“We feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency. We’ve taken away this safe haven,” Lt. Gen. John Sattler told reporters at the Pentagon in a video teleconference from Fallujah.
GUNMEN ambushed a convoy of Iraqi National Guards in Ramadi, killing nine soldiers and wounding 17, local hospital officials said today.
Rocket-wielding guerrillas ordered the men from their vehicles and then gunned them down after holding them up on a main street in broad daylight and forcing them to drive to the outskirts of the city, wounded survivors said.
The attackers then torched the Guards’ two trucks.
Mmmmkay, then.
