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...
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Given that EVERY mosque we've ever taken has been used by bad guys for cover, weapons, and mayhem, it's about time that someone in senior command stepped up to the plate and stated that any mosque that housed combattants that resisted would autoatically be deemed a target, and engaged as such...no delays for approval up and down the chain of command..
I hope someone got the action on video;)
Time to finish them off...
Take down the mosque too.
Thank you! You are about the only one who understands this distinction.
Fallujah was nothing more than a Roach Motel for terrorists.
Kill 'em.
Kill 'em all.
Hasn't sounded much like they are bothering to take prisoners.
I ask this hoping that we get info on the top raghead and bottle washer Zarqawi.Other than that I'd like to see em all get high caliber lobotomys.
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