At the Multi—National Force Iraq website an update on Operation Swarmer has been posted.  As readers will note, it is much more than the just—for—show, lightweight exercise by which many in the antique media have described it.  Those Malicious Minions of Misinformation also refuse to supply context in their reporting, as in this is just one of several ongoing operations in Iraq aimed at killing or capturing terrorists & insurgents. More and more of those operations are, like Swarmer, being executed by Iraqi forces.  And this isn't the first Iraqi army air assault.  That historic event occurred June 1, 2005 when 35 soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division were inserted into a landing zone outside Baghdad by Blackhawk helicopters of B Company, 4th Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division.  Their mission: raids and door—door searches in towns & villages to find IED and...(Read Full Post)