Al Qaeda materials found in raid (IRAQ)

CNN.com ^

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U.S. forces operating in the Sunni Triangle -- the region of Iraq most loyal to captured Saddam Hussein -- found a significant weapons cache that included al Qaeda literature and videotapes, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

Members of Task Force Ironhorse discovered the material Monday morning at a site in Samarra, about 65 miles north-northwest of Baghdad. Some of the items were found hidden in a false wall, the military said.

In addition to the al Qaeda literature and videos, the troops found nearly 8,000 rounds of ammunition; 160 mortar rounds and six mortar tubes; 43 rocket-propelled grenade launchers and 79 rocket-propelled grenades and 19 AK-47 assault rifles, as well as dozens of other weapons.

The military also said a significant amount of C4 and TNT explosives material was found, as was material to make improvised explosive devices -- the crudely made bombs that have killed or maimed dozens of coalition troops. (Full story)

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This was initially part of the bombing story. Notice how CNN makes it a sub-category rather than its own story. The liberals told us that Al-Qaida did not operate in Iraq. And this was in the Sunni Triangle, not some BFE mountain region bordering the Kurds.

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My bad. They reposted the same article from yesterday. Oh well.

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I'm taking bets on who will be the first to claim the material was planted by the Bush Administration.

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Will it be DU or a paleo?

That's the real bet.

BTW - Loved the flight sim Falcon 4.0. I ought to see if it will run on my new Windows XP desktop. There is something to be said for a flight sim that includes enemy pilots who eject from planes and lets you take `em out while they're riding the parachute down.

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I thought I was the only one who did that?!

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I've hit more than a few pilots who had bailed out of their chutes.

That is a good benchmark to test the realism of a game.