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NBC NEWS: CHEMICAL ALI KILLED IN IRAQ RAID
NBC NEWS | 4-5-2003 | NBC

Posted on 04/05/2003 3:36:14 PM PST by SHKMAN1212

NBC News is reporting that F-16s dropped two precision-guided bombs on the residence of "Chemical" Ali just south of Basra. The Pentagon is telling them that they believe Ali was in his home at the time and was killed during the strike. They caution that they need to have confirmation on the ground to be sure, but it sounds like a good hit!


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ali; basra; chemical; chemicalali; decapitation; iraq; warlist
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To: putupon
..." I am a little disappointed though, can't we find someone to drop one of those new-fangled MOABs on? I am realy anxious to see one of those suckers go off over some bad guys' heads, before they all gone."

I understand there is a huge radius to those things...very indiscriminate, and an even wider area of shock wave. Perhaps they are just too dangerous to use effectively, without endangering our own troops? I'm just guessing. I also understand the Beduins (desert nomads) like us, and are peaceful folk, and we are trying not to hurt them.
Maybe that's why we haven't used them? (again, just guessing)

121 posted on 04/05/2003 5:30:03 PM PST by FBD (May God bless our troops, and all coalition forces!)
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To: ArneFufkin
The interview was conducted by one of Dan Rather's doubles from the San Diego Zoo. The same Chimp sat in for Dan on the talk shows. The Network was afraid Dan would screw it up.
122 posted on 04/05/2003 5:31:21 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell ( The liberal left are using weapons of mass deception.)
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To: meyer
That would make the MOAB a magic bomb-creating nothing from less than nothing.
123 posted on 04/05/2003 5:34:31 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell ( The liberal left are using weapons of mass deception.)
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To: cicero's_son
I don't think Cardinal said HE was a Christian, either.
124 posted on 04/05/2003 5:41:02 PM PST by NCLaw441
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To: SHKMAN1212
Now who is going to go on TV and pretend to be Saddam

Chemical Ali
Saddam?

125 posted on 04/05/2003 5:47:19 PM PST by Spunky
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To: Wolfstar
He looks more like Saddam Hussein than TV Saddam does

Just had a thought--Maybe it was Ali who was televised walking the streets recently. They got a lock on him...and boom.

126 posted on 04/05/2003 5:50:35 PM PST by NautiNurse (Michael Moore: Trolling for Concubine)
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To: All
I want this guy to catch one next.


127 posted on 04/05/2003 5:53:22 PM PST by McGruff (All Your Baghdads Are Belong To US.)
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To: vbmoneyspender
Ali needs a new nickname. How 'bout Combustible Ali.

How about Dead Ali.

128 posted on 04/05/2003 5:56:28 PM PST by Euro-American Scum
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To: oceanview
Certain of our media proclaim this man dead so they can then say, oh the BUSH administration didn't kill him after all.
129 posted on 04/05/2003 5:57:49 PM PST by OldFriend (without the brave, there would be no land of the free)
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To: floriduh voter
Isn't he a cousin or brother of saddam? Oops, I mean, wasn't he?

Dummy me. I always thought he was a cousin or brother of Tommy Daschole.

130 posted on 04/05/2003 5:58:14 PM PST by Euro-American Scum
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To: doug from upland
but not the children. Why do you hope for that?

So he has no heirs left that could become politicians and reestablish another dictatorship.

131 posted on 04/05/2003 6:03:06 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Time to bomb Saddam!)
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To: ErnBatavia
And a bunker-buster couldn't destroy those coke bottle glasses he wears

ROLF!

132 posted on 04/05/2003 6:16:09 PM PST by Gasshog (eyes open, mouth too! tough!)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Children are not responsible for the sins of their father.
133 posted on 04/05/2003 6:17:30 PM PST by doug from upland (Send Al Sharpton 5 bucks so he can wreak havoc in his party)
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To: SHKMAN1212
I won't believe it til I see it! Too many of these reports come back negative. Besides, I don't believe he would be at any residence that is known.
134 posted on 04/05/2003 6:20:21 PM PST by whadizit
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To: FBD
These guys are tougher to hurt than Monty Python's Black Knight. Seems like we sure are killing them over and over.
135 posted on 04/05/2003 6:35:05 PM PST by Lawgvr1955 (Never draw to an inside straight)
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To: SHKMAN1212
We heard this 10 days ago....
136 posted on 04/05/2003 6:55:19 PM PST by Lunatic Fringe (When news breaks, we fix it!)
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To: McGruff
Well maybe, but how about considering keeping him around as a sort of "MC" at the upcoming USO Show at Baghdad International?

Bob's got a career in show bidness.

137 posted on 04/05/2003 6:59:05 PM PST by battlegearboat (I'm almost done.)
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To: SHKMAN1212
Can I safely call him "Charcoal Ali" now?
138 posted on 04/05/2003 7:00:29 PM PST by Prince Charles
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To: cardinal4
"I have taken a lot of heat on this thread over his kids. But you are right, if they have learned at an early age to be like their hateful parents, how do you turn that around?"

Some of the people on the thread are more than a bit naive...

Quite frankly, like most other children, odds are that Chemical Ali's kids looked up their daddy -- proud of their old man for whatever he did, and saw him as a mentor who was doing his job. If anyone thinks otherwise, then explain why not?

I defy anyone here to welcome as ,your neighbor, Mrs. Chemical Ali and her "well behaved, normal" children.

139 posted on 04/05/2003 7:02:17 PM PST by F16Fighter (Democrats -- The Party of Stalin and Chiraq)
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To: SHKMAN1212
CHEMICAL ALI KILLED IN IRAQ RAID


"HAA-haaaa....!"

140 posted on 04/05/2003 7:11:16 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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