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IED emplacers killed in Mosul (second in four days)

2007-03-15

Multi-National Corps Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070315-08
Mar. 15, 2007

IED emplacers killed in Mosul
Multi-National Division North PAO

MOSUL, Iraq Coalition force members engaged and killed anti-Iraqi forces who were in the act of emplacing an improvised explosive device Monday.

Coalition force members observed two males digging a hole, placing munitions in the hole, and laying wire next to a main road in southeast Mosul.

Coalition helicopters immediately responded and engaged the emplacers with rocket fire. Both AIF were killed before they could detonate their roadside bomb. There were no friendly casualties or damage sustained.

This is the second incident in four days where AIF were caught or killed in the act of employing a roadside bomb against the Iraqi Security Forces, Coalition troops, and the innocent civilians of Mosul.

AIF= All Insurgents F**ked

Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy

#5 New SOP in action, or just a fluke?

Posted by: gromgoru 2007-03-15 23:24

#4 There are, of course, several dirigible observation platforms aloft at Baghdad airport - but I believe they provide warning/tracking of ballistic projectiles, not video of shenanigans at street level. Could be wrong.

One more idea: howz about, when the nitwits get iced like this, we ID them, and pay a little visit to their families (well, actually, detain every male between 17 and 60 in the family, and some from the neighbors as well), have ourselves a real long discussion, just as long as it takes to find out everything about their deceased relative's involvement (contacts, motivations, etc.).

Seems to me one would unravel bad-guy networks (esp. those, as reputed to exist in Iraq, of very flat, dispersed, fairly expedient networks). Also, probably more important (and our biggest failing in Iraq), it supplies INTIMIDATION. There is no political solution in Iraq that does not entail lots and lots of killing and intimidation. Any attempt to reach our goals without these key elements will not just fail, but be an inexcusable waste of lives and a self-inflicted blow to our national interests.

Posted by: Verlaine 2007-03-15 23:10

#3 mooses wants that blimp in a BAD way! lol...

Posted by: RD 2007-03-15 20:00

#2 Anonymoose - you mean something like a UAV.

Posted by: DMFD 2007-03-15 18:19

#1 It is about time that we had high altitude surveillance available for spotting these mugs. Something like a dirigible would be able to observe a very large area, but be too high for casual observation.

It would just appear to the bad guyz that the good guyz have some psychic ability to know when they are making mischief.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-03-15 17:57

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