I dropped a link earlier to a story about Iraqi forces taking out 80 terrorists. But Confederate Yankee writes and tells me that I need to emphasize the story more. He's right.

It turns out that there were 85 pieces of terrorist shit that were splattered by our Iraqi allies today, not 80. Hey, five more dead mujahidin going to meet their 75 white grapes is a good numerical adjustment in my book.

The great part about this story, as Confederate Yankee rightly notes, is that it was the Iraqi forces themeselves that flushed these pieces of turd. We Americans, apperenlty, just sat back and held the toilet paper.

Confederate Yankee has a good roundup on how the MSM is under-emphasizing the importance of this story. Go read it.

Interesting enough, Evan Kohlmann of the Counterterrorism blog, e-mailed me yesterday with some interesting photos of what appear to be a terrorist training camp in Iraq. Hmmm, mujahidin make mistake of taking photos of terrorist training camp....Evan releases the photos to the public....the next day terrorist training camp raided......Maybe just a coincidence?

Chad Evans at In the Bullpen notes that since there were foreign fighters at the camp, it was most likely one of the various al Qaeda linked groups. I ditto the sentiment especially in light of Evan's findings.

Hyscience has some interesting factoids about the area in which the human diarhea were training. Apparently, Lake Tharthar was Saddam Hussein's favorite fishing spot. The good doctor also notes that there has been a significant decline in terrorst activities in the Sunni triangle in the past month. *Excellent* (read in Mr. Burns voice)

Goldstein, of course, one ups the insiders who follow the jihadi message boards with some insider information of his own. He has his own Mosad agent deeply rooted in a Tikrit bunker.

Others: James Joyner Stufff:

The Iraqi government has said its forces killed 85 insurgents at a rebel training camp north of Baghdad in what would be one of the highest guerrilla death tolls in the two-year insurgency.

The United States military, which provided ground and air support for Iraqi police commandos, said the fight took place yesterday but it could not confirm the insurgent death toll.

The Iraqi government said foreign fighters were among the militants in the hours-long battle and an Algerian was captured. Seven police commandos died in the clashes in a remote region near a lake 160km northwest of Baghdad.

"Special police commandos conducted a successful raid on a terrorist training camp ... which killed 85 terrorists and lead to the successful capture of one Algerian," the government said in a statement.

"The commandos netted explosives, vehicles, various computers, documents and heavy weaponry. The terrorists had planned on attacking Samarra by using a large number of (car bombs) that were found at the facility."

It was unclear how all but one rebel came to be killed and how none were wounded. The government also could not explain the discrepancy between the high insurgent death toll and the relatively light police losses, saying only that the operation was a success.

An Interior Ministry official said among those killed were Sudanese, Algerians and Moroccans, and a commander of the special police battalion said Syrians and Saudis were also among the dead, according to their identity papers.

The suspected training camp was in a remote location west of Tikrit and Samarra, where US troops have had a presence for nearly two years. It was not clear how such a large camp could have been established without earlier detection.

While Iraqi forces have overestimated their successes against insurgents in the past, the death of 85 militants would mark one of the most successful days for Iraqi forces since they were set up more than 18 months ago.

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