285 Iraqis detained in massive raid

[Judi Lynn]

May 23, 2005, 10:16PM

285 Iraqis detained in massive raid
Shiites call the U.S.-led mission random, say such acts fuel insurgents
By TOM LASSETER
Knight Ridder Tribune News

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers poured through Baghdad on Monday, detaining at least 285 suspected insurgents since Sunday in house-to-house searches and finding $6 million in a batch of $100 bills, the preferred currency for paying insurgent hit men and bomb-makers.

Bystanders were also apparently caught up in the dragnet, however. Some Iraqis said that while Operation Squeeze Play took some insurgents off the streets, it's also likely to fuel the same cycle that has hounded the American presence for two years: angering moderate Iraqis while giving insurgents a friendlier environment in which to carry out attacks.

Raad Mutlek, a Sunni Muslim, was sitting in a candy shop in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib neighborhood on Monday. He was filling in for the shop's owner, his cousin, who was detained the day before during Operation Squeeze Play.

"They came here and detained people randomly," Mutlek said. "The families of the innocent people who have been detained will seek revenge."
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/3195006

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

1. hundred dollar bills

wonder where that money originally came from?
maybe the $ given to the troops to "pass out"?
Where the hell else would they have gotten hundred dollar bills?

and I love this:
""The families of the innocent people who have been detained will seek revenge."

and everyone else who HATES the occupiers might also seek revenge!

...Permanent Bases in Iraq?
think again Chimp..

[Botany]

2. We are in deep shit ........

26,000,000 Iraqis and 130,000 US troops

285 arrests = spit in the Ocean

http://www.thousandreasons.org/get_article.php?article_id=54

a short essay I did on Iraq ......

[geckosfeet]

5. How do you arrest and detain a whole country,,,,

[rodeodance]

3. In Iraq, efforts to catch militants fuel rage, fear (285 rounded up)

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/iraq24e_20050524.htm

In Iraq, efforts to catch militants fuel rage, fear


U.S.-Iraqi operation nets 285 suspects with random raids
May 24, 2005


BY TOM LASSETER
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS



BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers poured through Baghdad on Monday, detaining suspected insurgents in house-to-house searches and finding $6 million in $100 bills, the preferred currency for paying insurgent hit men and bomb-makers.


At least 285 suspected insurgents had been detained since Sunday. Bystanders were also apparently caught up in the dragnet, however.


Some Iraqis said that while Operation Squeeze Play took some insurgents off the streets, it angered moderate Iraqis while giving insurgents a friendlier environment in which to carry out attacks. ..........


"They came here and detained people randomly," Mutlek said. "The families of the innocent people who have been detained will seek revenge."

[Frederik]

4. Hearts & Minds

[merwin]

6. Let's get this straight. Iraqi people have no bank, no currency of their

own, and are basically forced to use dollars... and somehow it's illegal to have a lot of money stashed away?

I'm not saying that some of them aren't "bad guys", but come on... is that all they have on these people?