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Michael Yon on Iraq: ?The progress is unbelievable?
2008-05-22 19:22:00 Even the NY Times can’t ignore it. BAGHDAD ? Iraqi forces rolled unopposed through the huge Shiite enclave of Sadr City on Tuesday, a dramatic turnaround from the bitter fighting that has plagued the Baghdad neighborhood for two months, and a qualified success for Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. Link: sevenload.com hattip: Hotair ---Related Articles at Infidels Are Cool:Video: ...
Video: Michael Yon on Foxnews
2008-04-29 01:40:00 Very much admired and respected former Marine, Michael Yon, author of the new book Moment of Truth, who has provided some of the most compelling and accurate reports from the ground in Iraq, appeared on Foxnews today to report on the good news in Iraq and unfortunately, some bad news about our efforts in ...
Michael Yon: ?Let?s Surge Some More?
2008-04-12 00:03:00 Michael Yon has a piece in the WSJ today discussing the progress in Iraq and it’s an excellent read. For those who don’t know who Michael Yon is, your really missing out. Yon is a former special forces soldier turned blogger who has literally been living embedded with the troops in Iraq since 2004. He first ...
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Michael Yon: Stake through Their Hearts
2008-03-25 18:44:00 Another AWESOME article from Michael Yon with pictures and accurate reporting on the real story coming out of Iraq. Instead of the mainstream media reaching desperately for an sign of bad news, we have the real journalists who don’t get as much press like Michael Yon and Michael Totten. These men, for months have been ...
Michael Yon
2008-02-07 16:22:00 Blog of the Day Awards for Thursday February 7, 2008.A Blog of the Day Award goes to Michael YonTechnorati TagsBlog Award Blog Awards winner Bloggers Blogs Awards Blogging Bloggies Weblogs Weblog Award of the day Award web online nominations Internet Blog of the Day Awards Blog of the Day Award Blog of the Day BOTDA winners Weblog Award Weblog Awards blogspot Be sure to submit your nominations early.Thank you
Men of Valor: Part V _ Michael Yon [Digg]
2008-01-07 17:31:00 "I was eating lunch with some British soldiers in Basra. I didn’t know any of them, but could tell they were veterans by their eyes and the way they talked. They were quiet, professional, and exceptionally polite"Michael Yon continues to enlighten us with his reports.
Snark of the Day: Michael Yon
2007-12-28 22:14:00 I have directly observed how more and more Iraqis have grown to hate al Qaeda as much as Americans do. Al Qaeda has lost all credibility there, both from a religious standpoint as well as strategically Michael Yon.
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Michael Yon talks progress in Iraq on CNN (video)
2007-11-05 03:16:00 I have read a number of reports about the mood changing amongst Iraqis in Baghdad. People are very hesitant to have another "Mission Accomplished" moment though. When it gets to the point that even the press has to start acknowledging it though, well, it must be overwhelmingly good news. What is interesting though is that the Democrats, especially the hard core radical left, are still whining doom and gloom just as much if not more. How invested in defeat are those people that only bad news for the country is good news for them? ~RJH  HotAir article link Video: Michael Yon talks progress in Iraq on CNN WaPo asked the million-dollar question on Friday. Is the fight over or are we just between rounds? No one’s saying “mission accomplished” but both Yon and CNN’s Pentagon correspondent, Jamie McIntyre, think there’s more to what’s going on than the two sides taking a breather. “The mood of the people has changed dramatically,” says Yon — a sentiment with which McIn...
Michael Yon on progress in Iraq
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Michael Yon: Doing the Job The Lame Stream Will Not
2007-10-29 22:53:00 Greetings,Many interesting developments in Iraq: I am working hard to produce dispatches to convey the situation in the various locations where I've been traveling. I have numerous dispatches on the British and the situation down in Basra that will start going up as early as next week, but timing depends in part on the ground conditions here in south Baghdad.A new dispatch is published here.I wrote an editorial piece for the New York Post that was published on Sunday. You can read it here.I will publish the first foreign language translation soon. Your support made that happen, and is very much appreciated. I am having difficulty sending thank you acknowledgements due to an ongoing glitch with PayPal that makes it impossible to download the logs. We're working to resolve this, because we want people to know their help is making a very real difference.V/r,Michael
Michael Yon: Doing the Job The Lame Stream Will Not
2007-10-29 22:53:00 Greetings,Many interesting developments in Iraq: I am working hard to produce dispatches to convey the situation in the various locations where I've been traveling. I have numerous dispatches on the British and the situation down in Basra that will start going up as early as next week, but timing depends in part on the ground conditions here in south Baghdad.A new dispatch is published here.I wrote an editorial piece for the New York Post that was published on Sunday. You can read it here.I will publish the first foreign language translation soon. Your support made that happen, and is very much appreciated. I am having difficulty sending thank you acknowledgements due to an ongoing glitch with PayPal that makes it impossible to download the logs. We're working to resolve this, because we want people to know their help is making a very real difference.V/r,Michael
Michael Yon...Resistance is Futile
2007-10-22 12:19:00 I do believe that this dispatch, if not the best so far, it should ranked way up the food chain of dispatches.Resistance is Futile October 22, 2007 Resistance is futile: You will be (mis)informed.All describe the bizarro-world contrast between what most Americans seem to think is happening in Iraq versus what is really happening in Iraq. Knowing this disconnect exists and experiencing it directly are two separate matters. It’s like the difference between holding the remote control during the telecast of a volcanic eruption on some distant island (and then flipping the channel), versus running for survival from a wretch of molten lava that just engulfed your car. I was at home in the United States just one day before the magnitude hit me like vertigo: America seems to be under a glass dome which allows few hard facts from the field to filter in unless they are attached to a string of false assumptions. Considering that my trip home coincided with General Petraeus’ testimo...
Michael Yon...This Week In War and Achievments of the Human Heart
2007-10-19 05:56:00 What would we do without these men reporting from the front? Do what our parents did in the late 1960s and early 1970s? Listening the the Lame Stream Losers?Michael on ?This Week at War?Overwatch: British Forces in southern Iraq are transitioning to a mission defined more by overwatch, training Iraqi forces and patrolling the Iranian border. Michael was interviewed from Basra, Iraq as part of a segment entitled ?The British Troop Drawdown: Can the Iraqis control Basra?? Also featured in this segment was Nic Robertson, CNN Senior International Correspondent, reporting from Baghdad. The October 13th broadcast of CNN?s ?This Week at War? aired on Saturday at 7pm Eastern and was re-broadcast on Sunday, October 14th at 1pm Eastern....Click the link and read the rest.Achievements of the Human Heart Achievements of the Human Heart When the 1-4 CAV first arrived to set up COP Amanche, the neighorbood looked beyond hope. On April 30, 2007, I published the conclusion of a two-part dispatc...
Michael Yon...Under Distant Stars
2007-10-09 22:30:00 Michael Yon is baaaaaaaack!! Greetings, A new dispatch is published: Under Distant Stars. I've just spent 10 days on the Iran-Iraq border with an excellent British "Battle Group" called 4 Rifles. We truly were living under the desert stars. I am currently in Basra. There are reports that Basra is in chaos. These reports are false. Basra is mostly peaceful; the British have not lost a soldier in combat for more than a month, and Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence has plummeted in the last six weeks or so. The British have NOT pulled out of Iraq or Basra yet, but from what I can see, their force reduction decisions are militarily and politically sound, and are supported by top American commanders in Baghdad.The news reports I am seeing about Basra are incomplete at best, and largely inaccurate. (Reminds me of Mosul during 2005.) V/r, Michael
Michael Yon...Hunting Al Qaeda Parts 2 and 3 of 3
2007-09-20 08:12:00 Hunting Al Qaeda, Part II of IIIDay break: This hilarious medic asked who would bear the Holy Hand Grenade on today?s mission.When we dropped ramp in the ?Mechanics? section of Baqubah, and linked up with Iraqi soldiers, I heard my danger chimes peal. Minutes after we hit the ground?POW!?a shot was fired close by and dust kicked in the air. An Iraqi soldier had managed to accidentally fire a shot from his AK-47. They are getting much better, but not there yet. I am not sure what tipped me off that this particular group of Iraqi Soldiers wasn?t entirely squared-away, but that shot only underscored the feeling. Back in 2005, I would seek cover whenever Iraqi Army approached. It?s not like that in 2007; they are becoming a real army, but there is still room for improvement.Click the links and read the rest.Fouad Ajami Excellent piece in the Wall Street Journal:?You Have Liberated a People?By Fouad AjamiHunting Al Qaeda Part III of III The Silver Van First, a recap of the end of...
Michael Yon...Hunting al Qaeda, Part I of III
2007-09-12 19:07:00 Below is an excerpt from the latest from Michael Yon. This man, as others like him in Indian Country, brave the elements not because they have been told to go or they have been assigned the duty. They go because they KNOW the truth and amazingly, their reports mirror the reports of General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker to our pathetic CONgress in recent days.Click the links provided to read the rest and don't forget to donate to the cause of Michael Yon. Hunting al Qaeda, Part I of III Witches Sink, Insurgents Float [American Soldiers at War: 1-12 CAV in Baqubah. Bradley commander giving me a lift from FOB Warhorse to COP White Castle. Writing these words from downtown Baqubah at a place called Combat Outpost White Castle, I am surrounded by soldiers from Alpha Company 1-12 Cav who are preparing for combat. Tomorrow, [15 July] they will clear a dangerous palm grove that abuts the Diyala River, a place where just last night approximately 7 suspected enemy were killed by Am...
Michael Yon...Don?t Ask Me What I Think about the Petraeus Report
2007-09-10 20:28:00 He says to ask the CommandersDon?t Ask Me What I Think about the Petraeus ReportRead the latest dispatch, published at National Review Online. Please click here.One paragraph below. Read the rest at NRO.Weeks ago, as the deadline for General David Petraeus?s progress report on the war loomed, journalists were already asking me what I thought of it. Then, as now, I do not know what to think of the report since it is not yet published. Even this coming week, after listening to the general?s testimony before Congress, I will have to read the report and transcripts numerous times, sleep on the information, and reflect on it in light of my own observations of the situation in Iraq. The outcome of the war in Iraq, and to some extent the greater War on Terror, will largely depend upon our decisions today. The outcome is too important for quick words. Many will try to be the first to report on the report, and their reports likely will be the most unreliable.Thank God above for men such as ...
Michael Yon...Ghosts of Anbar, Part IV of IV
2007-09-07 18:11:00 Yet another fascinating report from Michael Yon, spanning the newsworthy void of reality perpetrated from the Lame Stream Media.Well done, Sir...well done.Michael Yon...Ghosts of Anbar, Part IV of IV?They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks? food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.? T.E. Lawrence, ?The Seven Pillars of Wisdom? The Ghosts of Anbar: Part IV of IV What Defines Need Not Divide From the COIN Field Manual that every soldier and Marine needs to read:Click the link and read the rest.
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Michael Yon...A Marine. A Mentor. A Model Approach.
2007-09-04 19:56:00 A Marine. A Mentor. A Model Approach.I did not even know his name when I went on the first mission with Rakene Lee. Yet within half an hour, it was clear that Lee was another example of someone who intuitively understands the basics and basis of counterinsurgency. In Ghosts of Anbar, Part III of IV, the importance of leaders like SSGT Lee is described:Click the links and read the rest.
Michael Yon...Brings Us A Partnership Feature
2007-09-02 05:03:00 It is a video which cannot be embedded...or at least I don't have the wherewithal...Go to Michael Yon's site to view the video.Thanks.
Michael Yon...Ghosts of Anbar, Part III of IV
2007-08-31 00:29:00 All of us should keep men like Michael Yon in our thoughts and prayers in an ever present debt of gratitude for risking all there is to risk in bringing us the Real News and for being the Armed Forces Voices From The War...Thank you Michael Yon...keep your head down!!Click the link and read the rest...Ghosts of Anbar Part III of IVA Model for Success While some Iraqi Army and Police officers searched for the suspected bomber, we searched for the bomb supposedly planted along this stretch. A culvert under a 4-lane road is a likely place. To many of the Iraqis I?ve spoken with, terrorists are fair game. Kill them. But if we kill justice while doing so, we will create terrorists out of farmers. Here the Marines are creating farmers, police officers, shepherds, and entrepreneurs out of insurgents. To do that, they have to be seen as men who respect and honor legitimate systems of government and justice.
Embedded At Front Lines of World War III:Michael Yon?s Latest Dispatch from
2007-08-28 12:48:00 If you don’t regularly read Michael Yon’s dispatches as an embedded blogger in Iraq…. you are missing the real news. His latest, The Ghosts of Anbar - Part II, highlight how General Petraeus’ counterinsurgency plan is being conducted and has been effective. Over the past several years, while working into a strategic fatigue, our military has ...
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Michael Yon...The Ghosts of Anbar, Part II of IV
2007-08-27 19:00:00 The American people should always and forever be in a constant state of gratitude for what men like Michael Yon risk to bring us the REAL news.The Ghosts of Anbar, Part II of IVThe Ghosts of Anbar, Part II of IV Through the window, clearly 7-15. Success in COIN operations requires small-unit leaders agile enough to transition among many types of missions and able to adapt to change. They must be able to shift through a number of activities from nation-building to combat and back again in days, or even hours. Alert junior leaders recognize the dynamic context of a tactical situation and can apply informed judgment to achieve the commander?s intent in a stressful and ambiguous environment. COIN operations are characterized by rapid changes in tactical and operational environments. The presence of the local populace within which insurgents may disappear creates a high degree of ambiguity. Adaptable leaders observe the rapidly changing situation, identify its key characteristics, ascert...
Michael Yon...The Ghosts of Anbar, Part 1 of 4
2007-08-22 20:44:00 The Ghosts of Anbar, Part 1 of 4Part One: The Paradox of Counterinsurgency The principles and imperatives discussed above reveal that COIN presents a complex and often unfamiliar set of missions and considerations for a military commander. In many ways, the conduct of counterinsurgency is counterintuitive to the traditional American view of war?although it has actually formed a substantial part of America?s actual experience. Counterinsurgency December 2006 FM 3-24MCWP 3-33.5 To know a man, follow his tracks.Click the link and read the rest.Buzzings...
Michael Yon...Public Affairs: Baqubah Food
2007-08-19 07:42:00 Public Affairs: Baqubah FoodWhere is the "Main Stream" Media? Working on their next Bash Bush nonsense?Story Sgt. Patrick Lair Photos by PV2 Kirby Rider and Sgt. Patrick Lair 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment BAQUBAH, IRAQ? After the fight to retake an Iraqi city is over, the struggle to reconstruct a functioning government is the fist order of business. That?s why U.S. and Iraqi forces were excited recently to witness local trucks arrive, accompanied by the Iraqi Army, at a Baqubah flour mill with 560 tons of imported wheat to feed the people of Diyala province. ?This is one more piece to the larger puzzle of providing normalcy here,? said Lt. Col. Fred Johnson, deputy commanding officer of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. ?It?s probably the most important thing we?ve done.? The grain, imported from the U.S., will be milled, sacked and distributed to the local population as part of the Public Distribution System, an Iraqi program dat...
Michael Yon...While We Sleep!
2007-08-17 16:18:00 While we SleepMr Yon requests we read something...click the link and comply.Resistance is futile.You will comply.
Michael Yon...Into the Sea
2007-08-15 16:12:00 What would we, the American people,do without the likes of Michael Yon, Bill Roggio, Matt Sanchez, Michael Totten and others? These men are risking their lives to bring to the American people that which the alleged "Main Stream Media" ashamedly will not.Our political leadership know beyond a shadow of a doubt that our Military members are winning this war but because of "political concerns" back here at home, they will not let the American People know, either. It is a sad day in America that politics trumps reality.Click the link provided and Read On as these heroes Soldier On.Into the SeaIt was after midnight and there was to be no sleep. Thinking of the war. I stepped out of bed already dressed, pulled on the shoes without socks and walked a minute or so to the beach. August 15 had begun. On the beach the small stands selling skewers of cooked meat, soft drinks, beer and water were closing. I sat in the dark looking out at the dark sea. Some light shined from behind and ...
Michael Yon: Three Marks on the Horizon
2007-08-14 15:51:00 Three Marks on the HorizonAugust 13, 2007Almost everyone (by now) must have heard about the “lazy” Iraqi parliament members who, like so many Neros fiddling while Rome burns around them, are taking a month off. Yet comparatively few Americans will ever hear or read about IA Scorpion Company Commander Captain Baker; or Iraqi entrepreneur and community catalyst, “Tonto”; or the Mayor of Baqubah, who summoned the courage to step out of the shadow of al Qaeda and fight to get his constituents a warehouse-sized stockpile of food.False advertising is afoot. I write these words from Indonesia, soaking wet, having just returned from photographing rice paddies in a pouring rain, wearing a Florida Gators shirt. That means there is a green alligator on my chest. While supporting my team, my shirt perpetuates the myth that alligators are green, when in fact they are black when wet, gray when dry.The mantra that “there is no political progress in Iraq” is rapidly becoming the “surge” equ...
Michael Yon...Three Marks on the Horizon
2007-08-13 22:24:00 Once again, and as usual, Michael Yon, risking his all, again, brings us reports that the cowardly Lame Stream cannot or will not bring to the American People.The American People should be asking themselves and then the vaunted bastions of reporting, "Why won't the Lame Stream Media report these stories? What are their motives and whose pockets are they in?"Read on.And Mr Yon? Soldier On!Three Marks on the HorizonAlmost everyone (by now) must have heard about the ?lazy? Iraqi parliament members who, like so many Neros fiddling while Rome burns around them, are taking a month off. Yet comparatively few Americans will ever hear or read about IA Scorpion Company Commander Captain Baker; or Iraqi entrepreneur and community catalyst, ?Tonto?; or the Mayor of Baqubah, who summoned the courage to step out of the shadow of al Qaeda and fight to get his constituents a warehouse-sized stockpile of food.So much war, so many missions, but never enough time to publish dispatches covering mo...
Michael Yon's Friend Kidnapped In Iraq
2007-08-10 09:18:00 Courageous Iraqi KidnappedAssociated Press journalist Talal Mohammed has been kidnapped. I learned this information earlier but did not report it out of concern for his safety. The Associated Press has now officially reported his kidnapping. I first met Talal on the first day of Operation Arrowhead Ripper. Click the link to read more...More here at Yahoo! News...NEW YORK (AFP) - An Iraqi journalist working for the Associated Press has been missing for more than a week and family and witnesses believe he has been kidnapped by masked gunmen, the US news agency said Tuesday.Talal Mohammed, who provided both news and photographs for the wire agency, disappeared while traveling to Baghdad from Baquba on July 28, according to his family, who said they believed he had been abducted by masked gunmen.Mohammed, 40, was with a friend on a bus when they were stopped at an illegal checkpoint, the family said. The area, just north of Baghdad, is considered a hotbed of Sunni insurgent activity....
Michael Yon...Telling It Like It Is
2007-08-08 22:26:00 Support Michael YonTelling soldiers' stories from the frontlines is dangerous work that few do as well as Michael Yon. Risking combat injury, intense heat, sand and dust storms, and jarring explosions: the cost is crushing. Most major news organizations can't afford to keep a footprint here, yet Michael Yon does it without corporate sponsors or advertisers. He receives no funding or financial support from Fox News, or any movie, book or television deal. He is entirely reader supported.Earthquake felt in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia I felt a vibrant earthquake about 40 minutes ago in Bali, Indonesia. The USGS shows this: Magnitude 7.4 - JAVA, INDONESIA
Bread and a Circus, Part II of II...Michael Yon!
2007-08-06 20:09:00 Bread and a Circus, Part II of IIThe atmosphere in Baqubah was choked with fear and local authorities were mired in inertia. But the people were relieved and looking for signs that the changes made in the past two weeks were going to last. Restarting food deliveries, after they had been stopped by Baghdad for almost a year, would be a strong indicator that stability was at hand.Read Part I here. After fueling the trucks in the convoy, we headed to Baghdad to get the food. The trucks took an exit down a route that we did not follow, because it had not been cleared of bombs. Sometimes bombs are so large they are buried under roads using earthmoving machines and sit for months waiting for someone just like us, taking a shortcut only to get launched to God. The shortcut caused an hour difference in arrival times, and the break in contact led to frustrating hours of additional delay, tooling around Baghdad trying to find the warehouse, and re-establishing contact with all the trucks. ...
Michael Yon With Dennis Miller!!
2007-08-01 15:01:00 Received the following (as so many others have) from Michael Yon:A new dispatch is posted: "Bread and a Circus." I'll be on the Dennis Miller show live in few hours. The time for the show is 1015 EST. Please click here to visit Dennis' site. The man is hilarious. I'm taking a quick break from the war and am in Singapore. They sincerely like Americans here, and so I love Singapore. V/r, MichaelTune in!! August 1, 2007: Michael Yon Combat Journalist, Author, Blogger, Photographer: michaelyon-online.comIf you are in Texas:Dallas KSKY-AM 660 8p-11p El Paso KROD-AM 600 2p-4p Houston KTRH-AM 740 8p-10p Lubbock KJDL-AM 1420 3p-6p McAllen KNVO-FM 101.1 9a-noon Waco KBCT-FM 94.5 9a-noon
Bread and a Circus, Part I of II...Michael Yon Reports
2007-07-31 14:14:00 Bread and a Circus, Part I of II (This JUST in from Michael Yon!)[Note: Before we begin, a huge congratulations to Iraq for winning the Asian Cup in soccer. As an American, I felt a sense of jubilation when Iraq took the title. I have temporarily left Iraq, for my only ?break? this year, and am in Singapore. Singaporeans are talking about the Iraq soccer victory today. It?s all over the news here.]Bread and a Circus, Part One Baqubah Iraqis and cameras are a sight. ?Everyone? ?knows? that Iraqi women are not to be photographed; but in reality this is situational. Some Iraqi women definitely avoid the shutter, but for others it?s no more taboo than it is to photograph an American woman. But Iraqi men and children (both girls and boys) seem to get vacuumed into the lens. Iraqi parents carrying babies will often practically force you to take a photo of their baby. They do it with smiles and holding up the baby; and looking at the camera; then back at the baby; then again at the camer...
Michael Yon: The Atrocity at Al Hamari
2007-07-06 15:07:00 Michael Yon has a horrifying story of radical Islamic depravity, ignored by a Western media that focuses exclusively on Western transgressions: Baqubah Update: 05 July 2007. Since my reporting of the massacre at the al Hamari village, many readers at home have asked how anyone can know that al Qaeda actually performed the massacre. The question is a very good one, and one that I posed from the first hour to Iraqis and Americans while trying to ascertain facts about the killings. No one can claim with certainty that it was al Qaeda, but the Iraqis here seem convinced of it. At a meeting today in Baqubah one Iraqi official I spoke with framed the al Qaeda infiltration and influence in the province. Although he spoke freely before a group of Iraqi and American commanders, including Staff Major General Abdul Kareem al Robai who commands Iraqi forces in Diyala, and LTC Fred Johnson, the deputy commander of 3-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team, the Iraqi official asked that I withhold his ...
Michael Yon
2007-03-18 05:06:00 I have been reading a fantastic blog written by a man named Michael Yon. He is a citizen journalist that has taken it upon himself to embed himself with our troops in Iraq. His only goal is to learn the truth and pass it on to the rest of us. He is an amazing writer, and I am truly grateful that he is doing this selfless job. I would urge all of you to check out his blog. You can get there
Michael Yon on The Front Line: NOW
2007-02-10 04:31:01 Michael Yon is on the show. Why aren’t you listening? No Tags
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