Slow, but sure progress in Ramadi
Michael Fumento has an interesting article detailing the steady progress the U.S. is making in the city of Ramadi, and how we are slowly but surely grinding down the insurgency. See it here.
(Hat tip, Ace)

Michael Fumento has an interesting article detailing the steady progress the U.S. is making in the city of Ramadi, and how we are slowly but surely grinding down the insurgency. See it here.
(Hat tip, Ace)

The FOB I was on was a former Iraqi Air Force base. As a result, we had a couple of these old Mig-21s laying around. The former commander of the base told me the more modern planes were buried - and then dug up for scrap by the locals.
I was able to visit the Ah Shaw(sp) palace in Baghdad - one of Saddam's old haunts and now the home of MNC-I. These columns were huge.
This mosque, I was told, was Saddam's personal mosque near the Al Faw palace. Now, it's located on Victory Base Complex.
This is me getting the upper hand on one of the guys in my unit. We were learning search techniques for a hand-cuffed suspect.
QWBC, the FOB I was on, was an old Iraqi air force base and there were some of these old, beat fighters still lying around.
This is a rocket that landed on our base, detonated underground, and did no damage. I believe this is actually a rocket designed to be fired from an aircraft, but Hajji will use anything they can get to shoot.
This is a mosque located on our FOB. No American was alloowed inside - even if you were security (like me) or an American Muslim.
This ammo can was on the top of one of our HMMWVS and took the force of a IED attack. It probably saved the life of the gunner.
I would love to tell you what this mural says, but I never got it translated. I'm pretty sure it dates back to when the Iraqi Army and Air Force were still under Saddam. It was located in a building on our FOB.
This graffiti showed up on some walls in a local national parking lot not long before I left. I was told it is a memorial to locals who had worked for the USA and been killed.
A collection of rocket launchers. Hajji will often set these up, put a rocket in it, set up some sort of timer device, and then leave the area for the rocket to fire at a later time.
Here's what it looked like as we boarded the plane to fly to Iraq. I remember being both excited and nervous at the same time.
I took this photo while flying over Baghdad. It is the Grand Mosque which Saddam was building when the invasion occurred. When finished, it was supposed to be the largest mosque in the world. I doubt it will ever be completed.
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