A Little Success’ll Do Wonders
…for the soul. Bad guys killed and captured, IED material and weapons snagged and three hostages rescued. All in a day’s work.
Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5’s, 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, and soldiers from 2nd and 4th Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division, rescued three Iraqi hostages in an intelligence-driven operation July 23.
The three were personal assistants and bodyguards to Dr. Rafa Hayid Chiad Al-Isaw, an Iraqi government official in Baghdad.
…The three were held captive by al-Qaeda insurgents in a spiderhole complex for 27 days. The hostages were beaten with electrical cords, bitten and threatened with their lives at gunpoint by their captors. They were treated by Coalition Forces medical personnel.
The three were taken hostage by al-Qaeda insurgents west of Zaidon, a rural area south of Fallujah. They were rescued near Fuhaylat, southwest of Fallujah.
Also recovered nearby was a significant weapons cache, including a fully-assembled suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device. Marines also recovered IEDs and IED-making material, mortar tubes and round, artillery rounds, machine guns, bulk explosives, anti-tank mines, rocket-propelled grenades and launchers, AK-47 assault rifles, small-arms ammunition and video cameras.
BITTEN? (I know the answer, but I have to ask…what kind of whack monkeys are these religion of pieces a$$holes anyway?)
Sierra Hotel and a big OO-RAH! Keep roundin’ ’em up, Jarheads.
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July 26, 2006 2:25 pm
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“what kind of whack monkeys…”
Here’s to hoping they are now whacked monkeys.
Whack monkeys playing pull-dick on the poison-stick tree gonna get a thorn in the eye.
Another battalion of reservists making us proud.
A loud and thunderous “OUTSTANDING!” for those magnificent warriors.
Huzzah! From the foxholes of Fallujah to the shores of Tripoli (and everywhere in between) – good job, men.