U.S. aircraft attack Fallujah (AC130 deployed)

Associated Press via Globe and Mail (Toronto) ^

[Clive]

Go Puff!

Actually, Son of Puff, on steroids.

[DannyTN]

Many families, emerging from their homes for the first time in days, buried slain relatives in the city football stadium.

Football stadium? Somehow I didn't imagine Iraqi's kicking around the old pigskin!!!

[Squantos]

Surgical Professionalism.........Stay safe !

[skeeter]

The president has given our military a free hand in Iraq. Thank God.

[GeronL]

Coalition forces largely left gunmen in firm control in three cities of south-central Iraq and farther south, coalition troops have largely succeeded in taming the uprising, though Italian troops still saw light fighting in Nasiriyah

Their time will come.

The Coalition allowed this Sadr guy to build up a militia, probably funded by Iran... for what reason? Why is the guy still not dead or in custody?

[river rat]

"The AC-130 hit a cave near Fallujah where insurgents took refuge after attacking marines. A laser-guided bomb also struck the cave, said spokesman 1st Lieut. Eric Knapp."

These lunatics still haven't figured out who they're dealing with...

They can't hit and run anymore....we can find them.. We can destroy them...

Semper Fi

[Clive]

Well then deploying Puff does make a statement.

Puff the Magic Dragon should tend to foster clearer thinking on the part of the insurgents.

Even the old AC47 laid down some awesome fire. Spectre has an order of magnitude more firepower and precision.

[Smartass]

[McGavin999]

That is an awesom machine. Especially at night with tracers. Anyone who sees this, and survives, will never forget the sight as long as they live.

[skeeter]

These people do need to be dealt with in no uncertain terms. Nothing less will do.

[McGavin999]

YIKES spell check....spell check....spell check

[Sacajaweau]

bump

[FlyVet]

At a square in the capital where Saddam's statue was toppled a year ago, soldiers took down a new icon: pictures of the radical Shiite Muslim cleric whose followers have risen up against coalition forces in the south.

Communists, dictators, Islamists...they always lift themselves up as a icon, a "god". A portrait on every building, a statue in every square.

[Smartass]

Sorry about the thumb print size!

[sully777]

1st graph talks about a gunship with no detail. 13 graphs of US "hopelessness and defeat" rhetoric in detail. 14th graph returns to a gunship shooting up the place. Bottom of article gives some military detail. Talk about a burning sack of journalistic BS.

Media is going Tet Offensive Part II.

[Travis McGee]

As much as anything, Fallujah is an object lesson for the rest of Iraq.

[AgThorn]

Payback time ...

[Jewels1091]

Remember the story in Afganistan..that it was a female captain on the AC130??? The special forces would have her talk to the taliban and let them know it was a woman that was going to take them out??? Becaue of the way they treated women, she became known as the Angel of Death, and some times all the soldiers had to do to get some out of caves was to say they were going to call on the Angel of Death!!! Wonder if the Angel is flying over Iraq now??

[taxesareforever]

AC-130, now that's my kind of talk. I can really understand that even if the Iraqi insurgents can't. However, they can be taught in one very quick lesson.