Fighters' Camp Hit By Major U.S. Strike

Washington Post ^ | 6/14/03

[Ranger]

RAWAH, Iraq, June 13 -- The scorched cliff side, the charred bulrushes and the burned and bloodied mattresses showed how it started. Here in the desert, 200 miles northwest of Baghdad and 30 miles east of the Syrian border, dozens of anti-American guerrillas were killed when U.S. helicopters swooped in and rocketed the two large tents where they slept.

The attack in the early morning hours Thursday was the most devastating since the war in Iraq officially ended more than a month ago, killing at least 68 fighters. For a day, this bleak landscape was the center of a new, vicious phase of combat between U.S. troops and underground groups and individuals bent on disrupting the U.S. and allied occupation.

[Hinoki Cypress]

I love articles like this; wish they'd happen 2x or 3x a day, every day, weekly.

I love the smell of Vulcan mini-guns in the morning.

[Jeff Head]

Our forces are continuing to Win Iraqi Freedom.

If these Ba'ath loyalists and foreign Jihad fighters continue to attack that effort, they will necessarily continue to die.

[FryingPan101]

" dozens of anti-American guerrillas were killed when U.S. helicopters swooped in and rocketed the two large tents where they slept."

GREAT!!!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Word of the fighting had spread all along the highway from Baghdad to Rawah. Several truck and bus drivers who traverse the route daily hailed the dead as heroes and martyrs. "The Americans are cowards. They shot them in their beds. They should at least fight man to man," said Mohammed Jassem, a gas station attendant at the nearby town of Anah. Ali Dulaimi, a bus driver in the city of Ramadi, 55 miles from Baghdad, cursed and said, "God take revenge on the spy who informed for the Americans."

As if these animals were fighting man to man. How can an animal fight man to man? We squashed them like roaches and I'm happy for it.

[AmericaUnited]

That quote is hilarious. Some little weasal complaining we don't fight like men when his ilk sends 15 year old girls to blow up women and children civilians.

[BenR2]

"The Americans are cowards. They shot them in their beds. They should at least fight man to man," said Mohammed Jassem, a gas station attendant at the nearby town of Anah.

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Tell it to Hamas, a$$h0le!

[Blue Leader]

"The Americans are cowards. They shot them in their beds. They should at least fight man to man," said Mohammed Jassem.

Yeah, and the A-Rabs did not post a perimeter or put out LP's. There was probably nobody awake at the time because they are accustomed to fighting other A-Rabs who are equally proficient at making war. If you want to play with the big dogs, you better learn the game or fold up your tents and slink away.

[Valin]

That's because it's not even a real army. Just a bunch of "sittin around guys" who have absolutly no idea of what war is all about.