Good News from Iraq – Snipers Neutralize Homicide Bombers

Filed under:War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 11/21/2005 @ 5:02 pm

Sounds like intelligence efforts are starting to pay off.

From: News Telegraph UK

(Filed: 20/11/2005)
“Early on a warm summer morning, a few hours before traffic began to fill the streets, a 16-man SAS patrol took up ambush positions around a Baghdad house, writes Sean Rayment.

The soldiers had been told that the house was a being used as a base by insurgents – and up to three suicide bombers were expected to leave it later that morning.

Dressed in explosive vests, they were fully equipped to hit a number of locations around the city. The bombers’ targets were thought to be cafes and restaurants frequented by members of the Iraqi security forces.

The intelligence was regarded as “high grade” and came from an Iraqi agent who had been nurtured by members of the British Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, for several months.”

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