NYT/AP: New Baghdad Security Plan Is Underway, U.S. Military Says

New Baghdad Security Plan Is Underway, U.S. Military Says
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 7, 2007
Filed at 8:02 a.m. ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The long-awaited Baghdad security operation has begun, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Wednesday.

The Iraqi general who is leading the security drive took over the operation headquarters on Monday, but there had been no announcement until Wednesday that the sweep, the third attempt to crush violence in nine months, was under way.

"It is ongoing as we speak," U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell said. "The implementation of the prime minister's plan has already begun and will be fully implemented at a later date, having all the parts and pieces that he wants.

"But portions are already being put in place, and we'll continue to put more into place as the forces arrive and the assets become available."

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Iraq-Security-Operation.html

new Bush plan!!!!!!


NO body knows------

Nelson of FL made that point yesterday!

it's _his_ plan they're working from apparently...

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2007/02/07/pageone/scan/index.html

The picture on the top of the fold is a full color explanation of why our Iraq War Crime is a complete failure and why we need to get out now.

A devastated woman is being consoled by her husband in their living room. Both of them are on the floor surrounded by a squad of full battle gear storm troopers, guns pointed at them. This is the "surge". This is what fascism looks like. This is what is being done in our name. The "crackdown" in baghdad is invading home after home; the crackdown is terrorism backed by the full might of an imperial state.

i've seen so much worse from iraq. he's alive, she's alive. they're afraid.

they're not blown into pieces on a street running with blood.

and that was his mom i think.

Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070207/ts_afp/iraq_12

BAGHDAD (AP) — Baghdad's streets were electric with tension Wednesday as U.S. officials confirmed the new security operation was underway. U.S. armor rushed through streets, and Iraqi armored personnel carriers guarded bridges and major intersections.
New coils of barbed-wire and blast barriers marked checkpoints that caused traffic bottlenecks. U.S. Apache helicopters whipped the air over parts of the capital where they hadn't been seen before.

But gunfire still rang out across the city, and some residents said they doubted life would get better. "Nothing will work, it's too late," said Hashem al-Moussawi, a resident of the Sadr City Shiite enclave who was badly wounded in a bombing in December.

Underlining the dangers, a U.S. Marine transport helicopter crashed northwest of Baghdad, killing all seven on board — the fifth American aircraft lost in Iraq in just over two weeks. A military statement did not give a cause for the crash, but a senior U.S. defense official in Washington said the CH-46 Sea Knight did not appear to have been hit by hostile fire. An Iraqi air force officer, however, said the chopper was downed by an anti-aircraft missile. An al-Qaeda-linked Sunni group claimed in a Web statement that it was responsible.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-02-07-iraq-security_x.htm

Quite an article. It gives new meaning to the word 'Clusterfuck'

hearts and minds.

That Iraq-Nam is really the 51st state

if Bush lucks out and this WORKS. It will be HELLO IRAN..................

There is nothing to work....or not work. It's a clusterfuck.

There is no mission. There is no plan.

It is a hoax, just like everything else this administration orchestrates.

Checkpoints blocking half the lanes of traffic. Iraqi army convoys firing into the air over the heads of motorists. A private security company coming under fire and exploding GREEN & WHITE smoke bombs so they could make their getaway.

Speeding away, they lean out their windows and throw WATER BOTTLES at passing motorists so they get out of the way. :rofl:

Four guards from a TV station were killed by SECURITY PERSONNEL escorting visitors to the Justice Ministry fercrissake!.

The TV official can't speak on the record because he's not authorized to talk to the media. (I thought TV people WERE the media.

UN-believable!

I thought it was still under curfew.