Iraq al-Qa’ida leader wounded

My sources said they shot his pecker off. No easy task as it was smaller than a baby’s and he was running away at the time. I guarantee this coward didn’t get injured fighting, he was running, screaming and crying to his mommy. I hope he gets a blood infection and dies a slow agonizing death.

February 16, 2007 (AP)
The leader of al-Qa’ida in Iraq was wounded and an aide was killed in a clash today with Iraqi forces north of Baghdad, Iraq’s Interior Ministry spokesman said.
-Both were hit in the crotch, because Masri’s private parts were so small the injury didn’t kill him

The clash occurred near Balad, a major US base about 80km north of the capital, according to ministry spokesman Brigadir General Abdul-Karim Khalaf.

Al-Qa’ida in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri was wounded and his aide, identified as Abu Abdullah al-Majemaai, was killed.

‘The Most Dangerous Spot I Could Find’

This is the real deal not the anti American, anti war, anti military rants you normally see. This is our side doing what they do best. Standing in the street kicking ass and taking names.

‘The Most Dangerous Spot I Could Find’
U.S. sets up Baghdad outposts to put troops closer to Iraqi factions
By Jim Michaels, USA TODAY
BAGHDAD — Army Capt. Erik Peterson’s newly established combat outpost is just blocks from a battle line separating Sunnis and Shiite militias, who fight in the streets almost every day.
Gunfire crackles through the night, and snipers occasionally fire into the fortified compound, which houses U.S. and Iraqi soldiers. Yet Peterson says it’s the perfect place to start restoring order.
“I wanted the most dangerous spot I could find, so I planted my flag right here,” Peterson says.
Peterson and his men from Company C of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment spend 24 hours a day in this outpost in Ghazaliyah, one of Baghdad’s most violent neighborhoods. Sandbags are stacked in the windows, and the buildings are ringed by concrete walls. It’s surrounded by vacant lots, garbage-strewn streets and abandoned homes.
Working side by side with Iraqi soldiers, the troops use the building as a base for traditional combat with insurgents and militias. They also go out on patrol and deal with everything from neighborhood squabbles to kerosene deliveries. “We’ve been the cops,” says Peterson, 29. “We’ve been the local army. We’ve been the ambulance service.”
Outposts such as this are a centerpiece of the new U.S. and Iraqi plan to improve security in Baghdad. About 100 American and 120 Iraqi soldiers are crammed into the outpost’s buildings, sleeping on cots. The outpost functions like a local police station, intended to quell violence and improve daily contact with ordinary Iraqis.
“For us to reduce the level of violence it is going to require a greater interaction with the local people,” says Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the U.S. military’s chief spokesman. He said 10 security outposts have been established in the city and there are plans to build two or three times as many.

Quest To Heal Iraqi Boy Became A Final Mission

This is a long article but a story that needs to be told. This story is the story behind the story of the English speaking mystery men (most likely Iranians) who infiltrated our lines dressed as Americans. This is the story of some of their victims both American and Iraqi. For those of you who do not already know a civil affairs soldier has one of the hardiest jobs in the Army. They are our ambassadors and have the mission to represent the USA and intermix with the local population assess their needs and provide them. They are the fixers not the destroyers, they bring hope to those with none. They will literally walk into the very mouth of Hell and attempt to make peace with the devil. May they rest peacefully, they have earned that right.

By Ernesto Londono, Washington Post Staff Writer February 15, 2007
HILLA, Iraq — Hours before getting killed the way he feared most, Capt. Brian S. Freeman looked up and smiled when Abu Ali dropped by his office.
After nearly six months of overcoming financial and bureaucratic hurdles in a war zone, Freeman told the Iraqi man, there were promising signs that a pair of U.S. visas — the last big step in getting Abu Ali’s 11-year-old son to the United States for lifesaving heart surgery — would be issued soon.
The Iraqi was speechless. He asked an interpreter to express his gratitude to the tall American soldier who had made saving the child’s life an unofficial mission. Then he pulled out his camera, swung his arm around Freeman’s broad shoulders and posed for three photographs.
Hours later, shortly before sunset Jan. 20, armed men in GMC trucks stormed into the government building in Karbala, in southern Iraq. They killed an American soldier, handcuffed Freeman and three other U.S. soldiers, hauled them into the vehicles and drove off. Freeman and the other abducted soldiers were later slain by the attackers.
Freeman, 31, a West Point graduate and Army Reservist, left his young wife and two toddlers in Temecula, Calif., last spring to deploy to Iraq.
He was unenthusiastic about the war, but once his uniform was on, friends said, Freeman embarked on his mission with the optimism and stamina that defined him.
“Most of us here understand the politics of war,” said Capt. Matthew Lawton, one of Freeman’s close friends in Iraq. “Brian didn’t really agree with the war, I think. But he understood, going to West Point, going to the military — that was the right thing to do.”
The local police chief pulled Freeman aside one day in late April and told him about the ailing boy.
The second of five children, Ali Abdulameer was born with a debilitating heart condition that gradually restricted his blood flow. Barring surgery, his father said, the boy’s chances of making it to adulthood were slim. Physicians in Karbala and Baghdad offered bleak prognoses.
“Baghdad doctors always gave me promises, but nothing ever happened,” Abu Ali said.
After hearing about the case, Freeman got online and typed the words “Iraqi kids heart surgery” into the Google search query. The name of a fellow civil affairs soldier he didn’t know popped up. He sent her a note asking for help.
Staff Sgt. Marikay Satryano, an Army Reservist from Tarrytown, N.Y., had become something of an expert in cutting through red tape to get Iraqi children abroad for critical medical care. Stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, Satryano wrote back outlining how to get the process started.