Posted on 03/12/2002 2:08:30 PM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS -- OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM 3/12/02
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REPORT FROM THEATRE 1 - AFGHANISTAN
Strike Videos from Whaleback
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DoD News Briefing - ASD PA Clarke and Brig. Gen. Rosa
(Also participating was Air Force Brig. Gen. John W. Rosa, Jr., deputy director for current operations, Operations Directorate, the Joint Staff.)
Clarke: Good afternoon, everybody -- good morning. It has been six months since September 11th, when we were first attacked. And it is always important to
remember what we are about. Our mission is to destroy terrorism around the world, the threat to our security, to our people, to our freedom. We will continue
to seek out and destroy terrorist networks. As the secretary and the president have talked about recently, we will equip and train and help friendly nations
who are seeking to confront domestic terrorist threats. And we will use all the fronts necessary: economic, diplomatic, legal, financial and military.
As we all know very well, this campaign cannot be conducted just by us alone. And yesterday President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld welcomed the
representatives from dozens of coalitions from around the world. And we thank them for their support, for their contributions, for their commitment, and we
will continue to work closely with them as we go forward. And today we welcome the Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov on his first official visit to
the United States.
Russia has been a valuable partner and an ally in the war on terrorism. Minister Ivanov and his team will be here for meetings with Secretary Rumsfeld,
Secretary of State Powell and other officials. He will go the White House this afternoon as we prepare the way for the upcoming summit in May. We thank
them for their support. We're glad they're here.
And I'll turn it over to General Rosa.
Rosa: Thank you.
Good morning. Operation Anaconda continues. With much fewer in number, al Qaeda forces are still holed up in small pockets scattered throughout the area.
In the last 24 hours we've flown more than 180 sorties over Afghanistan and dropped more than a hundred bombs, bringing the total bombs dropped in this
operation to more than 2,500.
Many of you have been asking about an area called "The Whale" or "The Whale's Back" that the secretary referred to yesterday. We've got an area photo of
this area, which provides a nice picture of the terrain we've been operating in and clearly depicts the hill mass you've heard referred to.
Today we have two videos of strikes in support of Operation Anaconda.
The first video's of an F-16 strike from Sunday, March the 10th. The weapon destroyed the cave, which has been identified as occupying al Qaeda troops
(sic).
The final video is of an F-14 strike on an al Qaeda forces dug into the positions near the whaleback. This strike is also from the 10th of March.
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VIDEOS
Dug in al Qaeda positions (mpg 3 MB)
I was just wondering if you had anything new to share with us. Thanks!
God bless and keep our fighting men and all who support them and our allies in this war against terrorists.
What a shame that such a beautiful part of the world is in so much hell because of such insane and evil people that must be exterminated for the good of world peace and freedom.
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