News From Iraq

I mentioned hearing about this briefly on Fox yesterday. But I haven't seen the MSM do much about it. I find it rather disgusting the way they choose their coverage. Obviously they are too busy looking for their next intelligence secret to leak, as opposed to doing anything significant when there is good news from Iraq.

And the bastards wonder why people think they are biased.

U.S. forces killed a local leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and captured another in raids north of Baghdad on Thursday and Friday, dealing a blow to the insurgent organization's leadership in the violent city of Samarra, Iraqi police and U.S. military authorities said.

U.S. troops tracked Hamadi al-Takhi al-Nissani, al-Qaeda's "emir" in Samarra, to a safe house north of the city Friday morning, the U.S. military said in a statement. As the soldiers approached the house, Nissani fled and was killed. Two other armed insurgents in the house were also killed, according to the statement.

Nissani "was an individual who they had been working to capture and take down for some time," Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said in a telephone interview. "This is a very critical element in halting a lot of the illegal terrorist activity there."

Of course they are careful to throw in as much bad news as they can in the linked report. I'm not excerpting it. Interesting how they provide balance in that regard, but the WaPo left out the facts that the secret prisons are legal in that previous story, along with the many positives that have come from interrogations. Here's, ultimately, some more good news:

Thursday afternoon when a large force of insurgents launched simultaneous attacks on five police checkpoints and a police station, the U.S. military said in a statement. Elsewhere in the city, a force of more than 100 insurgents attacked an army headquarters with a barrage of mortar fire, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifle fire. Iraqi troops fought off all the attacks, the U.S. military said, killing 21 insurgents and capturing 43.

I think it would be extremely amusing to watch the anti-war hacks at the WaPo and the NY Times have to face down one or two of these insurgents terrorists without our military between them protecting their sorry behinds.

They'd be crying and begging for their lives and begging for a place to change their shorts within about thirty seconds. But they are sure full of stupid notions of how things should be done, or not done, from the safety of their newsrooms. From all accounts, a majority of reporters who are in Iraq don't even have the nerve to leave their hotal rooms. If you look at the byline for the WaPo article, it may just support that idea.

Special correspondents Naseer Nouri, Saad al-Izzi and K.I. Ibrahim contributed to this report.

Special correspondents being individuals other than newspaper employees who actually have the courage to see what's going on on the ground. I think if the WaPo newsroom ever went to Iraq they'd be writing stories on the horrors of trying to do their jobs through the telephone and a lack of sufficient daycare in the building.

They're hardly worthy of any respect.