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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Kills Six Armed Criminals Near Baghdad
American Forces Press Service ^

Posted on 04/11/2008 4:38:27 PM PDT by SandRat

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2008 – A Hellfire missile fired from a coalition unmanned aerial vehicle killed six heavily armed criminals in northeastern Baghdad yesterday, military officials reported.

Officials said coalition forces from Multinational Division Baghdad operating the UAV fired on a large group of criminals with rocket-propelled-grenade launchers and a mortar tube.

In other operations in Iraq yesterday:

-- Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team found a weapons cache in Janabi. It contained a wide variety of ammunition and illumination rounds, propellant, fuses, a hand grenade, TNT and other bomb-making materials. The cache was turned over to an explosives team for detonation.

-- A Multinational Division Baghdad aerial weapons team saw three men at a potential rocket site in northeastern Baghdad. When the men caught site of the team, they fled the scene in a black sedan. But when a UAV showed the criminals returning to the site and confirmed the presence of rockets, the team returned and destroyed three rockets with a Hellfire missile. The criminals fled the scene. The presence of two additional rockets was confirmed at a different site a short time later. The team also destroyed those rockets with a Hellfire missile.

-- In a separate event, a UAV showed a rocket launch site and positively identified a vehicle used in the earlier attack in northeastern Baghdad. The UAV hit the sedan with a Hellfire missile.

-- Iraqi soldiers discovered more than 30 bodies in a mass grave at a house in Mahmudiyah on April 10. Initial reports indicate the remains had been buried for more than a year. The entire house has been declared a grave site, and the Iraqi army is excavating the area.

During operations in Iraq on April 9, soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team discovered a weapons cache in Baghdad’s Rashid district. The cache included multiple mortar rounds and bomb-making materials, rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition, a rocket-propelled grenade with launcher, a sniper rifle, blasting caps, and detonation cord.

Earlier this week in Iraq:

-- Iraqi security forces detained two suspected al-Qaida bomb-making-cell members and one insurgent cell leader in separate operations.

-- The Anbar Counterterrorism Directorate, advised by U.S. Special Forces soldiers, conducted an operation to capture members of an al-Qaida bomb-making cell operating out of the Albu Faraj area of Ramadi. The cell is accused of multiple attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces, including a homemade-bomb attack March 25. The group also owned a homemade-bomb cache found by the Albu Faraj police March 30. Two cell members were detained during the operation.

-- In Mosul, 2nd Iraqi Army Division soldiers, also advised by U.S. Special Forces soldiers, captured the suspected leader of seven "battalions" of insurgents throughout Mosul. His cells are believed to be responsible for bombings and indirect-fire attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces, including two suicide-vest attacks against tactical control points in eastern Mosul on March 13.

(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: frwn; hellfire; hellfiremissiles; iraq; killed; madhi; uav
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1 posted on 04/11/2008 4:40:05 PM PDT by SandRat
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To: 91B; HiJinx; Spiff; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; clintonh8r; TEXOKIE; windchime; freekitty; ...
FR WAR NEWS!
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2 posted on 04/11/2008 4:40:35 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

Good shooting troops! Keep it up !!!


3 posted on 04/11/2008 4:41:52 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: SandRat

I have to say, I love the way American Forces Press Service calls ‘em CRIMINALS right there in the headline!


4 posted on 04/11/2008 4:42:16 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (I'm not voting FOR John McCain -- I'm voting AGAINST Hillary/Obama)
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To: SandRat
Photobucket Have to love technology! Beautiful.
5 posted on 04/11/2008 4:56:40 PM PDT by xuberalles ("Barack Obama: Change Is A Dime Bag!" http://www.cafepress.com/titillatingtees.225246874)
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To: SandRat

“A Hellfire missile fired from a coalition unmanned aerial vehicle...”

What do military coalition markings on a unmanned areal vehicle look like?


6 posted on 04/11/2008 5:06:04 PM PDT by 353FMG (Vote for the Candidate who will do the least damage to our country.)
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To: 353FMG

Don’t know


7 posted on 04/11/2008 5:08:47 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: 353FMG

“If you can read this, you are too close.”


8 posted on 04/11/2008 5:24:36 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: SandRat

“Ahmed, what is that whooshing sound that I ...” transmission ends.


9 posted on 04/11/2008 5:25:36 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: SandRat

Gee, doncha hate it when justice is served??

/sarc


10 posted on 04/11/2008 5:29:25 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: 353FMG

Writing on a Hellfire missile:

“From a Hellfire to Hell”

“If you can read this, you are dead”

Hellfire missile fall down, go boom, end of story, end of terrorists. I love a happy ending.


11 posted on 04/11/2008 6:10:35 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Nervous Tick

Criminals is at least three steps below insurgents and ten below freedom fighters. Criminal implies that there is no idealogical motive to their actions, but rather an anti-social one that makes them no better than a mugger or a rapist.


12 posted on 04/11/2008 6:16:58 PM PDT by appeal2 (Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but great stupidity is reserved for the Gov't)
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To: SandRat

“6 TERRORISTS”

get it right MSM morons...


13 posted on 04/11/2008 6:17:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
“6 TERRORISTS”

get it right MSM morons...

Please go back and see who wrote this and where it came from. Your diatribe is unwarranted.

14 posted on 04/11/2008 6:29:48 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

Okay, political correctness in the armed forces reporting arm.

and buddy, if you think 2 small statements are a “DIATRIBE” you apparently don’t come here that often.


15 posted on 04/11/2008 6:33:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: SandRat; All
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16 posted on 04/11/2008 6:33:59 PM PDT by dighton
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To: 353FMG
Image hosted by Photobucket.com what ever the home country roundel/colors are... in this case our winged-star
17 posted on 04/11/2008 6:46:47 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Perhaps diatribe was a little too strong. I get a little irritated when something appears to be thrown at our troops. Even when in error.

I am the FRWN ping list keeper and with the help of a few good FRiends put up the FRWN threads.

18 posted on 04/11/2008 6:58:53 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

(Is this the one?)

Aerial Weapons Platform Destroys Mortar March 28, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB02DswE-68


19 posted on 04/11/2008 8:43:01 PM PDT by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: appeal2

Very similar to my comment of a day or two ago; we might have hit on the same idea at the same time.


20 posted on 04/11/2008 8:51:52 PM PDT by Humble Servant ( Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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