BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An influential Sunni association called for an end to a weeklong counterinsurgency offensive in Baghdad, saying it overwhelmingly targets members of their religious minority and has led to the detention of hundreds of people. Eight people died from insurgent attacks around the country, bringing to at least 830 the number killed since the Shiite-led government took office April 28 -- an average of 23 deaths a day, not counting rebels.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq announced plans Thursday to deploy 40,000 police and soldiers in the capital and ring the city with hundreds of checkpoints "like a bracelet" in the largest show of Iraqi force since the fall of Saddam Hussein. In a reminder of the difficulty Iraqi security forces face in stopping insurgent attacks, violence claimed at least 15 lives Thursday in Baghdad including a car bomb that exploded near a police patrol, killing five people and wounding 17.
LATIFIYAH, Iraq Iraqi soldiers took the lead Saturday in a sweep with U.S. forces of farmsteads and fields in an area south of Baghdad known for its deadly insurgent attacks and called the Triangle of Death. The Iraqis stood up well in blistering heat that neared 110 degrees, but a commander balked at sending his men into a particularly dangerous area, forcing the U.S. soldiers to conduct follow-up missions. The hundreds-strong joint force, backed by American air power, rounded up at least 108 Iraqis suspected of involvement in the brutal campaign of suicide attacks designed to topple the Shiite- led government.
A Ferrum man who has previously been found guilty of making moonshine was convicted in federal court Thursday for lying about how long he operated his distillery. Rodney Lee James, 42, was indicted as part of a federal moonshine investigation known as Operation Lightning Strike.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The government said Thursday a security cordon of 40,000 Iraqi soldiers and police will ring Baghdad starting next week in what it dubbed Operation Lightning, aimed at halting a spree of insurgent violence that has killed more than 620 people this month. The interior minister, meanwhile, said his office believes militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was wounded, while an Internet statement claimed that Iraq's most feared terrorist group had appointed a deputy to fill in for the Jordanian.
The top U.S. commander in Baghdad said yesterday that a two- month counterinsurgency sweep has "mostly eliminated" the enemy's ability to "conduct sustained high-intensity operations" around the Iraqi capital. The assessment from Maj. Gen. William Webster Jr., who commands the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, comes after a joint Iraqi-U.S. campaign, "Operation Lightning." It involved more than 500 raids and 2,500 checkpoints that captured more than 1,700 suspected insurgents.
It was the distillery secreted in the barn at Shelton Davis' gated compound that burned Vance Jackson up. As a longtime alcohol law enforcement officer here, Jackson has spent years shivering in the brambles, sniffing for the tang of mash from stills hidden in rusted-out tobacco barns. He regularly crisscrossed the triangle where Johnston, Harnett, and Sampson counties meet here to challenge the claim of Virginia's Franklin County to the title of "Moonshine Capital of the World."But Davis' operation was no black pot still hidden in the hedgerows. When Jackson and other law enforcement officers raided Davis' property in 1996, they busted one of the area's biggest illegal liquor operations, Jackson said. When Davis was charged along with his brothers-in-law, Douglas and Michael Tart, Jack...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government announced Monday that it has detained nearly 900 suspected militants and terrorists, and set up more than 800 checkpoints in a two-week sweep that appears to have blunted attacks in the capital. Also, a list obtained Monday shows that Saddam Hussein will be charged with several war crimes when he goes on trial, probably within the next two months. Iraqi officials believe offensives such as Operation Lightning, along with the deposed dictator's trial, will help deflate the insurgency being waged by Saddam loyalists and Islamic terrorists.
JERUSALEM - With its lightning operation in Gaza - nearly all Jewish settlers evacuated in just 55 hours - Israel has shown the world it can dismantle such enclaves with relative ease, despite the settlers' tears, anguish and occasional violence. Having set this precedent, Israel will likely come under increasingly intense pressure to do the same in the West Bank - though officials insist it could be years before settlements there even come up for discussion.
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