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Troops find car-bomb factory in assault 200 miles west of Baghdad (100 foreign fighters captured)
journalnow.com ^ | June 18, 2005 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/17/2005 9:45:35 PM PDT by jmc1969

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To: Allegra

NICE E-Mail from my Sister son-- a good info about M-1114 humvees---a normal mission and new acronyms



Hey everyone, just thought I would write and tell everyone
that I am allright, it is getting hot over(heat and insurgency) with the heat index it was up to 119 degrees, then with the 40lb IBA vest on, when you take it off , you are covered in sweat. We have been having a couple of long days. Had a VCIED(Vehicle Concealed Improvised Explosive Device)go off the other day in Echo Troops area. A VCIED is a car bomb without an occupant in the vehicle, unlike the VBIED, they come up with new acronyms everyday. Anyway we was out patrolling and we heard it go off and we went to see if anyone needed help, the VCIED went off 10ft from a humvee, I feel better with these M-1114 humvees now. No one got seriously injured in the vehicle, except for their eardrums, but the vehicles armor protected them. The injuries came from the vehicle that was 20ft away, a soldier got schrapnel in his arm. We MEDEVACed him to the hospital in the green zone.









41 posted on 06/18/2005 7:09:45 AM PDT by ralph rotten
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To: jmc1969

YeeeeHaaaawww!! Toast 'em.


42 posted on 06/18/2005 7:11:48 AM PDT by sandydipper (Less government is best government!)
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To: Wiz

That is so nice to hear 100 less and one car-bomb factory less.


43 posted on 06/18/2005 7:16:00 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: sandydipper

It seems that the terrorists are now staying together in larger groups to protect themselves and to hold enough power over an area.

They can't operate in groups of two or three anymore because Iraqi locals will take them out. The terrorists only hope is to have enough AK-47-touting comrades around to maintain the bully/gang posture.

This is how Fallujah, Ramadi, al Qaim and some Baghdad neighborhoods became safe havens.

This leaves the Marines with identifiable large number targets to go after which is what we are seeing now, larger operations and larger captures.


44 posted on 06/18/2005 7:20:04 AM PDT by JustDoItAlways
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To: Allegra
The "Iraq-is-a-Failure-We're-in-a-Quagmire" crowd will be deeply saddened to hear this.

This is BIG!!

The Quagmire/isolationist guys will ignore it. Doesn't fit the 'disaster' template.....

I'm tempted to ping a couple of them and see how they contort and distort to say it doesn't mean anything.

45 posted on 06/18/2005 7:34:43 AM PDT by ohioWfan ("If My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray.....")
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To: ohioWfan
I'm tempted to ping a couple of them and see how they contort and distort to say it doesn't mean anything.

Do it! Do it! (she said, with little horns springing up on her head...)

Ping 'em to all the other articles about the terrorist butt-kicking that has gone on in Iraq today as well...;-)

46 posted on 06/18/2005 7:39:02 AM PDT by Allegra (But It's A Dry Heat...)
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To: jmc1969

Our boys have sure been busy lately. Nice work.


47 posted on 06/18/2005 7:43:30 AM PDT by GVnana
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To: Allegra; The Old Hoosier; Austin Willard Wright; alnick; Matchett-PI
Iraq is NOT a 'disaster' BUMP!!!

(One of the quagmire spokesmen has been banned, Allegra, so I couldn't ping him. :o)

48 posted on 06/18/2005 7:47:57 AM PDT by ohioWfan ("If My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray.....")
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To: Robert_Paulson2
Yes, shortly after you ask them privately and individually whether they would like to save themselves from their otherwise certain death by spilling the beans regarding everything they know of Al-Qaeda, the Baathist insurgency, and anti-US or anti-new-Iraqi government activities.

For the willing talkers, depose them, check the stories, debrief them again as necessary.

March each of them out among a bunch of their own freshly dead comrades. Follow them at a distance of fifteen paces with a side-armed US soldier. Leave an apparently loaded (but not) AK-47 plainly visible, and for those who pick it up and pull the trigger, aiming to shot the soldier, waste 'em.

For the non-trigger pullers, and those not leaders or instigators, who should probably be sent to Gitmo, deliver them in person to their respective ambassadors to the US, saying, that if any of these are again found fighting against the US, we'll consider it an act of war by their country, and should that happen, their mother country may face swift reprisal from the US.

HF

49 posted on 06/18/2005 7:49:17 AM PDT by holden (holden awnuhnuh truth, de whole truth, 'n nuttin' but de truth)
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To: CitizenM

Great graphic and tagline!


50 posted on 06/18/2005 7:59:59 AM PDT by Mr Cobol (extremism, in the defense of liberty, is no vice. Barry AUH2O.)
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To: kayak

Thanks for the good news ping.

The Iraqis should test those rigged cars with some of the captured insurgent leaders strapped in them via remote control in safe desert.

The Iraqis could Super Glue as many low level captured insurgents to the inside and outside of the "test" vehicles.

After each successful "test" send in a herd of wild boars to clean up the mess.

Video tape the results and run them several times each day.


51 posted on 06/18/2005 8:01:09 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 5 decades.)
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To: varmintxer

Thank ye muchly. Although I lifted the two graphics from somewhere else and put them together. And I lifted the quote from Pope John Paul, II. So I guess I can't claim credit for anything! LOL


52 posted on 06/18/2005 8:11:52 AM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: Allegra
The "Iraq-is-a-Failure-We're-in-a-Quagmire" crowd will be deeply saddened to hear this.

Yeah - but we're not!!!

YIPPPEEE!!!

53 posted on 06/18/2005 8:12:46 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (I'm not feeling sexually harassed!!!)
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To: Dashing Dasher
YIPPPEEE!!!

They've been kicking butt all over the country today. Baghdad's been noisy as all get-out with helicopters of varying sorts flying all over town. But they nailed a BUNCH of scum.

I've alerted the cooking staff at Camp Victory to be on the lookout for Faith...heh, heh... ;-)

54 posted on 06/18/2005 8:23:54 AM PDT by Allegra (But It's A Dry Heat...)
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To: Allegra

Did you ping her?

She loves good news!!!

/sarc


55 posted on 06/18/2005 8:25:34 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (I'm not feeling sexually harassed!!!)
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To: jmc1969

Gee, I thought that all of this terrorism was "insurgents" as the MSM reports 24/7 - (/sarcasm/


56 posted on 06/18/2005 8:28:04 AM PDT by zerosix
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To: Dashing Dasher; faithincowboys
Did you ping her?

Let's. ;-)

Hey, Faith, American and Iraqi troops have been kicking terrorist butt all over Iraq today.

Sorry to spoil your weekend. (NOT.)

57 posted on 06/18/2005 8:42:28 AM PDT by Allegra (But It's A Dry Heat...)
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To: Allegra

LOL~~~

Nice work!


58 posted on 06/18/2005 8:49:37 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (I'm not feeling sexually harassed!!!)
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To: Wiz
Troops find car-bomb factory in assault


Bump - Good news.
59 posted on 06/18/2005 8:53:40 AM PDT by Gucho
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To: rlmorel

The story will be along side the Durbin saga.


60 posted on 06/18/2005 8:54:15 AM PDT by bert (Rename Times Square......... Rudy Square. Just in.... rename the Washington Post March??)
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