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1 posted on 11/04/2002 2:40:09 PM PST by Pharmboy
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HUGE WAS ON TERROR SALUTE!!!!!! BUSH SHOULD MENTION IT ON THE STUMP TONIGHT IN TEXAS!

PERHAPS RON KIRK WILL COMPAIN THAT IT WAS A "WHITE AIRCRAFT" WHICH DID THE ATTACK.

2 posted on 11/04/2002 2:42:14 PM PST by montag813
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Wow, six threads on the same thing.
3 posted on 11/04/2002 2:43:03 PM PST by Abcdefg
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Talk about your direct HIT!!! Just a black smudge in the desert, you sailor-killing goobers.
4 posted on 11/04/2002 2:43:43 PM PST by Deb
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Nice to see CIA is back in the garbage disposal business... ;)
5 posted on 11/04/2002 2:44:08 PM PST by hchutch
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Here's an excerpt from the press release regarding the 21 Feb 01 test at which the photo in your post was taken:

RQ-1 PREDATOR® HELLFIRE MISSILE TESTS “TOTALLY SUCCESSFUL”

Aerospace history was made Feb. 21 with the successful launch of a live missile from an unmanned aerial vehicle. The Air Force’s Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) program is evolving from a non-lethal, reconnaissance asset, to an armed, highly accurate tank-killer, according to senior program officials from Air Combat Command (ACC) at Langley Air Force Base, Va., and Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) here.

“Capping a three-part series of demonstration flight tests on Feb. 21, Predator successfully aimed and launched a ‘live’ Hellfire-C, laser-guided missile that struck an unmanned, stationary Army tank on the ground at Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Airfield near Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.,” said Major Ray Pry, Predator program manager, Big Safari Program Office at ASC’s Reconnaissance Aircraft System Program Office (SPO).

“Flown by two ACC crew-members, a pilot and sensor-operator from the 53rd Test and Evaluation Group at Nellis, who were located in a nearby Ground Control Station (GCS), Predator launched the missile using Line-of-Sight (LOS) communication, inflicting heavy damage to the tank,” Major Pry said. The final flight, part of a Phase I feasibility demonstration that began in August 2000, was preceded by two similar, completely successful Hellfire launches on Feb. 16 and earlier on Feb. 21, according to the major.

“This first recorded missile launch from a UAV took place on Feb. 16 at approximately 11:05 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT),” he said. “Equipped with a single, inert Hellfire-C missile, the Predator, using its LOS communication band and infrared ‘Kosovo’ laser-ball, aimed and struck the tank-turret about six inches to the right of dead-center, spinning the turret around about 30 degrees. It made a big, gray dent in the turret— just beautiful.”


11 posted on 11/04/2002 2:45:54 PM PST by jpthomas
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seen with a Hellfire-C laser guided missile under one wing

Hellfire I and II. The last one being experienced by the Jihadists as we speak.

12 posted on 11/04/2002 2:46:56 PM PST by Lent
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Sounds like an intentional leak.

Yeah, we did it. We cried two tears in a bucket...
Plus, we did it with an unmanned craft.

I think we just sent a message to a few axis of evil nations.

Now for ten more of these little "hits" just to drive the point home.

18 posted on 11/04/2002 2:51:18 PM PST by Rad_J
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Outstanding. Now where can I get my hands on one of those Predators; they'd make the morning commute that much easier?
19 posted on 11/04/2002 2:52:15 PM PST by steveegg
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When you care enough to send the very best:


22 posted on 11/04/2002 2:54:55 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
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John O'Neill--The Man Who Knew--a guy who was "too agressive" in his Yemen search for the Cole killers and who was "not allowed" back into Yemen by the lib clymer Ambassador , Barbara Bodine, is tossing back a heavenly triple-shot of whiskey today.

O'Neill became Head of Security at the World Trade Center after being nudged out of the FBI for ruffling too many Yemini feathers in his "sharp elbows" Cole investigation in-country.

His body was found in a wrecked stairwell of the Soth Tower on 9/11.

This surgical strike in Yemen has "In Memoriam" written all over it.

24 posted on 11/04/2002 2:55:07 PM PST by henbane
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BULLSEYE


31 posted on 11/04/2002 3:00:19 PM PST by xrp
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35 posted on 11/04/2002 3:02:25 PM PST by SouthernFreebird
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Hell yeah! This is how you deal with terrorists... Hellfire missles not tribunals!
36 posted on 11/04/2002 3:04:46 PM PST by glocker23
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SWEET !
41 posted on 11/04/2002 3:09:10 PM PST by Maynerd
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Great news - celebrated with the Prez at DancingBush.com.
42 posted on 11/04/2002 3:09:35 PM PST by NewYorker
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I just don't know about all these conspiracy theories! Now the poor CIA is being blamed for an unmanned drone missle attack.

For all we know, it was a simple case of 6 terrorists on their way to a camel convention, and someone OD'ed on viagra along the way!

...You've got to get those dosages printed in pictorials!

46 posted on 11/04/2002 3:12:23 PM PST by Radical Poet
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That's the way uh-huh, uh-huh; I like it uh-huh, uh-huh!
50 posted on 11/04/2002 3:14:53 PM PST by WilliamWallace1999
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Arrest the SNITCH.
55 posted on 11/04/2002 3:17:55 PM PST by PoorMuttly
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Too bad it was so painless. Getting hit in the face with a Hellfire missile is probably the best way to go.
58 posted on 11/04/2002 3:19:59 PM PST by LibWhacker
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The Commie News Network (CNN) are reporting that this was "delicate" and we have to be careful not to upset the people where Bin Laden's family lives.....sheeez.
64 posted on 11/04/2002 3:31:55 PM PST by TheLion
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