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If they would show this dynamic map of the last few thousand years of history in that nasty part of the world instead of a few minutes of boring in-chop briefs - we might all be better off. To this day I have commissioned officers who do not understand a Persian is an Iranian who is not an Arab who is unquesionably not a Turk, and would not buy a Berber lunch if a Maronite paid for it. Pictures are good.
I missed this September 22 Reuters story about transcripts it obtained of an interview Maj. Sam Carrasco gave military investigators in March regarding events in Haditha, Iraq. Events which thrust John Murtha into the limelight after he decided to become judge and jury.
LOS ANGELES, Sept 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Marines were so locked in battle with Iraqi insurgents on the day 24 civilians were killed in Haditha that a U.S. Marine officer considered bombing a house where the insurgents took refuge, he told investigators.Maj. Sam Carrasco, who was overseeing troop movements in the area when two dozen men, women and children were shot in Haditha, said he believed at the time the civilians died in cross-fire between Marines and insurgents.
Carrasco was not at the scene of what Iraqi witnesses say was a massacre by U.S. troops, but was questioned by military investigators over his report of the November 2005 killings.
Reuters obtained a transcript of an interview Carrasco gave two investigators in March. Reached on Thursday, Carrasco declined to comment, citing the investigation.
Read excerpts from the transcripts here.
...is nonetheless sealed. Anyone want to start a pool?
Read this before placing any bets though.
Sky News is reporting that al Masri, Zarqawi's successor, is dead.
Al Qaeda Leader 'Killed'Updated: 09:02, Thursday October 05, 2006
The new leader of terror group al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al Masri, has been killed.
Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al Muhajir, took control of the group on the death of Abu Musab al Zarqawi.
Like his predecessor, Masri was killed by US forces, the Iraqi government announced.
Nothing from CENTCOM yet, other than this:
Coalition forces detained a former driver and personal assistant of Abu Ayyub al-Masri along with 31 others during a series of 11 raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq activities in the Baghdad area Sept. 28.This is the second close associate of Abu Ayyub al-Masri captured in September, also believed to have been one of his personal drivers. Intelligence indicates his participation in the 2005 bombings of the Sheraton and the Al Hamra hotels in Baghdad that killed a total of 16 people and injured 65 others.
Let's see how this one shakes out today.
Update: The U.S. is denying the original report. Blast!
Navy stuff - sea lanes are in the news again as set out here.
China needs its sea lanes, it does.
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