The Iraqi Forces Are Getting Better

[Annie]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1332013.htm

Iraqi forces seize 131 suspects in raid
Iraqi soldiers, backed by US helicopters, are reported to have seized 131 suspects in a dawn raid on insurgents planning attacks on the holy city of Kerbala.

The Defence Ministry says troops also retrieved tonnes of explosives.

The Defence Minister, Hazim al-Shaalan, described it as a very successful operation based on intensive surveillance.

Several suspected militants were reported killed in the operation, which began late on Friday and culminated in the dawn raid just outside Kerbala, about 100 kilometres south-west of Baghdad.

Officials say say those arrested included foreigners using fake Iraqi identification papers.

Three tonnes of TNT explosive, hundreds of rocket-propelled grenade launchers and at least three prepared car bombs were also found.

Kerbala, an important Shi'ite Muslim holy city, has been targeted by militants several times in the past.

Next week the city will draw hundreds of thousands of pilgrims for Arbain, a major mourning ceremony.

Earlier this week Iraqi police commandos said they killed 85 militants in a raid on a suspected insurgent training camp near Baghdad, hailing it as a breakthrough against the insurgency.

-Reuters

 

[Annie]

From that 'conservative MSM':

http://iraqnow.blogspot.com/2005/03/amber-alert-missing-headline.html

Monday, March 28, 2005
Amber alert: Missing Headline
All units, all units: Be on the lookout for a headline reported missing from the mastheads of America's newspapers.

The missing headline, "130 Terrorists, Car Bomb Factory, Captured near Kerbala," was last seen in a Reuters wire report carried on an ABC news outlet in Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1332013.htm

The missing headline may be seen with the following lede:

"Two days ago, Iraqi security forces captured 130 terrorists, tons of explosives, and three fully-assembled car bombs outside the Shiite city of Kerbala."


This headline is currently missing from the archives of the New York Times' website..

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/worldspecial/text/index.html

The Times did, however, find room to run a story on a mistaken gunfight between Iraqi soldiers and police officers, which killed three.

Such is the news judgement at America's so-called "Newspaper of Record."

The headline is also missing from the archives of the pseudojournalists at the LA Times, who's only mention of Kerbala (or "Karbala") on their search engine is a March 27 story on an IED which killed two U.S. troops.

Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of the missing headline should contact the New York Times' public editor at [email protected]

That is all.

Splash, out

Jason