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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I'm hoping that since Porter Goss is now at the helm..we will begin to look into things like this.
IIRC the last battleship to sport 8 inch guns was back in the 19th century.
my thoughts exactly
..reporters that describe Bradleys as "tanks".
That's another one that annoys me. I think they probably call the Stryker vehicles and the Marine amphib vehicles 'tanks' too. And how about 'casualties' only meaning those killed.
Of course, that was a very important detail to point out. Meanwhile Margaret Hassan has allegedly been mortally injured.
LOL - Kind of what I was trying to say.
I saw one young woman wearing a "long live falluja" t-shirt on campus last week.
8" guns were common as main armament on cruisers, back when cruisers looked like small battleships.
BTW, the Iowa class BBs, and the previous South Dakota(?) class both had 16" guns ... not sure if anybody used 15" ... Brits maybe? ... the Bismark had 14", and the "superbattleship" Yamato had 18".
Send her there. Let us see what happens to her.
"In warehouse buildings not far from the house, soldiers found a classroom with drawings of U.S. F-16 and F-18 fighter planes, a repair shop for anti-tank rounds and a factory for making car bombs that had a Ford Explorer inside with Texas license plates. A garage with a roll-up door had been turned into a makeshift mosque. "
Run a check on THAT plate.
Let me guess - the vehicle is registered to an owner in Crawford Texas or adjacent county?
Wow, isn't this strange:
In warehouse buildings not far from the house, soldiers found a classroom with drawings of U.S. F-16 and F-18 fighter planes, a repair shop for anti-tank rounds and a factory for making car bombs that had a Ford Explorer inside with Texas license plates. A garage with a roll-up door had been turned into a make-shift mosque.
What in the world would explain that???
Bttt
"Donating your unused car, truck, or SUV to the Palestinian Children's Hunger Project provides you with a valuable IRS tax deduction, and helps save the lives of starving children throughout one of the world's most war-torn regions."
Or maybe they just have an operative working at the Texas DMV. ;)
When they capture Zarqawi, they should Nail his body to the wall outside his "House" then Let AlJazira film it, and show how our army has occupied his HQ and are now conducting operations from Zarqawi's former residence.
Show his dead body rotting in the SUN with a pigs foot stuck in his mouth.
Tell the terrorists that they are all "women prostitutes" if they allow his body to hang like a trophy.
then wait for them to try to cut him down...and then cut them down.
You are absolutely correct.
The 8" naval gun was a product of the 1922 Washington Naval treaty, who limited cruisers to 10,000 tons and gun mounts to a range of 6" to 8".
Three classes of American cruisers had some type of an 8" 55 caliber rifled gun mount.
Other navies had them as well, and the 8 inch gun was also a popular caliber for coastal anti-ship gun batteries for a good chunk of the 20th century.
The current 8 inch gun is commonly referred to as a 230mm gun, and no US Navy ship has one to my knowledge.
Translation:
If they are 8" naval gun shells, and the reporter didnt mess that up too, they are probably pretty old. In modern navies the 8" was replaced by the 230MM.
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