[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21334]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      SIGNIFICANT VICTORY IN IRAQ

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, as my colleague was saying, we have 
talked quite a bit about Hurricanes Katrina and Rita today and over the 
past few weeks, and we do express our sympathies to all of those 
families that have been affected.
  I had a colleague mention a moment ago something about Iraq, the war 
against terrorism, spoke about it from the negative. I want to 
highlight a positive and a real victory, a significant victory in Iraq.
  Al Qaeda's second-highest ranking operative in Iraq was killed in a 
joint strike by U.S. and Iraqi forces. This is a huge win, Mr. Speaker, 
a huge win for our troops and for freedom; and it is another sign that 
we are taking al Qaeda and the terrorist organizations apart, piece by 
piece.
  Whether they are in Iraq, Afghanistan, or working to infiltrate our 
borders, we are working to uncover and destroy the terrorists' network. 
We are being led in this effort by our men and women in uniform. God 
bless them and their good work, and bless those wonderful American-
Iraqi forces who are leading in this war against terror.

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