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2011-04-17 Africa North
Qaddafis forces bombard Misrata for 3rd day
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Posted by Fred 2011-04-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 For Old Spook
Thank you for your service from an ex "Wallmeister".
Posted by European Conservative 2011-04-17 00:22||   2011-04-17 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 fired at least 100 Grad rockets into Misrata on Saturday

Which is, I'm sure everybody will agree, is a terrible crime against humanity.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-04-17 02:13||   2011-04-17 02:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Why stop at one hundred.
Posted by Dave UK 2011-04-17 05:34||   2011-04-17 05:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, it was probably 5 - 6 grads, DUK, and the number 100 comes from local sources (1,2,3, many [= 100]).
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-04-17 06:45||   2011-04-17 06:45|| Front Page Top

#5 A first class functioning system can fire 40-50 rockets in a 30 minutes or so and then it has to take time out to reload.

They probably have a less than fully functional system so unless they have more than one launcher, its reasonable to suspect a dozen or so rockets hit at once and it seemed to be a hundred.
Posted by Lord Garth 2011-04-17 09:42||   2011-04-17 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 "They fired Grads at an industrial area this morning, at least one hundred rockets were fired.

Destroying domestic industry. Something even Obama can sit back and feel good about.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-04-17 10:15||   2011-04-17 10:15|| Front Page Top

#7 For years I've heard that the Arab street seethes because the Great and not-so-great Satan(s) were propping up their vicious dictators.

Then I heard the Arab street seethed because we took down vicious dictator Saddam, in an invasion.

So what do they make of us taking on another transvestite brutal dictator and losing?
Posted by regular joe 2011-04-17 11:38||   2011-04-17 11:38|| Front Page Top

#8 So what do they make of us taking on another transvestite brutal dictator and losing?

They'll seeth. That's all they know how to do.
Posted by Secret Asian Man 2011-04-17 13:54||   2011-04-17 13:54|| Front Page Top

#9 That is the imputus in all this to begin with, duplicitus rational, history by the winners, so forth. The losers will say they won no matter what, so what ya gotta do is kick ass so hard they sound like Wimp Lo.

Jean Claude Van Damme looked pretty in the movies, but after he got his ass flat kicked in a bar they stopped showing his movies. I think there is a lesson there for the cultivated people of matters.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-04-17 16:02||   2011-04-17 16:02|| Front Page Top

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