Photo: Missile Gets Saddam's Sons

NewsMax.com ^ | 8/06/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

NewsMax has obtained a photo straight from Iraq - and the battle between U.S. soldiers and Saddam's now-deceased offspring.

Click the link below to see a photo of U.S. soldiers, in the middle of their firefight with Uday and Qusay.

See the missile in flight, fired from a Humvee in the street.

Notice the spent shell casings on the ground ... there are not that many; there would have been more had we used all our firepower on the murderous scum, proving the fact that we gave them a chance, and when they didn't surrender ... well, they started the fight and we finished it.

[Delmarksman]

So that's what happened to my truck after it was stolen in January. Not Kidding. It was never recovered.

And they left the liftgate open too. Don't they know that's gonna kill my battery? Now I'm really pissed!

[Grassontop]

Who cares what missile got the murderous rapist lunatics! As long as they are both dead, that is all that matters!

May Saddams sons both have a nice hot tub of tar in hell or paradise as they call it. Grassontop

[Arpege92]

LOL

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

CANDYGRAM FOR MONGO.

[TexKat]

U.S. Army soldiers of the 1st Batallion 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Divison search a building during a pre-dawn raid in the city of Tikrit, about 110 miles (180 kms) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on early Thursday Aug. 7, 2003. About 35 men were briefly detained and one was taken into custody for questioning. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

A U.S. Army soldier of the 1st Batallion 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Divison pulls two men out of a building during a pre-dawn raid in the city of Tikrit, about 110 miles (180 kms) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq early Thursday Aug. 7, 2003. About 35 men were briefly detained and one was taken into custody for questioning. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

A U.S. Army soldier of the 1st Batallion 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Divison cuts the nylon handcuffs from one of the men that were detained from a building during a pre-dawn raid in the city of Tikrit, about 110 miles (180 kms) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on early Thursday Aug. 7, 2003. About 35 men were briefly detained and one was taken into custody for questioning. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

A U.S. Army soldier from the 1st Batallion 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Divison escorts a man that was taken into custody from a building during a pre-dawn raid in the city of Tikrit, about 110 miles (180 kms) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on early Thursday Aug. 7, 2003. About 35 men were briefly detained and only this man was taken into custody for questioning. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

U.S. Army soldiers of the 1st Batallion 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Divison search a building during a pre-dawn raid in the city of Tikrit, about 110 miles (180 kms) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on early Thursday Aug. 7, 2003. About 35 men were briefly detained and one was taken into custody for questioning. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

A U.S. Army soldier with the 1st Batallion 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Divison escorts several detainees from a building during a pre-dawn raid in the city of Tikrit, about 110 miles (180 kms) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on early Thursday Aug. 7, 2003. About 35 men were briefly detained and one was taken into custody for questioning. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

A U.S. Army soldier with the 1st Batallion 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Divison guards several detainees taken from a building during a pre-dawn raid in the city of Tikrit, about 110 miles (180 kms) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on early Thursday Aug. 7, 2003. About 35 men were briefly detained and one was taken into custody for questioning. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

U.S. Army soldiers with the 1st Batallion 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Divison photograph several detainees from a building during a pre-dawn raid in the city of Tikrit, about 110 miles (180 kms) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq early Thursday Aug. 7, 2003. About 35 men were briefly detained and one was taken into custody for questioning. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

[TexKat]

African Peacekeepers to Move Into Liberian Capital

By David Clarke

MONROVIA (Reuters) - West African peacekeepers were to advance into the war-battered Liberian capital Thursday as President Charles Taylor prepared formally to announce his resignation.

The arrival of Nigerian troops has brought new hope to a land broken by 14 years of strife and especially to hundreds of thousands of hungry people packed into Monrovia in a sometimes vain attempt to escape bullets, bombs, murder and rape.

The peacekeepers, their numbers raised to more than 450 since Monday, will drive down the 45 km (28 mile) road from the international airport to the coastal city, where more than 2,000 people have been killed in fighting since June.

The Nigerians have armored vehicles to protect them, but guns have largely fallen silent in Monrovia this week and rebels have embraced Taylor's fighters on the front line.

A team of seven U.S. Marines has flown into Monrovia from warships offshore to liaise with the West Africans, but the United States has yet to decide if it will commit ground troops to a country founded by freed American slaves.

The United States has repeatedly demanded that the first step for peace must be the departure of Taylor -- a former warlord accused of fanning years of regional conflict and wanted by an international war crimes court in Sierra Leone.

Taylor had always said he could not go before peacekeepers arrived because of fears that his own volatile fighters -- let alone the rebels -- might run amok in a power vacuum.

Now the peacekeepers are here, Taylor is due to announce his resignation formally Thursday to a joint session of Liberia's houses of parliament before handing over power next Monday.

South African President Thabo Mbeki said he planned to travel to Liberia to attend a ceremony Monday marking Taylor's power handover. He said Taylor had assured him by phone he would fly into exile the same day or the day after.

Rebels have refused to pull back from Monrovia until Taylor leaves the country, although they have promised to hand over the vital port to the peacekeepers so that badly needed humanitarian aid can start to flow.

Food supplies are dwindling in much of Monrovia because rebels have seized food stocks in the port.

Liberians trapped by the fighting are also desperate to see the two sides of the city reunited.

"I want the road to open so I can see if my children are there. Right now I'm worried whether they are alive or dead," said 64-year-old Reverend Isaac Snoh, 64, caught behind rebel lines.

A United Nations multi-agency team arrived in Monrovia on Wednesday to assess the humanitarian situation. The world body has asked governments to donate $69 million in emergency funds for food, clean water and shelter.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"Knock knock, Pizza Hut!! You get a large, medium charge!"

[TexKat]

Sorry about post #86, wrong thread.

[Bulldog1967]

When you care enough to send the very best.

[CyberAnt]

Exactly!

[Slings and Arrows]

AVON CALLING!

[celtic gal]

Now if only the theme to "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte" could only be playing in the background....

[wysiwyg]

I'm relatively sure it's probably just a few pounds

I'll take your word for it. I'm very familiar with the way shaped charges work, and yes, it doesn't take much HE to do a lot of damage.

[Squantos]

Agree......TOW ITOW TOW II into such an open structure is a waste of ordnance IMO.

I can only assume they put some MaDuce and 40MM from the Mk-19 and random 203's into that house before they launched the TOW's or AT-4's. TOW series would produce more than enough spall that would have done the trick also on soft skin baggies.......just seems like overkill from where I sit a gazillion miles away.

Personally I'll stick with my own personal version of what really happened........ A delta trooper slit their friggin throats and eyeballed em with a grin till they bled out........:o)

Up close and personal would have been the best way to remove that filth from this world.

Stay Safe !!

[Reagan is King]

Sweet!

[T'wit]

That struck me, too. They're just standing there, weapons down, no cover -- it's over. Except maybe for some extra target practice -- that's always fun :-)

At least one of the early reports said the bodies were scorched. This sort of thing will do that.

[MinuteGal]

Hey, Q & U......su casa es mi casa.

Leni

[UncleJeff]

Yep, they're just expending ordnance so they won't have to count it...

[exDemMom]

Wow, it looks like those captions were written by the authors of the Madlibs books:

_____________(wartime activity) ________(preposition) a building during a pre-dawn raid in the city of Tikrit, about 110 miles (180 kms) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on early Thursday Aug. 7, 2003. About 35 men were briefly detained and one was taken into custody for questioning. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Otherwise nice pictures.

[happygrl]

If you look closely at the last picture, it appears that prisoner-in-white-boxers pooped his pants.