Posted by
Dawnsblood on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:39:09 PM
It looks like
Iraqi forces have decided to crack down on Baghdad hard. With American troops in full support of course. It might actually work after all check out the Iraqi General in charge of taking on Sadr's boys. He's Brig. Gen. Fadhil Birwari and he's Kurdish.
As the United States prepares to 'surge' more troops in Iraq, about
20,000 to 30,000 American soldiers and Marines according to most press
accounts, the Iraqi government announced over the weekend it was conducting its own operation to secure the city.
The targets of the Iraqi led operation are said to be both Sunni
insurgents and Shia militias. "Military commanders said operations
against the al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia in its Sadr City stronghold
would be left largely to a joint force made up of U.S. soldiers and the
Iraqi Special Operations Command division under Brig. Gen. Fadhil
Birwari, a Kurd," the Associated Press reported. "Soldiers in
the division are a mixture of Kurds and Arabs from both the Sunni and
Shiite sects." Over 20,000 Iraqi Army soldiers are said to be
participating in the operation.