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.
I think you would expect American troops to increase during the surge because they are entering enemy strongholds to engage and destroy them. I would urge not to judge the surge on numbers at least initially. In the long term that would be something to use to judge the success.
Excellent news.
50 rounds 30mm HEDP: $3,750
Two MK-82 500lb JDAMs: $36,000
Ridding the world of yet another Al-Qaeda leader: Priceless
ROFL!
Scott Adams should do a Dilbert strip about a business meeting like this.
I hope so!!!
Definitely not our grandfathers' artillery. From globalsecurity.org:
Excalibur is a family of precision-guided, extended-range modular projectiles incorporating three unique payload capabilities divided into Block configurations. Block I consists of high-explosive, fragmenting, or penetrating unitary munitions to enhance traditional fire support operations with increased range, improved accuracy, and reduced collateral damage against personnel, light materiel, and structure targets. Block II consists of smart munitions to search, detect, acquire, and engage fleeting and short-dwell targets common to open-terrain battlefields. Block III consists of discriminating munitions to selectively identify and engage individual vehicular targets in urban environments by distinguishing specific target characteristics. Excalibur's precision capabilities are intended to be used by Future Combat System (FCS) Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) Cannon units to provide close support to maneuver units in urban or complex terrain. Digitized lightweight 155mm howitzer systems will be used to develop and test Excalibur's capabilities before FCS NLOS Cannon is fielded.
The Excalibur development team combines U.S. guidance expertise with Swedish airframe experience. The projectile will employ Global Positioning System (GPS)-aided inertial guidance and navigation, free spinning base fins, four-axis canard airframe control, base bleed technology, and a trajectory glide to achieve increased accuracy and extended ranges beyond 30 km. The FCS NLOS Cannon will incorporate an inductive fuze setter to transfer target and fuze data to the integral fuze.
Let's Go
Knock-knock.
Who’s there?
Booom! Not you anymore! Loser!
Good one!
YES!
Now they’ve got it.
Bomb the first house and everywhere the cockroaches scatter. Bomb their getaway cars. Bomb their neighbors.
Go get ‘em.
Adios pendejos!
The Democrats (with the single, courageous exception of Joe Lieberman) do not want us to succeed in Iraq. Sadly, the same is true of a growing number of Republicans--RINOs, "mavericks," and assorted craven types with their fingers to the wind. The template has already been formed: Iraq is "a lost cause"; it was based upon "lies"; in any case, there is "nothing worth winning" there. And on and on. Ad nauseum.
Anything that does not fit neatly into this template is simply rejected out of hand by the politicians and the MSM. Or ignored.
Who’s gonna tell the Eastgate Blonde first?
HHC’s husband
SO AM I!
Damn, our guys are great! I wish they had it all on video! I would pay to see it!
LOL!
You decide that this party's going nowhere so you scrape up what's left of Mohammed, his brother Mohamed and his other brother Mohammed and you stick 'em in the car and take off for the local bar. Maybe you can catch the rest of the game there. Then it comes again, a missle right up the tailpipe. You're thinkin' maybe this Jihad ain't what they said in the recruiting posters and then you wake up in Jihad heaven and there they are, your 72 virgins all lined up in burkas. You get on your hands and knees and sorter peek under the first one and like what you see. but then you notice that a necessary appendage is missing, blowed off in the blast. You are now in Muslim Hell.
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