Overall, the United States and its partners have disrupted at least ten serious al-Qaida terrorist plots since September 11--including three al-Qaida plots to attack inside the United States. We have stopped at least five more al-Qaida efforts to case targets in the United States or infiltrate operatives into our country. 10 Plots 1. The West Coast Airliner Plot: In mid-2002 the U.S. disrupted a plot to attack targets on the West Coast of the United States using hijacked airplanes. T...
U.S. NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Nov. 29, 2005 – Leaders at the U.S. detention facility for enemy combatants here wonder why media outlets continue to use outdated images of defunct facilities to accompany news reports about the base. Media stories about the detention facility or the men held here routinely are accompanied by photographs or video footage shot at Camp X-Ray, a temporary facility hastily erected to deal with enemy combatants captured in the first days of operations i...
The accidental outcomes of the Iraq War. I am a cop (25 years worth) and instructor at the police academy in Gainesville Florida. I am also an old 3rd Infantry Soldier. “Rock of the Marne” to you! And in my position I get a chance to meet literally hundreds of police recruits. Starting several months ago and I guess even a few months before that and ever since I have noticed some interesting things happening in my police recruit classes. But recently I had a very interesting meeting with ...
Nov. 23, 2005 – Iraqi army troops from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, captured three insurgents Nov. 22 in Baghdad, military officials reported. Officials said the military-aged suspects were apprehended after they threw a CD containing sniper video footage from their vehicle at a traffic-control point and tried to turn around and get away. Iraqi troops questioned the three men, who admitted attacking coalition forces in Baghdad, Fallujah and Najaf, officials sai...
Nov. 21, 2005 – Iraqi police and U. S. soldiers responded to help five Iraqi children injured in a Nov. 20 roadside bomb explosion in eastern Baghdad, military officials reported. Officials said the bomb most likely was targeting an Iraqi police patrol, but missed the target and detonated near a vehicle filled with children. Police and U. S. soldiers from 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, secured the site and took the wounded children to a local hospital for treatment. In other news, Ira...
Nov. 21, 2005 – Acting on tips from local residents, Iraqi soldiers confiscated a large number of terrorist weapons and bomb-making materials Nov. 20 in western Baghdad, military officials reported. Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, discovered the weapons cache during a follow-up search of an area where an improvised explosive device was discovered and destroyed last week. A small contingent of U. S. soldiers from D Company, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regi...
Attack on Cruise Liner: Piracy or Terror? (CNSNews.com) - Gunmen who attacked a luxury cruise liner off the east coast of Africa may have been terrorists targeting Americans and other Westerners rather than pirates, the Australian government said Monday.An armed gang on two speedboats fired machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade at the Seabourn Spirit as the Bahamas-registered ship sailed about 100 miles off the Somali coast in the early hours of Saturday morning.More than 300 passenger...
Steel Curtain Kills at Least 17 Terrorists American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2005 – U. S Marines in Iraq today confirmed 17 terrorists killed since Operation Steel Curtain began Nov. 5. Coalition officials suspect, but haven't been able to confirm, many more killed. Officials also reported coalition air strikes hit 10 targets today. Also, terrorists reportedly fired on Iraqi soldiers and U. S. Marines from mosques in two separate incidents today. In both cases, Ir...
Operation Steel Curtain Moves Into Husaybah American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2005 – About 1,000 Iraqi soldiers and 2,500 U. S. Marines, sailors and soldiers report encountering sporadic resistance today - mostly small-arms fire and homemade bombs - as they have moved through the city of Husaybah, Iraq, near the Syrian border, officials said. The action is part of Operation Steel Curtain, which began today to restore security and destroy the al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist...
I posted this article when this happened: http://shadowwar.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=88555 Link Since then little has been said about it in the MSM. Now I have been listening to the airwaves and internet for anything, then I got this in my e-mail today. Illinois State Police Office of Counter-Terrorism Statewide Terrorism Intelligence Center (STIC) Information Alert Suicide Bombers on Campus The information contained in this Alert is being provided due to the recent suicide bo...
Explosion reveals bomb cell BAGHDAD – Troops from the 1st Battalion, 4th Iraqi Public Order Brigade and Coalition forces detained 19 suspected terrorists after investigating an explosion heard from a roadside bomb perimeter they were manning Oct. 27 in the Ad Dawrah district . The explosion was heard coming from a house about 200 meters away from the troop’s location. The suspects were found inside the domicile surrounded with an assortment of bomb-making materials. Bomb technicia...
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition troops detained three suspected terrorists and uncovered two improvised explosive devices before they could be detonated during combat operations Oct. 22 and 23. Iraqi Police officers discovered one of the IEDs in Al Bayaa. It consisted of a 120mm shell with TNT and small bottles of gas with nails. A patrol of U.S. Soldiers found the other IED on a road southest of Baghdad. It was made of two 155mm rounds in a fuel can. Explosive ordnance ...
U. S. Forces Stop Potential IED Attacks in Afghanistan American Forces Press Service Oct. 28, 2005 – U. S. soldiers with 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, killed one enemy and detained two others who were to trying to plant roadside bombs today in the Waza Khwa district of Afghanistan's Paktika province, military officials reported. The soldiers were patrolling from a forward operating base toward the Terwa Afghan border police site when they came across four individu...
Military Families 'Disgusted' by Sheehan By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor October 28, 2005 (CNSNews.com) - A number of Gold Star military families say they are "thoroughly disgusted with Cindy Sheehan and her publicity stunts." Sheehan was arrested outside the White House this week, during a protest to mark the death of the 2000th soldier in Iraq. Sheehan and other anti-war protesters staged a "die-in," lying head to toe on the sidewalk. (See related story) Sheehan's shena...
ASADABAD, Afghanistan — To the U.S. Marine Corps, he’s known as Lance Cpl. John McClellan of Company E’s combined anti-armor team, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. To Marine grunts in eastern Afghanistan, McClellan is known as “Bullet Sponge” or “Lucky.” That’s because McClellan was shot twice in the same arm in the span of a week. Earlier this month, the 19-year-old from Columbia, Mo., was shot in the right arm during two separate firefights in Kunar provin...