Posted on 11/18/2004 6:05:52 AM PST by Quilla
NEAR FALLUJAH, Nov. 18 -- U.S. soldiers discovered a house in southern Fallujah on Thursday believed to be a main headquarters for Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of an insurgent network responsible for bombings, kidnappings and beheadings across Iraq.
The soldiers found letters reportedly written by Zarqawi to his lieutenants, medical supplies from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the International Red Cross and boxes of ammunition from the Chinese and Jordanian armies.
The house, a simple cement structure, was on a block that Army Maj. David Johnson described as a "one-stop-shop for terrorists."
"That part of town is the most dangerous place on earth," said Johnson, a historian attached to 1st Infantry Divison's Task Force 2-2, which conducted the raid.
U.S. military officials have said they do not know where Zarqawi is or whether he remained in the city when American and Iraqi ground forces swept in the night of Nov. 8.
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You're right. My mistake. Iowa and SD and North Carolina classes all had 16 inchers.
(Caliber, in this context, refers to the bore length, measured in multiples of the bore diameter. A 16"/45 caliber gun has a 720" barrel; a 16"/50 caliber has an 800" barrel.)
If memory serves, the last ship in commission anywhere with 8" main armament was the Argentine battleship (formerly US Navy heavy cruiser) Belgrano. The Royal Navy introduced her to modern submarine torpedoes, and she currently resides at the bottom of the south Atlantic ...
Yes. Our guys have gotten close. Got to stay patient as they keep at it.
I don't do patient...:-)
No way. Cut off his limbs first. Then let a female Marine cut off his 'manhood', and then behead the MFer.
I try to fake it.
Stolen perhaps, from a Hallitburton employee? Or taken from one of the many hostages they killed, who where not soldiers?
I'd rather see him captured - we don't need anymore charges of "murder" to deal with.
I believe that was in Tennessee, particularly Memphis (shortly after 9/11). I remember later on they found this woman dead, in a burning car. I never did hear any more about it. Makes you wonder whether is was the good guys or the bad guys who got her. Then there was the story of a Middle Eastern truck driver who was arrested in east Tenn. I believe, driving a big rig erratically on some country road. Never heard more about that. There's so much that goes on that is not revealed (for better or worse, I dunno).
HMS Hood was of that misbegotten species known as the "battlecruiser"
Misbegotten is the word for it. Hood vs Bismarck was just plain stupid (or desperate). The British battlecruisers didn't fair too well at Jutland either....something wrong with those ships that day.
Some time ago, early 90s, LoJack opened up service in Columbia. When the system was turned on it picked up on a dozen or so signals from cars stolen in the U.S.
Actually, all light and heavy cruisers used 8 inch shells. There were more than a few that were in service into the 70's. There were some that operated off of the coast of Vietnam, and my best friend's father (when I lived in Yokosuka, Japan as a kid) was the commanding officer of one of the heavy cruisers (Possibly the Oklahoma City...)
It is possible that these shells may have been stolen from various naval installations around the world. When I was a kid, they had acres of these surrounded with chain link fence, which we climbed over occassionally.
Bzzt. CLs had 6-inch guns.
An additional note: recent battleships on active duty (early ninties) used 16" shells manufactured in the 1930's. These things have a very long shelf life.
I stand corrected on Light Cruisers. Not many of them served into the sixties, though, I don't think. We kept some of the heavies around.
Nah... our Military doesn't quit just because GWB isn't on the front lines with them.
Yep. She was the only nuclear cruiser as well. The Chicago and the Albany also got port-and-starboard open 5-inch mounts. It was my first duty station on Chicago. Those steel seats were like ice cubes at extended GQs and they didn't have seat belts (and I weighed about 120 pounds at the time - and oh, my, that water looked cold). I got a real thrill when I read "USS Wasp" on the mount. That thing had been places.
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