Maliki orders security forces to crush foes

by nukegingrich | February 20, 2007 at 11:52 pm

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News from Iraq:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki told his security forces on Tuesday to show no mercy toward insurgents in a security crackdown in Baghdad.

Iraqiya state television showed Maliki, a Shi'ite Islamist leader, talking to an Iraqi soldier near an armored vehicle in central Baghdad. The soldier pointed to an area from where he said insurgents had been firing at security forces.

"Don't just fire back, crush the place where the fire came from," Maliki replied. "Don't treat them with leniency. This is an armored vehicle here, use it."

Insurgents have shown no mercy toward Iraqi civilians. Seventeen dead in a suicide bombing yesterday....so many over the months that it's impossible to keep track.

Al-Anbar province continues to be a brutal slug. Blogger/reporter Bill Roggio
reports that there may be a break between the Sunni insurgency and
al-Qaeda-in-Iraq as Mishan al-Jououri has gone on al-Zawraa television
in a "stunning turnaround" to denounce al-Qaeda, blaming them directly
for the inter-sectarian violence across the country.

Finally, I came across a mil-blog written by a guy named "Teflon Don", from al-Anbar, answering a question from the home folks, "What are the people like?" His post is entitled "Faces in the crowd".

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