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Iraq
CHOPPER UNIT BLOWS AWAY THUG SQUAD
2003-11-15
EFL & Rubbing it in your face fun!
A U.S. helicopter crew wiped out a bunch of assclowns pro-Saddam artillery team that was about to launch a massive missile attack on an American base yesterday as GIs continued their blistering counter-offensive in Iraq.
The New York Post sure knows how to write hardcore erotica!
The AH-64 Apache helicopter attack in Saddam Hussein’s hometown Tikrit killed seven terrorist fighters and led to the discovery of a huge stockpile of 900 missiles in nearby bunkers, the military said.
What I really like is that the NYP does not call them ‘militants’ or ‘counter insurgents’. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.
The strike was part of an operation code named Ivy Cyclone, one of several [blistering] counterattacks launched by U.S. forces yesterday in an aggressive campaign to beat back terrorist attacks and reclaim the initiative following the bloodiest period in post-war Iraq. In Baghdad, the Army’s 1st Armored Division hit five Ba’athist targets with artillery fire and rockets launched from Air Force C-130 gunships last night on the third day of Operation Iron Hammer.
Everytime I hear about a C-130 gunship working the crowd, I get goose bumbs.
Posted by:Dragon Fly

#6  Maybe it's time that someone started keeping an Unofficial Body Count of Iraqi bad guys.
Posted by: John Bragg   2003-11-15 6:58:42 PM  

#5  rockets launched from Air Force C-130 gunship

Is this something new? I mean hell they got everything else... why not a few FFARs.
Posted by: Shipman   2003-11-15 5:10:47 PM  

#4  Those 900 missiles? Isn't that what they are using to take down our helicopters, including the two today? That was a great hunt!
Posted by: Sherry   2003-11-15 4:15:00 PM  

#3  New York Post is the fucking bomb
Posted by: g wiz   2003-11-15 3:38:27 PM  

#2  " Sir, ducks sighted at 9 o'clock. Awaiting permission to engage. "
" Permission granted. Just save some roasted duck for the Intel boys, captain. "
Posted by: Charles   2003-11-15 2:31:06 PM  

#1  A U.S. helicopter crew wiped out a bunch of assclowns pro-Saddam artillery team that was about to launch a massive missile attack on an American base yesterday as GIs continued their blistering counter-offensive in Iraq.

This is what I want to hear. Not "captured", but killed. Where Saddam and his sympathizers are concerned, eliminating them entirely prevents other problems from cropping up later.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-11-15 1:56:43 PM  

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