Posted on 11/11/2004 2:13:15 PM PST by Pitiricus
American troops scored one of their biggest successes in the battle for Fallujah when an estimated 70 foreign fighters were killed in a massive precision artillery strike on a building in a mosque complex.
Military intelligence officers were last night trying to confirm that a "high-value target" or HVT died in the attack. The man is suspected of being a key lieutenant of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted man in Iraq, and responsible for marshalling hard-line insurgence from other Arab countries.
US marines set up a firing position in a building in Fallujah The strike took place on Tuesday afternoon, less than 24 hours after the invasion of the rebel-held Sunni bastion began, after an Abrams tank commander from Phantom troop, part of the US Army's Task Force 2-2, observed large numbers of men converging on a building next to a mosque. "Guys with short brown hair, dark pants and carrying AK-47s were moving in groups of between two and five across the road to a yellow building," said Lt Neil Prakash, the tank commander...
(Excerpt) Read more at opinion.telegraph.co.uk ...
Anybody know if they have caught any prisoners?
Not anything about that in this report...
already posted, but still worth reading again/
In Fallujah, American heroes seize terrorists, liberate hostage slaughterrooms,
and even free hostages. Here, an Iraqi
was found handcuffed in an terrorist torture chamber
after being kidnapped 10 days ago in Baghdad.
There's some serious MOUT training going on somewhere. Building to building fire, probably hi-tech surveillance, real time intel...nice.
Yeah. Take these scum down, especially if they are hiding in Mosques. Continue to pray for our soldiers.
One of the common taunts from terrorists used to be that Americans are cowards. Are they still saying it?
bttt
REad the whole report...
nick
I'm with you, bud.
I like this article.
It answered the important question of whether a terrorist sniper bounces when he falls from the mineret of a mosque.
I always wondered that myself.
No, we wouldn't want to make them mad at us, now would we? I am so sick of our troops having to turn a blind eye to the murderers who use mosques as a base of operations.
I enjoyed reading the details...
Good article.
These people are cowards. Bush has made it next to impossible for them to have any base of support in any country, therefore it is only a matter of time that they will all be exterminated.
nick
American tanks engage insurgents on the streets of Fallujah Lt Prakash was asked to provide a grid co-ordinate, accurate to within a metre, to minimise the chance of hitting the mosque, about 50 metres from the building.
At about 3pm, the higher authorisation came through and Lt Col Pete Newell, commanding 2-2 and with the call-sign Ramrod 6, gave the order to fire a barrage of 20 155mm high-explosive shells from howitzers about three miles away from the mosque.
Specialist James Taylor, manning the LRAS, watched the burst of shells hit.
"They landed on the left side of the building and I saw three bodies fly into the air," he said. "It was awesome."
Lt Prakash radioed that the rounds were right on target and requested 10 more to ensure maximum killing effect.
"One of the men was in a sniper position on the building," said Lt Prakash. "I saw him fall off, hit the ground and bounce up. There were about five bodies that went three, four, five storeys up in the air. I'd already counted between 40 and 50 men going into that building. There were men running out, coughing and doubling over. The second lot of rounds took them out and all those who had been crossing the road.
This is PC BS when are soldiers are under fire..all the conceern over a d*** building [mosque]...but it was DAMN GOOD WORK TO GET IT DONE right!! We are proud of you all and may God protect you with his Divine shield!!
Only his bodied bounced; his soul proceed straight to Hell.
Here's Lt. Neil Prakash when he was a cadet in ROTC at John Hopkins University:
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