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Video Shows Car Carrying 6 Al Qaeda Leaders Blown Up By U.S. Helicopter
NY Daily News ^
| Dec 26, 2007
| TAMER EL-GHOBASHY
Posted on 12/26/2007 5:49:41 AM PST by RDTF
A grainy videotape released Tuesday shows a carload of important Al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq being blown up by missiles from a U.S. Army chopper, military officials said.
At least one of the dead operatives was a "high-value" target linked to suicide bomb attacks, including the car bombing of the Australian Embassy in Baghdad, an Army spokesman told FoxNews.com.
Of the six men killed in the Sunday attack, one was "believed to be an Al Qaeda cell leader known to facilitate attacks and orchestrate suicide bomb attacks," Maj. Alayne Conway of the 3rd Infantry Division told Fox.
Conway did not release the insurgent's name but said he was arrested Nov. 11 and later released. It is believed he had conducted two attacks on coalition forces, including one on Thanksgiving, Conway said.
The black-and-white 31-second video was shot from the sky and shows a small black sedan idling before it was hit byHellfire missiles shot from an Apache helicopter.
Military officials told Fox that a tip from local Iraqis put the operation in motion.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 3rdinfantry; alqaedainiraq; apache; byebye; hellfire; iraq
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posted on
12/26/2007 5:49:44 AM PST
by
RDTF
To: Jet Jaguar; A.A. Cunningham; Cindy; Oorang; SkyPilot; RedRover; SandRat; freema; StarCMC; ...
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posted on
12/26/2007 5:51:20 AM PST
by
RDTF
(Remember Pearl Harbor)
To: RDTF
Love it! Crispy fried Al Qaeda critter. Which no doubt ol' Zawahiri and the Democrats will denounce as a "war crime" any day now.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
12/26/2007 5:52:37 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: RDTF
Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!..................
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posted on
12/26/2007 5:52:42 AM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: RDTF
Obviously, it was as Allah wished.
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posted on
12/26/2007 5:52:53 AM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: RDTF
Guess what Santa stuffed down their chimney...
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posted on
12/26/2007 5:55:08 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: RDTF
Fantastic! They can’t run, and can’t hide.
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posted on
12/26/2007 5:56:13 AM PST
by
RedRover
(DefendOurMarines.com)
To: RDTF
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posted on
12/26/2007 5:57:09 AM PST
by
xtinct
(I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
To: RDTF
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posted on
12/26/2007 5:58:58 AM PST
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: RDTF
Bye, don’t forget to write.
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:00:26 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(Merry Christmas, FReepers)
To: RDTF
A Christmas present from the US Army!
“Firing. One Fox.”
shhHHHOOOOOM
“Good Missile.”
I’ll say it was a “Good Missile”!
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:01:03 AM PST
by
Bat_Chemist
(The devil has already outsmarted every "Bright".)
To: Dumpster Baby
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:01:21 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(Merry Christmas, FReepers)
To: RDTF
They’ll feel that in the morning.
To: RDTF
Ain't HiTech Great!
Wham! Bam! Mohammad Man!
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:02:39 AM PST
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
To: RDTF
Hellfire: When you care enough to send the very best.
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:03:50 AM PST
by
CholeraJoe
("At last my arm is complete!" Sweeney Todd)
To: RDTF
Surge continues to fail. Surge making no progress. We are still losing the war effort. We must pull out. Signed: Dingy Harry
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:03:52 AM PST
by
RetiredArmy
(Better prepare, come Nov 08, we have a Marxist Commissar President and Marxist Congress.)
To: RDTF
You know your movement’s in trouble when your dead can’t draw a decent car swarm.
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:04:52 AM PST
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
To: RedRover
who’d of thunk it - Al Qaeda in Iraq?
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:05:09 AM PST
by
RDTF
(Remember Pearl Harbor)
To: wastedyears
Missile balloons make your car exciting!!
These are kind of old, but they're still cool so you should get some. They're 4-foot-long mylar missile shaped balloons that you fill with helium and tie to your car to make it look awesome. And what's even more awesome? The real bullet holes the cops will put in your car if you actually try using them.
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:17:06 AM PST
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: RDTF
Sheeesh, we can send super sharp images from anywhere in space but we can’t get some good, sharp shots from Iraq! What’s wrong here?
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