No Greater Pleasure

"In the Washington Times, Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough report the assessment of Army Col. H.R. McMaster, "a soldier-scholar who once advised Gen. John Abizaid", on the battle of Tal Afar:

"via a video hookup to describe how his 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, joined by 3rd Iraqi Army Division, routed most of the extremists.

But it was his description of how the enemy occupied their safe haven that got the most attention. Col. McMaster told of beheadings, gunshot killings, a booby-trapped dead child and kidnappings. '"
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