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Iraq
Mortar shell wounds three people
2006-05-23
A mortar shell fired by suspected insurgents crashed into a populated village in the governorate of Dyali northeast of the Iraqi capital wounding three civilians, police said on Monday. The police said the civilians who were wounded in Al-Rasoul village were transported to hospital.

In the nearby village of Baldrouz, police located and defused a bomb, planted in Al-Asri district. Armed insurgents, including radical gunmen advocating Islamic slogans and remnants of the ousted Baath regime, have been waging a violent warfare against the allies-backed authorities since ouster of Saddam's Hussein regime in 2003. The ongoing violence has claimed heavy casualties and damage.
Posted by:Fred

#11  about it TW
Posted by: ed   2006-05-23 22:28  

#10  Don't just talk about TW. Bring your own replica.
Posted by: ed   2006-05-23 22:28  

#9  Rantburg University, Steve. There's no such thing as too much obscure information. Think of what a hit I'll be at the next dinner party when I casually mention that bit about WWI Toby mortars in passing. *delighted giggle*
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-05-23 22:25  

#8  "I guess that's more info than anyone wanted."
Wrong steve *wrings hands with glee*
Posted by: weaponophile   2006-05-23 18:35  

#7  cool pix Steve, thx
Posted by: Frank G   2006-05-23 18:12  

#6  looks....like less than GPS accuracy LOL
Posted by: Frank G   2006-05-23 18:00  

#5  Here and here are more pictures, this time it's called a "French aerial torpedo about to be fired from a trench (GWS)"

I guess that's more info than anyone wanted.
Posted by: Steve   2006-05-23 17:59  

#4  Think I was right. Picture of what looks like same beast here.

The re-birth of the mortar caught the French army entirely by surprise, as it did the British. At least the French could scramble to put into use ancient century-old Napoleonic mortars (referred to by the British as Toby mortars in honour of the British officer who had been struck with the idea of securing such old stockpiles of the weapon from the French).
Posted by: Steve   2006-05-23 17:52  

#3  Pretty sure it's a early WW1 French mortar.
Posted by: Steve   2006-05-23 17:47  

#2  Rockets & horse drawn wagons? Got to be the Eastern Front.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-05-23 16:13  

#1  What an ugly looking weapon. Looks like the something the CSA secret technology labs deep in the Blue Ridge came up with in 1865 just in time for the fall of Richmond.

Boer War Era? WWI?
Posted by: 6   2006-05-23 16:02  

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