OVER FLORIDA -- Capts. Nikolas Stengle and Chris Auger drop a joint direct attack munition from their F-15E Strike Eagle on June 13. They are assigned to the 336th Fighter Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Joe Esler)
Posted on 11/04/2005 3:36:25 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
November 04, 2005
Release A051104b
Terrorists killed in Husaybah air strike identified
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces identified five al-Qaida leaders killed by an air strike in Husaybah Oct. 29.
Coalition Forces conducted a series of raids on suspected terrorist and foreign fighter safe houses to capture or kill terrorists operating in the town of Husaybah. During the raids, Coalition forces destroyed three safe houses with air strikes using precision guided munitions.
One of the safe houses destroyed was the location of an apparent meeting between al Qaida in Iraq (AQIZ) terrorist leaders from the Husaybah and Al Qaim areas.
Coalition Forces now confirm the deaths of five key al Qaida in Iraq (AQIZ) terrorist leaders who were killed in that meeting. They are:
* Abu Asil, a North African terrorist, was the senior AQIZ foreign fighter facilitator in the Al Qaim region and an associate of Zarqawi. His influence stretched across Al Anbar province and he was relied upon to provide foreign fighters and suicide bombers to AQIZ terrorist cells in the region. Asil had contacts throughout the Middle East who were involved in the recruiting, transportation, training and smuggling of foreign fighters and suicide bombers into Iraq.
* Abu Raghad, a senior AQIZ foreign fighter terrorist cell leader who operated in the Husaybah area. He was responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing attacks against coalition forces. Those attacks include the emplacement of IEDs and mines and the facilitation, production and use of VBIEDs.
* Abu Talha, an AQIZ terrorist cell leader in the Ubaydi area. Talha directed, planned, coordinated and executed terrorist attacks in and around Ubaydi. Specifically, Talha’s cell was responsible for the production, and emplacement, and implementation of IED and VBIED attacks in the area.
* Abu Usama and Abu Salman, AQIZ terrorist cell leaders in the Husaybah area who were active in carrying out local terrorist attacks. Besides planning and conducting terrorist attacks, they procured weapons such as rockets, anti-aircraft missiles and mines for use against coalition forces. The weapons then would be distributed to their terrorist cells to be used in attacks against Iraqi Security and Coalition forces.
To provide information on terrorists, foreign fighters, and former regime members by calling the nationwide tips hotline at 130 (within Baghdad) and 01-130 (outside of Baghdad).
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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS RELEASE, CONTACT THE MULTI-NATIONAL CORPS PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE AT JAMES.CRABTREE@IRAQ.CENTCOM.MIL.
Only one letter off from what I would call him. Throw in an "e" toward the end of that name and you got it.
Good job guys. More Raghads enjoying their time in hell.
[[* Abu Raghad, a senior AQIZ foreign fighter terrorist cell leader who operated in the Husaybah area.]
Abu Raghead????????? HAHAHAHAHA
OVER FLORIDA -- Capts. Nikolas Stengle and Chris Auger drop a joint direct attack munition from their F-15E Strike Eagle on June 13. They are assigned to the 336th Fighter Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Joe Esler)
Ping
Probably a little late in the game to mention this to Mr Chirac and company, but a lot of these more experienced and internationally connected guys come from former French colonies in North Africa. They're very close to France. Probably speak French. They definitely know the nuts and bolts of building an insurgency from scratch.
Did I mention that France is considerably closer to North Africa than Iraq is? Or that there are far more truly radicalized Muslims in France than there are in Iraq? I'd probably want to point that out, too.
Abu Asil, Abu Raghad, Abu Talha, Abu Usama, and Abu Salman.
Dat's a lotta Abu's.
Islamic blowup bump!!
....Dat's a lotta Abu's.....
I think that Abu translates to Scumbag!
Something else about Mr. Chirac's problem; you hear a lot of different numbers about how many muslims there are in France. The official figures range from 4.2 to 5 million out of roughly 60 million (not counting territories and possessions, etc, just continental France); but in these cases, the official figures are always low, to not let the average citizen know how bad the problem is (cf. US immigration).
I did a calculation based on birthrate data. The overall rate is 1.9 births/woman, or 190 live births per 100 women. By law the French hospitals can't record the ethnicity of the woman or child, but the fertility rates are known: 4/muslim woman, 1.5/indigineous Frenchwoman. It's not difficult to figure from there that 84 frenchwomen are having 126 babies, and 16 muslim women are having 64 babies. This tallies with the known fact that 1/3 of the babies born in France now are muslim.
If the above is correct, and it cannot be far off, 16 out of 100 women in France are muslim, and that may be taken as the overall proportion. So we can say: the population of continental France is 16% muslim, or about 9.5 million.
I hadn't expected the fires to start burning like this until the percent had gotten up at least to 20%, say another 5 years. But maybe this is just a warm-up, to extort more benefits, and some concessions on autonomy.
Or a probe, to guage the official response..? Do the AQ people think strategically along those lines?
Dead terrorscum bump!
thanks for heads up.. if you have a ping list, please add me?
I have more time some days than others to check things out.. but always appreciate knowing about good things. I like Gucho's "operation" thread. A pot pourri of info to catch up on the news about the world.
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