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{{About|a 2006 operation by the Iraqi insurgency|the 1990–91 troop deployment|Gulf War#Operation Desert Shield}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2012}}
{{Infobox military conflict
| conflict= Operation Desert Shield
| partof= [[Iraq War]] and the [[Global War on Terrorism]]
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| date= January 2006{{spaced ndash}}May 2006
| place= [[Al Anbar Governorate]], [[Iraq]]
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| result= Major Al-Qaeda victory
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| combatant2= [[Mujahideen Shura Council (Iraq)|Mujahideen Shura Council]]
*[[Image:Flag of al-Qaeda in Iraq.svg|22px]] [[Al-Qaeda in Iraq]]
{{flagicon|Iraq|1991}} [[Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War)|Other Sunni insurgents]]
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{{Campaignbox Al Anbar campaign}}
'''Operation Desert Shield''' was a 2006 operation by the [[Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War)|Iraqi insurgency]] and [[al-Qaeda in Iraq]], planned in December 2005 as a push against American forces during the [[Iraq War]]. The goal was to destabilize the American foothold in the [[Al Anbar Governorate|Anbar province]] over the course of six months.
 
The planning of the operation was not discovered by the Americans until documents captured after the death of [[Faris Abu Azzam]] were finally translated, and revealed the details of the operation.<ref name="cnn">[[CNN]], [http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/11/al.qaeda.iraq/index.html Papers give peek inside al Qaeda in Iraq], 11 June 2008</ref> The army said the documents surprised them, showing that the insurgents had a "pretty robust command and control system".<ref name="cnn"/>
 
==The operation==
 
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