Keeping pressure on the Mahdi Army

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

Bill Ardolino is reporting for the Long War Journal about the ongoing operations to destroy the Mahdi Army as any kind of serious threat. We have a ways to go, but every day brings a tightening of the noose and fewer places they have the open support of the populace.

The US soldiers and Iraqi police living at Joint Security Station Al Qanat at the Northeastern edge of Baghdad’s Rusafa district have “a front row seat” to the fight taking place in Sadr City. As US and Iraqi Army forces clash with the Mahdi Army, hissing RPGs and small arms fire periodically crackle during the day and are punctuated by occasional orange explosions and red tracers streaking out of the Sadr City skyline at night. Two to four Apache attack helicopters constantly prowl the airspace over the battlefield, randomly popping flares as they search for targets. The characteristic whoosh and boom of a hellfire missile sounds when they find one.

Also be sure to check out this interview he did with an Iraqi Police Chief in Baghdad.

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Keeping pressure on the Mahdi Army

Bill Ardolino is reporting for the Long War Journal about the ongoing operations to destroy the Mahdi Army as any kind of serious threat. We have a ways to go, but every day brings a tightening of the noose and fewer places they have the open support of the populace.

The US soldiers and Iraqi police living at Joint Security Station Al Qanat at the Northeastern edge of Baghdad’s Rusafa district have “a front row seat” to the fight taking place in Sadr City. As US and Iraqi Army forces clash with the Mahdi Army, hissing RPGs and small arms fire periodically crackle during the day and are punctuated by occasional orange explosions and red tracers streaking out of the Sadr City skyline at night. Two to four Apache attack helicopters constantly prowl the airspace over the battlefield, randomly popping flares as they search for targets. The characteristic whoosh and boom of a hellfire missile sounds when they find one.

Also be sure to check out this interview he did with an Iraqi Police Chief in Baghdad.

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