizens.
I wonder if all this positive information will continue being ignored by the media. We’re winning, and operations are continuing successfully. Good luck to the Iraqis and our boys on the ground in Operation Scorpion.
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Posted by Gribbit on March 25, 2006 4:40 pm
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