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Brigade finds huge weapons cache (Alaska)
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ^
| October 17, 2005
| TATABOLINE BRANT
Posted on 10/18/2005 3:55:32 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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Good job FT. Wainwright.
To: Jet Jaguar
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posted on
10/18/2005 3:59:22 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: Jet Jaguar
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posted on
10/18/2005 3:59:42 AM PDT
by
King Prout
("La LAAAA La la la la... oh [bleep!] Gargamel has a FLAMETHROWEEEEEAAAAAAARRRRRGH!")
To: Jet Jaguar
That's one cool story.
It'll be seriously unreported by the media leftists.
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posted on
10/18/2005 4:03:30 AM PDT
by
Preachin'
(Enoch's testimony was that he pleased God: Why are we still here?)
To: mtbopfuyn
On Friday it was unclear if anyone was living at the chicken farm or was wounded or detained in the raid.
I hope that when the chicken farmer crawls out of his hole, he will find no chicken farm left.
Great job from Alaska soldiers!
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posted on
10/18/2005 4:04:29 AM PDT
by
armydawg1
(" Amierca must win this war..." PVT Martin Treptow, KIA, WW1)
To: Jet Jaguar
"It took three days to blow up."
Go 172nd Strickers!!
Fireworks indeed!
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posted on
10/18/2005 4:06:14 AM PDT
by
poobear
(Imagine a world of liberal silence!)
To: Squantos; Travis McGee
Does three days sound right to you, to light off this mess -- out in the middle of nowhere?
I think our bowlegged little Italian EOD could have arranged a blow in a lot less time than that!
Hell, we never wanted to hang around a place like that, for that long!
Semper Fi
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posted on
10/18/2005 4:07:27 AM PDT
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: thackney
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posted on
10/18/2005 4:07:58 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
To: river rat
Does three days sound right to you, to light off this mess -- out in the middle of nowhere?
Blowing it all at once would result in artillery projos and rockets flying through the air. Very hazardous to any troops in the area. Smaller piles would be easier to control.
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posted on
10/18/2005 4:13:09 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: Jet Jaguar
...40,000 7.62mm armor-piercing rifle or machine-gun rounds...Standard ball ammunition is OK, but those 7.62mm armor-piercing rifle or machine-gun rounds are REALLY scary. I hear they can penetrate the frontal armor of an M1 tank at two miles!
To: Jet Jaguar
In other words, Freitag explained in his e-mail, "(Mestas) 'hotwired' a backhoe that was on site and began digging."
Ah, Captain? I watched a movie once that showed a car being hot wired. Want me to try it on that backhoe?
Five seconds later hes digging.
American ingenuity at work.
I remember a crewman we had in Viet Nam. Our skipper could never remember the combination to his safe. The crewman opened it in short order with a bootlace.
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posted on
10/18/2005 4:21:34 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: Jet Jaguar
"Brigade finds huge weapons cache (Alaska)"From the title, I thought they found the cache in Alaska!!
I thought this was going to be another anti-gun article about some guy with three guns and 1000 rounds of .22 ammunition and the media breathlessly calling it a "huge weapons cache". Glad to see it was quite the different story, LOL!
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posted on
10/18/2005 4:28:30 AM PDT
by
SW6906
To: Jet Jaguar
This is the stuff that Saddam placed all over Iraq.
I bet there's hundreds of these caches.
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posted on
10/18/2005 4:39:13 AM PDT
by
Beckwith
(The liberal press has picked sides ... and they have sided with the Islamofascists)
To: SW6906
But the
stockpile they unearthed outside a chicken coop...
The LSM should take notice here. The REAL question to ask is if its a "stockpile", was it stored in the proper stockpile formation. You know, must be arranged x by y, and be at least z high. This is according to the International Standards for Stockpile Definitions (a UN organization).
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posted on
10/18/2005 4:40:46 AM PDT
by
C210N
(While DOGS Have MASTERS, CATS Have STAFF!)
To: C210N
The Stockpile Definition specifies that certain dimensions not be reported; in that 40,000 rounds of AK ammo sounds really huge to MSM consumers until you discover that it's 40 small boxes. Many liberal readers will assume it's the size of a Wal-Mart supercenter.
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posted on
10/18/2005 4:47:16 AM PDT
by
Sender
(Team Infidel USA)
To: Jet Jaguar
Putting Saddam out of business also put allot of weapons manufacturers from other countries in dire financial condition.
Blowing up those caches is like blowing up the evidence. Were they legal or illegal purchases under the UN embargoes? If illegal, who manufactured them and who sold them to Saddam?
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posted on
10/18/2005 5:05:51 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: 17th Miss Regt
"...40,000 7.62mm armor-piercing rifle or machine-gun rounds..."
dramatic media description of ammo...
To: Jet Jaguar
Were these munitions left over from the Sadaam era, or were they of foreign origin? Very important question. With the backhoe nearby, the article seems to suggest that these munitions were recently put in the ground. Such a large stockpile of weapons of foreign origin is a huge issue! Iran? Syria? Rusian?
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posted on
10/18/2005 5:09:32 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Support Harriet Miers!)
To: Jet Jaguar
So it looks like even the islamic chickens are stockpiling for a revolt, wait 'til the libs figure this out!
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posted on
10/18/2005 5:12:59 AM PDT
by
redfreedom
(Just a simpleton enjoying the freedoms a fly-over/red state has to offer.)
To: TomGuy; Obadiah
Good questions. Hopefully, more of the story will come out.
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