Steel Curtain

"U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major military offensive along a key part of the Syrian border Saturday to combat smuggling of foreign fighters and materials into Iraq and to lay the ground for national elections in six weeks, the U.S. military announced."

"About 2,500 U.S. and 1,000 Iraqi troops were involved in the so-called Steel Curtain offensive in and around Husaybah, a town of about 30,000 people on the Syrian border about 200 miles west of Baghdad. The U.S. military says the town is a critical transit point and staging area for al Qaeda in Iraq, the radical insurgent group of Jordanian Abu Musab Zarqawi."

--LynZee