Thursday, March 16, 2006
Roggio With Reality
I wondered what was in the cards after reading this AP story a couple of weeks ago--I still have the note I made to myself that Centcom had decided to give the phrase "level the playing field" a whole new meaning to the Iraqi "insurgency". Now Bill Roggio, who is back at The Fourth Rail, has news and background for Operation Swarmer Near Samarra, the "largest air assault operation since Operation Iraqi Freedom I." Centcom's press release on the operation is here.
In Swearing In Parliament and Mini-Tet Foiled, Roggio also has analysis about the swearing-in of a new Iraqi parliament that will form the next government, the illusions and realities of "sectarian violence" and the Tet-like al-Qaeda plot against the IZ. Apparently the figure of over 400 al-Qaeda was not a typo or the product of someone's imagination, a fact that, while alarming on its face, given the outcome actually bodes quite well for Iraq and its new Security Forces.
Roggio also has the background and facts on the real civil war in Iraq in Civil War & Where's Zarqawi?. With few exceptions, you won't read or hear much about this elsewhere.
The Fourth Rail
In Swearing In Parliament and Mini-Tet Foiled, Roggio also has analysis about the swearing-in of a new Iraqi parliament that will form the next government, the illusions and realities of "sectarian violence" and the Tet-like al-Qaeda plot against the IZ. Apparently the figure of over 400 al-Qaeda was not a typo or the product of someone's imagination, a fact that, while alarming on its face, given the outcome actually bodes quite well for Iraq and its new Security Forces.
Roggio also has the background and facts on the real civil war in Iraq in Civil War & Where's Zarqawi?. With few exceptions, you won't read or hear much about this elsewhere.
The Fourth Rail
