Monday, June 25, 2007
Michael Yon Speaks
The X Gens' Ernie Pyle finally posts new information on Operation Arrowhead Ripper (part of the larger Operation Phantom Thunder (bad name!)). He's confirming that most of the al Qaeda in Extremis leadership got away because our brass telegraphed the punch. (That should never happen again). He ends with this hopeful note:
It would be nice to wrap up this dispatch with a neat ending, but accuracy requires this ending be jagged. While typing these last few words, there have been explosions, gunfire, and the sounds of helicopters and jets. The fighting has decreased remarkably over the last few days, but the last pockets have not been cleared, and nobody knows what awaits. So the battle is on and it’s time to get back with the soldiers as they clear Baqubah inch by inch, street by street.
It would be nice to wrap up this dispatch with a neat ending, but accuracy requires this ending be jagged. While typing these last few words, there have been explosions, gunfire, and the sounds of helicopters and jets. The fighting has decreased remarkably over the last few days, but the last pockets have not been cleared, and nobody knows what awaits. So the battle is on and it’s time to get back with the soldiers as they clear Baqubah inch by inch, street by street.
Labels: Iraq Successes
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 4:40 PM 
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The second wave did; the first wave was sunk. Mike, yes, but I'm not clear who you mean by 'they'--Our administration, leadership, frontline troops, Iraqis? Not clear.
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