Sunday, November 16, 2003
From the invaluable new newspaper Iraq Today comes an encouraging report on the increasing amount of intelligence that Iraqi police are gathering about insurgents. It's a good read, but the fact that the writer and the principal source have the same last name is curious.
Intelligence Yields Results
The bad news is that the number of bombs being found is growing with each day. The good news is that the network of informants that Iraqi police have been building for the last two months is uncovering most of them.
'We now have good information about the resistance action in our area and we are beginning to limit their abilities,' said Aljuburi. 'Every day we discover a new resistance operation. For example, [last Wednesday] we discovered six landmines on the Tikrit -Kirkuk road, three more on the road between Baiji and Mosul, and two mines inside the Baiji area.
Intelligence Yields Results
The bad news is that the number of bombs being found is growing with each day. The good news is that the network of informants that Iraqi police have been building for the last two months is uncovering most of them.
'We now have good information about the resistance action in our area and we are beginning to limit their abilities,' said Aljuburi. 'Every day we discover a new resistance operation. For example, [last Wednesday] we discovered six landmines on the Tikrit -Kirkuk road, three more on the road between Baiji and Mosul, and two mines inside the Baiji area.
