An Iraqi child walks U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Robert Sepulveda back to his vehicle in Al Salaam, Iraq, March 1, 2007. Sepulveda is from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Martin K. Newton, U.S. Army. (Released)
From left, U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Shelly Ward, U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Shane Enos and U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Shawn Haney, all from the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, distribute school supplies March 8, 2007, to Afghan children at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, during a volunteer community relations mission. DoD photo by Senior Airman Stacia Zachary, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Pearce sits next to an Iraqi boy during a visit to Sheik Burhan Al Asee's house during a patrol in Riyahd village, Iraq, March 8, 2007. Pearce is assigned to Delta Company, 2nd Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
Well not everybody.
from here March 20, 2007
Good morning. I'm Major General Mike Barbero, the deputy director for regional operations on the Joint Staff. And today I'd like to start providing you a brief update on the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan from the Joint Staff perspective, and then I'll be happy to take your questions.
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But we have in al Qaeda in Iraq and their associated forces, they're determined to continue to take the fight in a variety of ways: attacking coalition forces, they are still doing that and we're still seeing the attacks on coalition forces and we have not seen a let-up in that. But they will change their tactics.
And I'd just like to share with you a recent tactic which they employed this weekend. As our checkpoints and control points have been more effective, as they try to execute these high-profile attacks with these vehicle-borne IEDs in Baghdad, we're stopping a lot of them at these checkpoints and they're not getting to the intended target.
A technique we saw this weekend is we saw a vehicle with two children in the back seat come up to one of our checkpoints, get stopped by our folks. Children in the back seat lower suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle. The adults run out and detonate it with the children in the back.
So the brutality and ruthless nature of this enemy hasn't changed. I mean, they are just interested in slaughtering Iraqi civilians to meet their ends. So will they continue
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