To: Tallguy
Our best platform for cruise missiles is our Navy in the Indian Ocean. You're right, Predators carry only two and only one Predator was reported overhead.
We haven't done a three missile strike in a very long time, Zawahiri only rated two Hellfires last year.
I think we were taking no chances. RUMINT is buttoned up tight all over so I will check again in a few hours and repost.
BTW, 13 Afghans reported wounded in a dorm next to the madrassa, most of the windows broken for over a km. around.
Later.
25 posted on
02/29/2008 10:57:10 AM PST by
gandalftb
(Ruthless action may be only clarity...quickly, awake (Capt. Willard, Apocalypse Now))
To: gandalftb
Thanks for all the info. I don’t know your background but you always have best intel. Keep us up to date.
27 posted on
02/29/2008 11:04:20 AM PST by
A Texan
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To: gandalftb
Sources are down, it’s nightime over there, maybe more very late today.
29 posted on
02/29/2008 11:10:08 AM PST by
gandalftb
(Ruthless action may be only clarity...quickly, awake (Capt. Willard, Apocalypse Now))
To: gandalftb
BTW, 13 Afghans reported wounded in a dorm next to the madrassa, most of the windows broken for over a km. around.I'm sure that these Predator-carried Hellfires have a special warhead replacing the standard package. But this sounds like bigger warheads than 1 or 2 Hellfires can carry. All the evidence points to a cruise missle strike.
40 posted on
02/29/2008 12:35:50 PM PST by
Tallguy
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