Anatomy of a raid

Successes in Iraq receive little public attention | Lynn Vincent

Successes in Iraq receive little public attention. Did you read anywhere that in dawn raids on Oct. 20 a team of Iraqi soldiers and coalition advisors nabbed eight suspects from three terrorist cells specializing in kidnapping and murder? Or that the day before a similar force conducted an air-assault raid, capturing three men suspected of kidnapping and murdering Iraqi citizens?

Such raids prevent the multiplication of grisly incidents such as the Oct. 16 beheading of a kidnapped Orthodox priest in Mosul. But what goes into a successful raid? Here's an inside story about a raid last May 19 that led to the arrest of the alleged kidnappers of a journalist, Jill Carroll. (Carroll had been released on March 30, but these members of the "Revenge Brigade" allegedly also kidnapped others.)

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November 11, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 43

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