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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And the article said we found a box of passports and I.D.'s as well as a Ford Explorer with Texas license plates. No doubt by the time we read this article the owner of that plate is being hunted,unless he was with the terrorists there and already dead!
and again, just for fun
Dan Rather, please call your insurance agent concerning your stolen SUV claim.
Well, said a soldier who didn't want to be identified, we didn't find anyone alive. And if they were alive, they aren't now, but we still didn't find them alive. Honest.
The soldiers also found crutches, and eight-inch artillery shells made for battleships.
Let's see how many factual errors I can find in this statement.
No country but the US has had a 'battleship' in commission since I believe the 50s. The US Navy decommissioned the last several years ago. That battleship had 15 inch and 5 inch guns, plus cruise missiles and assorted other weapons. No other non-battleship ship in the US Navy, or any other that I know of, has 8 inch guns. In fact few modern navy ships have anything more than or bigger than a single 5 or 6 inch gun which is rarely used. Modern navy ships have used primarily missiles for quite awhile now. Etc., etc.
It really annoys me when these media types call any war ship they see a 'battleship'. It's symptomatic of their generally total ignorance of all things military, modern or historic.
Florida and Texas have continued to be mentioned in the ongoing war against terror. I recall after 9/11 reading there was a terrorist who had been in TX for a long time and working as a doctor.
My son's truck was stolen at last year's Auburn-Alabama football game. It was never recovered and investigators with Auburn's P.D. stated exactly what you posted. The truck was more than likely driven to Mexico and stripped or shipped elsewhere.
I wonder if zarkawi can catch a 2000 lbs blockbuster, or a 155 how shell.
Can anybody say
INCOMMING!
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Never mind the headquarters. I want the head.
Perhaps not "naval 8-inchers" but M-110 series of SP Guns? 203MM. I know we provided such to Israel. Perhaps Egypt?Iran (under Shah)? These SP guns come from the VN era.
Who said it was stolen?
Sounds like a reason to have a Texas Bar-B-Que to me.
Amen...
bttt
What in the world would explain that???
There's a big black market operation that involves stealing SUVs and other luxury cars in the US and Europe and shipping them to the Middle East for re-sale. That may explain it.
"I hope the marine who captures this pos has a big ol rambo knife on him. If he's quick enough it would be all over before anyone could react. I would be proud to stand guilty before a war crime tribunal."
That knife would likely be a KABAR which preceeds the "rambo" knive by quite a while as the fearsome dealer of destruction!
God Keep the Marines!
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Perhaps not "naval 8-inchers" but M-110 series of SP Guns? 203MM. I know we provided such to Israel. Perhaps Egypt?Iran (under Shah)? These SP guns come from the VN era.
At least that's feasible. Where in the world did the reporter get the nonsense about 'shells made for battleships'? Maybe the Marines were pulling his leg and wondering if he'd actually print it? In that case, I would have told him they were made for submarines.
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