Operation Shurta Nasir

Operation Shurta Nasir or Operation Police Victory or the Battle of Hīt was an operation led by U.S. troops and Iraqi SWAT

SWAT

A SWAT team is an elite tactical unit in various national law enforcement departments. They are trained to perform high-risk operations that fall outside of the abilities of regular officers...

teams trying to capture the town of Hīt

Hīt

Hīt is an Iraqi city in Al-Anbar province. Hīt lies northwest of Ramadi, the provincial capital.On the Euphrates River, Hīt is a small walled town built on two mounds on the site of the ancient city of Is; bitumen wells in the vicinity have been utilized for at least 3,000 years and were used in...

from Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...

forces. The goal of the mission was to eject the Al-Qaeda from the city and establish three Police Station

Police Station

Police Station is a American TV series that aired in syndication in 1959. Stories were taken from actual files.- Cast :*Baynes Barron as Sergeant White*Larry Kerr as Detective Chuck Mitchell*Henry Beckman as Detective Stan Abramson...

s there to cement authority to the town. The Al-Qaeda retreating would be caught in the net of encircling U.S. troops which numbered 1,000 men. The operation was a success, and Hīt was captured and freed from the terrorists.

The trouble with Hīt

Hīt was home to 80,000 people at the time of the Iraq War. The Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

took the town, and have been being a preadator on it, implanting IED

Improvised explosive device

An improvised explosive device , also known as a roadside bomb, is a homemade bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action...

s all over the highways that led to Hīt. U.S. troops had been trying to capture Hīt for a long time, but the Al-Qaeda have been unstoppable. The Sheikh

Sheikh

Not to be confused with sikhSheikh — also spelled Sheik or Shaikh, or transliterated as Shaykh — is an honorific in the Arabic language that literally means "elder" and carries the meaning "leader and/or governor"...

Hikat, the leader of Hīt, was very mad about the monkey business that was afoot. He met with Sergeant Martin Moore of the 5th Special Forces Group and Moore came up with an idea called Operation Shurta Nasir, or "Operation Police Victory" named for the Iraqi SWAT teams that would help the U.S. take over the town.

The time has come for the U.S. to take Hīt. 1,000 U.S. troops encircled the town, waiting for the task force of 26 men to force the Al-Qaeda to run into the U.S. net. Mohammed Sent, a wanted Al-Qaeda leader, was in the town with his entourage of Al-Qaeda troops. The task force moved into the town, and they blew their way through locked gates with explosives. The Arabic translator for Moore, Sammy, told the citizens in Arabian to hide and take cover. Then, the U.S. troops moved into a house, and saw two self-proclaimed "College Students". They were really Al-Qaeda, and they were arrested. They would only be fully apprehended when one Police Station was built. 25 Iraqi Policemen and 6 U.S. Marines were sent to reinforce the task force. The U.S. troops moved out, and they engaged the Al-Qaeda in street fighting. Sent escaped the fighting, and took flight. The town was secured, and the retreating Al-Qaeda save for Sent were killed or captured by the net.

Aftermath

With Hīt secure, three Police Stations were built. The IEDs were disarmed, and Hīt was secure. However, there was more fighting to come in later years, and the city was shifted to Iraqi Government hands. The town of Hīt was safe, but Sent was not captured yet. He is still wanted. Later, General David Petraeus

David Petraeus

David Howell Petraeus is the current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, sworn in on September 6, 2011. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus was a four-star general serving over 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander...

, the top American commander in Iraq, walked the streets of Hīt without wearing a helmet or body armor eating ice cream, and wasn't imperaled at all. This proved Hīt's security and safeness.

The trouble with Hīt

Operation Shurta Nasir

Aftermath

See also