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Nathan Webster Dispatch

Jul- 5-2008 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Webster published another dispatch at The Long War Journal. He is currently embedded with the 1-14 INF, 2/25 SBCT. Excerpt:

TARMIYAH, IRAQ: A “keystone moment” in the recent turnaround to a relative calm in Tarmiyah was the February release of local tribal leader Sheikh Sa’ed Jassim, held for 11 months in US detention.

US Army Captain Christopher Loftis helped make the decision to free Jassim, but only after Jassim’s son persuaded Loftis that his father would improve the relationship between Americans and Iraqis in this area 25 miles north of Baghdad.

Letting Jassim go home was a risk. It appears to have paid off.


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