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| 60 hard boyz toes up in Fallujah |
| 2004-09-17 |
| U.S. warplanes bombed rebel targets near the restive Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, killing about 60 foreign fighters, the U.S. military said on Friday. Doctors at a Falluja hospital said 16 civilians were killed in an air strike, including women and children. Reuters television images showed bloodied bodies on hospital beds. A statement from the U.S. military said the assault was part of a "precision strike" on an compound used by militants loyal to Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a man Washington says is allied to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. It said approximately 90 foreign fighters were at the compound near the town of Qaryat ar Rufush at the time of the attack, which took place at 9:45 p.m. on Thursday. Three buildings were destroyed and the foreign fighters who escaped the strike fled into Qaryat ar Rufush, it said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 It was just the regular Thursday meeting of the Raccoon Lodge. Yeah, that's what it was. The continuing precision strikes argue that we have some decent intel, whether our own "sneaky snakes" or Iraqis. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-09-17 9:38:04 AM |
| #1 Non precision strikes would be good too. Crack FAC logic applies: On one occasion he pleaded with a crew to drop on a village. "Just go ahead and drop a bomb," he said. "We can't do that, dude," a pilot nicknamed Bait replied, meaning they couldn't just wipe out an entire village. "There haven't been any good guys in that village for years," the Crack FAC argued. |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2004-09-17 3:02:12 AM |