"Bang Bang!"
Posted on 01/10/2007 6:41:14 AM PST by pissant
WE'LL get you. No matter how long it takes, we'll get you. That's the message our special-operations forces just sent to al Qaeda fugitives in Somalia - and everywhere else.
With AC-130 gunships pounding terrorist hide-outs and training sites in the badlands near the Kenyan border, we may have nailed senior al Qaeda figures involved in bombing our embassies in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam. At the very least, we killed some really bad hombres.
As always, terrorist propagandists will claim that only innocent civilians suffered, and media sympathizers will echo their nonsense. Fortunately, though, most pro-terrorist journalists and "human-rights advocates" are preoccupied just now with the awful mistreatment of poor, misunderstood Saddam Hussein.
And the devastation left behind by our gunships is only part of a very big U.S. win:
* Thanks to resolute military action by Ethiopia's government (quietly backed by Washington), the terror regime in Mogadishu crumbled overnight - collapsing the lie that extremist Islam is on the march to an inevitable victory.
* The speed of the Ethiopian advance cornered hundreds of hardcore Islamist fighters in a forlorn backwater, where they can be killed out of sight of their media defenders. And be killed they will.
* Islamist outrages and subversion inspired unprecedented cooperation between moderate Somalis, Ethiopians, Kenyans and Americans.
For its part, the Kenyan government grew sick of Somalia exporting hatred, weapons and terror. Now Kenyan troops have sealed their border so al Qaeda's agents can't escape.
* Far from being a growing threat - as America-haters insist - al Qaeda's on the run. Confident that they had a new refuge in Somalia, international terrorists instead find themselves scrambling to escape justice.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Great headline/article. Trickle down annihilation works!
I know I'm too old, but at times like this I would pay to be back in the Navy, offshore on a destroyer, watching the coastline for "squirters"... duck blind diplomacy, I love it!
TERRORIZING TERRORISTS
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Simply beautiful.
(chuckle) :-)
The new FIRST RULE OF WARFARE: No reporters or photographers in the zone until surrender ceremonies...
"We will hunt you down and kill you."
Peters finally wrote a good piece. The last few I wasn't impressed with.
What I find deliscioiusly ironic is that our commanders in Somalia had specifically requested AC-130 fire support back in '93, and were denied. I've always considered Somalia the scene of Clinton's greatest victory over the US military, and it's good to see that much more of his legacy come undone with the killing of al-qaeda in that God-forsaken place.
"* The speed of the Ethiopian advance cornered hundreds of hardcore Islamist fighters in a forlorn backwater, where they can be killed out of sight of their media defenders. And be killed they will. "
I hope they kill them all.
Its also important to find out where these vermin are coming from and take pre-emptive actions to prevent their development and proliferation.
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Wow! I bet one of those could really ruin your whole day!
Ask, and ye shall receive.
Those massive guns have very high cyclic rates and are also incredibly accurate.
AC-130U Spooky Weapons
One 25mm GAU-12 Gatling Equaliser gun (1,800 rounds per minute)
One L60 40mm Bofors cannon (100 shots per minute)
One M102 105mm cannon (6-10 rounds per minute)
Well, they won't be escaping on boats. We're patrolling the coast.
you and me both buddy, you and me both..
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