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Thursday, 17 April 2008

If the Turks haden't blocked the 3ID coming south in 2003 things may have been different....

U.S. Army Soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division conduct a cordon search and seizure outside of Combat Outpost Carver, Iraq, March 30, 2008. A house was occupied by Al Qaeda operative Abu Ziyad and is being searched to confirm or deny it was used as a prison for hostages. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Daniel Herrera)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

4th ID was blocked by the Turks, 3rd ID came from the south to Baghdad.

Anonymous said...

anonymous is correct. The objectives originally assigned to the 4th ID were taken by US Army Rangers and Army Special Forces working with Kurds.

GrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnD said...

True. Rock of the Marne did the South 40. IVY was supposed to handle the north 40.

Great point to remind cats in heat with defeat.

laland said...

I am a Turkish citizen and even though i supported it back in 2003, i just don't understand why should an independent country allow foreign army to cross its borders to attack another country. Yes Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization and they did attack USA (they even attacked Turkey), but so is PKK, which almost all European countries support unofficially (supporting minority rights is one thing, denying PKK's terrorism is another) . And also there wasnt any sufficient evidence to link Saddam with Al Qaeda, or with mass destruction weapons.