An Update on Operation Thunder

[gilliam]

Bill Roggio provides an update on Operation Thunder (aka. Operation Lightning) - and al-Qaeda’s even more disastrrous Sunni “hearts and minds” policy. Anbar provinces’s leading Albu Mahal tribe is not happy with the insurgents, and intends to do something about it.

 

[gilliam]

Nabs Nearly 900 Suspected MilitantsIraq
ABC News
… together moving an assortment of small arms, rockets, mortars, and explosives, that were found while conducting cache sweeps, near Karmah in Iraq’s al-Anbar …

 

[SnorterLuster]

Thanks for the updates. It seems very little is being written about this operation, even on the milblogs.

 

[gilliam]

Insurgent bunkers found in Iraq
TVNZ, New Zealand
The US military has blown up two bunkers it thinks were used by insurgents to plan attacks and store weapons in Iraq. In ongoing …

Operation Lightning blunts Iraq attacks; Saddam to be charged with war crimes at 16:59 on June 6, 2005, EST. BAGHDAD (AP) - The Iraqi government announced Monday it detained nearly 900 suspected militants and set up more than 800 checkpoints in a two-week sweep that appears to have somewhat blunted attacks in the capital.