Iraqi hostage rescue 'has begun': TV report

A rescue effort to free about 150 Shiite Iraqi hostages, including women and children, has begun, an Arab TV news station is reporting.

Al-Arabiya was citing an Iraqi security official as its source. The station had no further details.

Sunni militants are holding the hostages in the town of Madain near Baghdad.

The militants are demanding that all Shiites leave the town, which is 24 kilometres southeast of Baghdad's capital.

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Assuming there is anything to the report of course. Any attempt to implement a forceful solution to this has the potential to become a bloodbath, inspiring more violence between the rival factions.

that this will go well?

The heavy handed approach is always the most dangerous and so far our track record sucks.

That is usually the case in these situations. I can think of the two Russian situations, for example.

The whole story sounds false, like it's an attempt to stage a fake operation to boost the Iraqi forces cred.

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It's inevitable.

LOL! Yeah I believe this... :sarcasm:

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Earlier, officials said peaceful efforts to secure the release of the hostages, seized by guerrillas with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s on Friday, had failed.

:eyes:

From Reuters:

"The town is now under the control of Iraqi and multinational forces. ... They are raiding areas where it is suspected that hostages may be," Kassim Daoud, interim minister of state for national security, told Dubai-based al Arabiya TV.

Multinational forces (in addition to Iraqi)? WTF?


This new Iraqi gov't is quick off-the-bat with the pro-U.S. propaganda.

We will never know what really happened here.

Sunni Militants Take 100 Shiites Hostage
By ALEXANDRA ZAVIS

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi security forces surrounded a central Iraqi village Sunday after Sunni militants took as many as 100 Shiite Muslims hostage and threatened to kill the captives if other Shiites did not leave town. The explosive sectarian standoff played out, as 17 people - including an American soldier - were killed in insurgent attacks elsewhere in Iraq.

Late Saturday, insurgents fired mortar rounds at a U.S. Marine base near Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, the military said, adding that there were no American casualties. Residents said dozens of armed fighters moved through the city after dark. They reported loud explosions when the militants tried to force their way into Camp Blue Diamond and said there were casualties among the attackers.

In the southeast, 11 Iraqi detainees angry at their treatment by American jailers broke out of Camp Bucca, the American military's largest detention center, by cutting through a fence. Ten were recaptured, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said.
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The Sunni-Shiite conflict exploded Thursday in Madain, 15 miles southeast of Baghdad, when Sunni militants attacked the town mosque with explosives. National Security Minister Qassem Dawoud said government security forces had the town surrounded and were conducting raids to root out the hostage-takers. He said U.S.-led forces were backing the operation, but the U.S. military said it had no information on the matter.
Haitham Husseini, a spokesman for the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the country's largest Shiite group, said the Madain mosque had been badly damaged in the Thursday attack.
Husseini said about 100 masked militants drove through Madain, capturing Shiite youngsters and old men. He and government officials said between 35 to 100 people were taken hostage.




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Looks like a Civil War to me.

How about a fix what we fucked up strategy cuz the victory thing doesn't seem to be a workin...Beeatch.

By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi security forces raided a village in central Iraq on Sunday where Sunni militants were holding dozens of Shiite Muslims hostage and threatening to kill them unless all Shiites left the area, an Iraqi official said.

The security forces, which had surrounded Madain village, began raiding it late Saturday to root out hostage-takers, National Security Minister Qassim Dawoud said. Early Sunday, Iraqi forces freed about 15 Shiite families, said Haidar Khayon, an official at the Defense Ministry in Baghdad. He said five hostage-takers were captured in a skirmish with light gunfire, but no casualties were reported.

Security forces continued to comb through the village of about 1,000 people, which is located 15 miles southeast of Baghdad, Khayon said.

Other retaliatory kidnappings by Sunni and Shiite groups have occurred in the violent area, but the abductions appeared to be the first attempt by militants since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq to forcibly evacuate a village or town along sectarian lines...

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