[Diogenesis]

BUMP FOR FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Diogenesis]

BUMP FOR FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ed_NYC]

H&K MP5's? -> GERMAN MADE

[cmsgop]

I'll take the Best of Juice Newton on the right there....

[P8riot]

Dio, keep 'em coming. Keep up the good work.

[TomGuy]

Curiously interesting. The sniper does seem to be more than a run-of-the-mill-disgruntled-kid-or-former-employee. He seems to plan each assassination.

[Humidston]

Beware of armies that goose-step BUMP!!!

[neutrino]

Great pictures! Thanks for posting!

[HighWheeler]

Here is a beautiful video of Operation Southern Watch - Anti-aircraft artillery site destroyed. (.mpg 2.5 MB) from September 30th.

Watch as the AAA site fires, then is immediately targeted with the small rectangle by the observing aircraft. The explosion (in part thanks go to Alfred Nobel for developing dynamite) is awesome. No way anyone within 200 yards excaped.

Mash here for video

[Trouble North of the Border]

Wow. Great thread! Makes one feel they one is really there.

Terrorism has been swept under the carpet for too long.

God bless the USA. God Bless President Bush. God Bless the American army.

[cake_crumb]

BUMP for the usual great and VERY enlightening photos...I especially love the ones with the Iraqi "police women" or whatever they are, on parade with that whole "Heil Hitler" going...Saddam's co Nazi and lap puppy Yasser should love that...which brings me to that VERY interesting pic from the PA, with GW holding the La Morte card...VERY interesting, that. Did that come out PRIOR to when the shootings began?

[facedown]

Terrific bump!

[MarineDad]

Thank you once again for an outstanding job!
I'm troubled by the two side-by-side's of Papa Perp; there's just something about it that reminds me of a video clip of "Pants around ankles" Perp X42 leaving a Ron Brown memorial service with buttboy Tony Compolo...

[tet68]

It is you America, you Israel, that clamor for war! We are peace loving Mulims and wouldn't hurt a fly, as long as it believes in Allah.

[aShepard]

Thank you very much!

I hadn't realized that cockroaches came in so many sizes, shapes, and flavors!

[Purdue Pete]

Thank you for what you do! Your pictures always scare the hell out of me, but they are a must see.

[PhilDragoo]

Bump for a regime change in Iraq, Iran, PA, Venezuela for starters.

Isn't that the moderate Irani leader?

Kind of like the moderate side of Arafat's mouth, the English-language version.

For the de-nazification of the Middle East.

God Speed the finest fighting force on earth, and our comrades in arms in Israel, the UK and elsewhere in the free world.

[M Kehoe]

In Lahore, Pakistan, more Islamic supporters who are pro-Taliban.

Just where is Spooky when you really, really need him?

Sorry.

5.56mm

[Diogenesis]

Iraqi Forces Continue Strikes Against Coalition Aircraft

By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2002
Iraqi forces have fired on U.S. and coalition aircraft 122 times since Sept. 16, when Saddam Hussein sent a letter to the United Nations inviting weapons inspectors back into Iraq.

"Of those 122 firings, 33 were against aircraft flying in Operation Northern Watch and 89 were against Operation Southern Watch coalition aircraft," Rear Adm. David Gove, the Joint Staff's deputy director for global operations, said today.

Over the past three years, Gove said, the overall numbers have been "about consistent," Gove said. "There's been a remarkable number since Sept. 16 in terms of near continuous engagements in the northern and southern no-fly zones."

Coalition aircraft respond to the attacks against the shooters, the launch facility, he added, as well as against the integrated air defense system that supports the targeting of coalition aircraft. "We've been very open about (the fact) that we're going to go after the infrastructure and help degrade the capability that targets coalition aircraft whenever they're fired on," Gove said.

Early Oct. 11, he said, Iraqi forces fired upon coalition aircraft and the Joint Task Force Southwest Asia commander coordinated a response. "This was a relatively immediate response," Gove said.

The admiral showed gun camera footage of coalition responses to Iraqi firings this week at a Pentagon news briefing Friday. The first showed an F-16 dropping on a surface-to-air missile launcher. Another showed coalition aircraft dropping ordnance on a mobile air defense radar near al Basra.

Pentagon spokeswoman Torie Clarke noted that some reports out of Baghdad suggested that the coalition aircraft targeted buildings rather than the radar. "This could not be further from the truth," she said. "(The building) was at least 600 feet away."

Gove also reported that U.S. forces in Afghanistan continue to recover weapons. On Wednesday, a Special Forces team operating southwest of Bagram discovered a weapons cache with more than a thousand pieces of unexploded ordinance, including rocket-propelled grenades, 82 mm high-explosive recoilless rifle rockets, 57 mm rockets, 120 mm high- explosive mortars, 107 mm artillery projectiles and M-60 rifle grenades.

Other U.S. forces operating near Kandahar on Wednesday found a cache of a thousand 82mm mortar rounds and 300 multiple rocket launcher rounds. Other service members recovered three truckloads of anti-aircraft machine gun ammo on Thursday at a site in the south central part of the country. They also recovered a weapons cache of 15 SA-7s and three rocket-propelled grenades near Afghanistan's northwestern border with Turkmenistan.

[McLynnan]

Again, thank you very much for bringing the world to me in pictures, and for your thoughtful commentary.