Posted on 07/17/2007 2:05:27 PM PDT by mdittmar
BAGHDAD — The top target for al Qaeda in Iraq south of Baghdad was killed July 14 in Arab Jabour by precision-guided munitions, the Excalibur.
Shortly after 12 p.m., 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, received a call that Abu Jurah and 14 anti-Iraqi forces were meeting at a house in Arab Jabour.
Abu Jurah was an AQI cell leader and was responsible for improvised explosive devices, vehicle-borne IED and indirect fire attacks on Coalition Forces in Arab Jabour.
At approximately 1:12 p.m., the house was positively identified allowing 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment to fire two Excalibur rounds destroying the meeting house.
An unmanned aerial vehicle observed persons leaving the house, loading injured individuals into a sedan and fleeing the scene.
An AH-64 Apache helicopter engaged the sedan destroying it.
Three people were observed running from the meeting house to a nearby house.
A U.S. Air Force F16 Fighting Falcon dropped two 500-pound GPS-guided bombs on the second house.
another innocent “unarmed civilian” killed and being added to anti-war stats
If you are Al Qaeda in Iraq, all it takes now is a phone call, and you get turned into pink mist. And if by some chance you get away, the eyes in the sky follow you and you still get turned into pink mist. That has to be pretty demoralizing.
There is no difference from the Mujahideens from or in Egypt, Bosnia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi, Chechnya, or even Kosovo. It is all part of the Islamic Jihad. Militant Islam is the organization, not AlQaeda.
An AH-64 Apache helicopter engaged the sedan destroying it.
Three people were observed running from the meeting house to a nearby house.
A U.S. Air Force F16 Fighting Falcon dropped two 500-pound GPS-guided bombs on the second house.
This begs for some background music. Something cheery, like maybe the Cars' "Hello Again." Or maybe something a little darker. "Enter Sandman"...
I would say those Islamo-facists have had a really bad hair day! When your hair gets burned off your head and body parts, chances are you ain’t gonna want make bad anymore-if you live through it, that is....I’ll bet their lil’ turbans got toasted too! Great story.
bttt
Right. Did those people in the 2nd house have ACLU lawyers provided for them before the strike?
And I mean it.
Well if you happen to find out be sure to not go anywhere near the offices of CNN or The NY Times as I am sure they would love to tell the World (right after they finish up the stories on any collateral damages resulting from this strike.)
Nice shot!!!!!!!!!!!! Good guys win again!!!!
I'd be interested in them getting more of it.
wait a couple days/ the NY Slimes will print it and then you will know = and so will the terrorists - and we'll have to come up with something new and the interim, more of our boys will suffer
Damn straight
It takes a pretty amazing command and control infrastructure to make that sort of integrated operation work. You're right: it is very impressive.
You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again;
You got to hidey-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.
Now that’s the kind of “detainment” I like
—Or maybe something a little darker. “Enter Sandman”...—
Or “Killing an Arab” by The Cure.
What to Tomahawks cost?..$1 mill+ each.. you could get 1,000 of these rocket shells for a BB...and the cost differential would pay the bill to refit the ship..
Pretty amazing weapon. These things can be fired to within 10 (and more typically 5) meter accuracy over a range of just shy of 40 km = 25 miles!
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