"Dozens Are Arrested in U.S.-Iraqi Operation: Anbar Residents Said to Offer Their Assistance," which is most positive. From the Washington Post, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
BAGHDAD, June 30 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces in the volatile western province of Anbar have seized thousands of pounds of explosives and arrested dozens of suspected insurgents in a three-day sweep that has encountered little resistance and received widespread cooperation from local residents, military officials said Thursday.The thrust by about 1,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors and 100 Iraqi soldiers, called Operation Sword, centered on towns along the Euphrates River about 90 miles west of Baghdad. Marine spokesmen have said the operation, like other recent sweeps farther west, is aimed at driving insurgents out of towns and disrupting their ability to move fighters, weapons and supplies from neighboring Syria into western Iraq and other parts of the country....
Ah yes, the "police action against terror".
Shouldn't they considered prisoners of war?
Before the ACLU insisists we read them thier Miranda rights?
I was hoping the the Iraqi if not US military would've by now figured out the utter futility of 'arresting' jihadis. A bullet costs much less.
This, it is rumoured, is the unspoken policy of the Indian army fighting jihadis in kashmir. The Indians learnt the hard way that it doesn't pay to apply rules of civiliized conduct to opponents who'd anyway torture and mutilate your troops should they be captured. Also, there's then this whole spectre of ransom demands and hostage exchanges for captured jihadis that kicks in.
When you look at the propaganda of Terrorist media sources such as al-Jazeera, Time, Newsweek, cBS News, the New York and L.A. Times, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Boston Globe and other very freakish "killer-supporters" of the MSM, shooting Terrorists is dangerous to Americans.
However, the Iraq government may soon decide to follow the very intelligent approach followed by India.
This is good news, indeed. I expect we'll be hearing more about segments of that Iraqi TV show that parades captured jihaddists before the cameras to show what slimy cowards they are, followed by well-publicized trials, and, possibly more than a few executions in accordance with the laws of Iraq.