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US fighter jets launch attacks in western Iraq
KUMA ^

Posted on 07/18/2005 10:38:42 AM PDT by jmc1969

BAGHDAD, July 18 (KUNA) -- US fighter jets launched on Monday air attacks on locations suspected of being hideouts of insurgents in Rawa village, western Iraq.

Both Iraqi and US forces took part in the un-named mission, launched early on Monday.

Eyewitnesses said the US military launched a wide-scale operation in a number of locations in Rawa village, in Al-Anbar constituency.

In another development, Iraqi security forces found a large weapon hideout in Mosul, north of Iraq, an Iraqi official said.

The hideout included a large quantity of missiles, communication devices, military uniforms, knives and swords, the official added.

(Excerpt) Read more at kuna.net.kw ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: airstrikes; alanbar; cas; iraq; mosul; oif; rawa; westernfront
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To: jmc1969

Good. We shouldn't be risking any more American OR Iraqui lives than necessary - if we know where the creeps are holed up, we should take them out with as little risk as possible to the decent people in this game. Pity about the "wedding party," but June is over anyway and they should have known better than to schedule the wedding for mid-summer...


21 posted on 07/18/2005 11:03:14 AM PDT by livius
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To: jmc1969
Both Iraqi and US forces took part in the un-named mission, launched early on Monday.

I wonder if this means that the Iraqi airforce took part? Or if Iraqi pilots were observers in our planes? I haven't heard anything about the new Iraqi armed forces aside from the army. Does anyone know?

22 posted on 07/18/2005 11:05:10 AM PDT by RedRover
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To: bill1952

Al Jazeera's main article today claims that we killed all those kids with an arial bomb the other day.


23 posted on 07/18/2005 11:05:54 AM PDT by Soliton (Alone with everyone else.)
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To: Soliton

Are we in Iraq? I thought we were talking about ROVE!!


24 posted on 07/18/2005 11:12:29 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: Hatteras

LoL! I still get a laugh thinking about that. A sign on a building with big letters in english "BABY MILK FACTORY" in a place that doesn't speak any. That's when CNN was Saddam's al-Jazerra.


25 posted on 07/18/2005 11:32:07 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Wiz; Dog; Coop; Ernest_at_the_Beach

ping


26 posted on 07/18/2005 12:09:34 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (John 6: 51-58)
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To: Soliton

Arial? I didn't know fonts could be so deadly! LOL


27 posted on 07/18/2005 12:11:19 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (John 6: 51-58)
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To: Straight Vermonter

If I could spell, I would have to go to another forum :)


28 posted on 07/18/2005 12:17:46 PM PDT by Soliton (Alone with everyone else.)
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To: Hatteras
Could be mobile baby milk factories.

Sounds like weapons of mass urination.

29 posted on 07/18/2005 12:26:43 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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To: Soliton
I knew at the time that that would be the claim. These people are despicable.
30 posted on 07/18/2005 12:29:23 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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To: Gefreiter
ust as an aside, why do media always specify that it was fighter "jets"?

Only way the dumedia know how to differentiate between fixed and rotary-wing...

31 posted on 07/18/2005 1:59:57 PM PDT by TXnMA (Iraq & Afghanistan: Bush's "Bug-Zappers"...)
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To: jw777
almost forgot we had jets in the region. barely ever hear about it.

USAF isn't needed, just a bunch of wannabe warriors, been told that right here on FR by "supposed" Vietnam marine vet. That being said, nothing lights up the world like airpower, and most ground warriors I know like it when CAS comes in......

32 posted on 07/18/2005 4:51:30 PM PDT by ScreamingFist (Peace through Stupidity)
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To: ScreamingFist

I'd rather have the CAS than have to poke my head out and get it shot off.


33 posted on 07/18/2005 4:56:09 PM PDT by jw777
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To: Allegra; Becki; Cap Huff; Deetes; Gucho; iso; pissant; ravingnutter; Reagan79; SandRat; TexKat

ping!


34 posted on 07/18/2005 5:03:23 PM PDT by Wiz
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To: Wiz
US fighter jets launched on Monday air attacks on locations suspected of being hideouts of insurgents in Rawa village, western Iraq.


Bump
35 posted on 07/18/2005 5:44:03 PM PDT by Gucho
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To: jw777

"almost forgot we had jets in the region. barely ever hear about it."
I assure you there are F18's, and Harriers stationed at Al Asad some miles west of the Euphrates north of Ar Ramadi.
The support all the Marine OPs in Al Anbar. Here is one
example from the Marine OIF web site:
http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/main5/00E665046BC2A12E852570380067D065?opendocument


36 posted on 07/18/2005 8:24:11 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Could be mobile baby milk factories. Sounds like weapons of mass urination.

Or mass lactation?

37 posted on 07/18/2005 11:09:55 PM PDT by neodad (I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way)
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