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2004-10-06 Iraq-Jordan

24th Marine Expeditionary Unit & Iraqi Army punch down Hillah

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Posted by OldSpook 2004-10-06 1:43:06 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I am baffled that Hilah would be a hot point for the insurgency. I think it is one of the sites for mass graves from Sadaam's massacre in 1991.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-10-06 1:58:13 AM|| 2004-10-06 1:58:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 sh - IIUC, Hillah is basically on the frontier between the Sunni triangle and Shiite south, and has a mixed population. The Shiites were massacred in '91. I assume the Sunnis either looked on, or helped. Imagine someplace in Silesia with a mixed German-Polish population, or a mixed German-Polish-Jewish population. Or somewhere in the Sudetenland with a mixed German-Czech population.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-10-06 9:20:48 AM|| 2004-10-06 9:20:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 other reports indicate the sweep was not so much in Hillah, as in some Sunni villages in the province, which have been dominated by the insurgency. Note also, the villages are on the road from Baghdad to Fallujah.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-10-06 9:46:46 AM|| 2004-10-06 9:46:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Some of these guys are insurgents (terrs) and some are criminals who have a history of using kidnapping as a tactic of choice. Round em all up says I. Keeping the Devil Dogs active is a very good thing. Those guys think Whack-A-Mole is very good sport.

Posted by remote man 2004-10-06 3:22:23 PM|| 2004-10-06 3:22:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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