Wow, cool pic. Looks like an angel above the plane.
LBT
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Posted on 06/20/2006 8:44:47 AM PDT by Wiz
Baghdad, 20 June (AKI) - Sources in Ramadi in the restive al-Anbar province report that large groups of armed foreign militants are fleeing towards the Syrian border, as US and Iraqi forces tighten their siege on the city. Ramadi, some 100 kilometres west of Baghdad, is a stronghold of the insurgency and there are reports of many residents also fleeing in fear of an assault. Sources told Adnkronos International (AKI) that local tribes were also pursuing foreign terrorists "because of the immense damage they have done to infrastructure and the bad name they have given the insurgency by terror attacks against innocent civilians."
The sources added that "the armed men are heading towards the highlands near the Euphrates in an effort to find a secure refuge," emphasising that "the murder of the head of the Karabila tribe, Osama al-Jadaan, in al-Mansour last month, by al-Qaeda operators, triggered a vendetta by his relatives and followers."
(Excerpt) Read more at adnki.com ...
Besides, how many "civilians" decide to go for a drive in the middle of a gunfight? After what happened to the two soldiers, do you finally suppose it's time for a little payback?
Prayers up for Chris, who is helping kill the ones who stay, and prayers up for Steve, Tommy, Jeff, Juan, Matthew, James, Brandon, Chad, and Matt as the sums of beaches are heading their way.
Head them off and eliminate them. Use the MOAB like in Afghanistan.
This is not payback for the two abducted 101st airborne. This operation is at the end of a long chess game with many prior moves.
"Look, Abdul! Fireworks! Let's stop a minute and..."
Joining you in those prayers!
I'd rather we kill a lot more than that.
That is an amazing picture. It looks like the Angel of Death suspended in air above the plane.
We probably aren't.
This is a media report. I have yet to see them ever tell the whole truth about events in Iraq. Why should they start now?
I'll say some special prayers for these boys....God Be With Them as they are in Harm's Way
Thanks for the ping...I like the sound of this.
I hope they do this to every town in the Sunni Triangle.
Fortunately for the terrorists our Special Forces guys don't know anything about the routes of egress into Syria. Heh heh...
For behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall.
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 4: 1-3
There are a lot of COP's now along the Syrian border that are waiting for them.
And if they didn't know they were coming (which I doubt), I just emailed them this report.
No, this is better ...
If you use the incident as a reason to relax the ROE on the existing ops, even in-so-far as issuing bacon strips for corpse decoration, power percieved is power achieved.
So if they are fleeing to Syria, why aren't we cutting them off at the pass?
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