[gonzo]

Poor Will! That poor bastard has been getting it for years!...FRegards

[riri]

This is the first good news I ´ve heard in a long time.

[blam]

Targets of opportunity.

[EricT.]

The AC-130, which can loiter over targets for hours and lay down withering fire from heavy machine guns and cannons

I can't imagine having one of those things hosing me down for hours. Urban renewal and field plowing all in a highly mobile platform.

[longleaf]

The Red Cross said each of five warehouses in its compound was marked on the roof with a large red cross. The raids occurred at about 1 p.m., in daylight, the agency said.

I was listening to the BBC World Service about an hour ago and the female anchor was really playing this up. She interviewed a retired U.S. general and was really giving him "what for" over it. He handled her hysteria really well, I thought.

I suppose our crew thought it was another "baby milk factory." I can't believe they really didn't see the large red cross from the air in broad daylight, but maybe they are still mostly bombing from three miles up like in Yugoslavia.

[lawdog]

RE: The Red Cross buildings. These Taliban mopes are probably hiding military assets in these buildings, many of them are reported hiding in the mosques believing they will be safe because of pc "rules of engagement".

Like Joker said, " If your gonna make an omelette your gonna have to break a few eggs!"

Why are there no Wal-mart Stores in Afghanistan ?

Because there is a target on every corner!

[rockfish59]

now give the airline pilots the same power!

[browardchad]

"kill zones" -- that has a certain ring to it.

[SpottedBeaver]

Dang, John. You're all over the place. Are you sure you are not Tourist Guy? Posting 24/7.

Anyway, this is good that we are opening up fire on anything that moves. Pop 'em when they look outside their holes.

[hillsborofox]

good.

[ken21]

why would america's premier newspaper use an apostrophe in the following?

AC-130's

[Mulder]

American pilots have for the first time been freed to choose their own targets and fire at will within specific zones around Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan

Good! It's about time.

[Dan Day]

But even as the Pentagon continued today with an intense bombardment that began on Monday with almost 100 planes striking 12 areas across the country, American bombs struck and badly damaged a compound a little more than a mile from the Kabul airport, where the International Committee of the Red Cross was storing food and shelter materials for the war-ravaged population. An Afghan guard was wounded.

BFD.

[Dan Day]

The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, which left its home port in Japan last month without a full complement of fighter jets, has now been loaded with helicopter-borne special operations forces and is prepared to enter the campaign, should the order be given.

Yeah!! I had been wondering what the empty Kitty Hawk's role was to be. Now we know.

Something tells me a carrier full of special forces and their helicopters will be more deadly than any carrier with its usual complement of jets.

[higgmeister]

Who is Will? Is he related to Waldo?