{"id":214,"date":"2005-11-21T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T22:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2005-11-21T21:09:49","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T02:09:49","slug":"good-news-from-iraq-snipers-neutralize-homicide-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Good News from Iraq &#8211; Snipers Neutralize Homicide Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like intelligence efforts are starting to pay off.<\/p>\n<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/11\/20\/nsas120.xml\">News Telegraph UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Filed: 20\/11\/2005)<br \/>\n&#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers had been told that the house was a being used as a base by insurgents &#8211; and up to three suicide bombers were expected to leave it later that morning.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in explosive vests, they were fully equipped to hit a number of locations around the city. The bombers&#8217; targets were thought to be cafes and restaurants frequented by members of the Iraqi security forces.<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence was regarded as &#8220;high grade&#8221; 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/11\/20\/nsas120.xml\">(more)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Operation Marlborough &#8211; Click to enlarge.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/graphics\/2005\/11\/20\/nsas20big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/news.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/graphics\/2005\/11\/20\/nsas20big.jpg\" width=490 height=380 alt=\"SAS\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like intelligence efforts are starting to pay off. From: News Telegraph UK (Filed: 20\/11\/2005) &#8220;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}