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2004-11-18 Iraq-Jordan
Zarqawi's Fallujah Headquarters Found
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Posted by trailing wife 2004-11-18 1:31:18 PM|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "...a factory for making car bombs that had a Ford Explorer inside with Texas license plates"

food for a thousand conspiracies
Posted by mhw 2004-11-18 2:26:32 PM||   2004-11-18 2:26:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Say..... has anyone ever seen Zarqawi and Bush in the same place at the same time?

Hmmmm.......

/Tinfoil-hat-mode
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-11-18 2:28:06 PM||   2004-11-18 2:28:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Love the garage/moskk motif.
Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-11-18 2:34:09 PM||   2004-11-18 2:34:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 30Wt smudges on the forehead when praying
Posted by Frank G  2004-11-18 2:38:13 PM||   2004-11-18 2:38:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 wouldnt 8 inch shells be for cruisers, BTW?
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-11-18 2:42:48 PM||   2004-11-18 2:42:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, like the Wapo knows the difference between a battleship, a cruiser and a rubber ducky.
Posted by Matt 2004-11-18 2:54:03 PM||   2004-11-18 2:54:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Seems a shame that the bad guys were already dead...that deprived the NY Times of a photo-op.
Posted by Justrand 2004-11-18 3:37:33 PM||   2004-11-18 3:37:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I wonder if they will bulldoze every house on that street. I believe that would be the appropriate thing to do.
Posted by Remoteman 2004-11-18 4:28:29 PM||   2004-11-18 4:28:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 wouldnt 8 inch shells be for cruisers, BTW?

Indeed they would. Of course, we haven't had a gun cruiser in commission for about 30 years, but details are for small minds. Big minds worry about nuance.
Posted by Dreadnought 2004-11-18 4:57:51 PM||   2004-11-18 4:57:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Dreadnought and LH, you beat me to clearing up that 8-in. thing -- but obviously these were for IEDs or vehicle-borne IEDs (at least that's highly likely, as artillery shells are the favorite choice for that mission). My questions: 1) Where TF would they get 8-in naval artillery rounds in Iraq? Wouldn't those have had to be shipped in? 2) Which countries within shoutin' distance of Iraq have ever had cruisers with 8-in batteries? (Turkey? Egypt?) 3) Would the explosive power or other characteristics of an 8-in round (we don't know whether they were HE, armor-piercing, or what) differ substantially from the 155mm HE round that is, I think, the IED staple?

I just thought if there ever a place to ask detailed and absurdly obscure questions such as these, Rantburg is it ....
Posted by Verlaine 2004-11-18 5:45:16 PM||   2004-11-18 5:45:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Seems a shame that the bad guys were already dead...that deprived the NY Times of a photo-op.

Screw the MSM bastards. This story is HUGE-- bigger than a dozen Kevin Sites pseudo-scandals combined. This should lead the news for days. Another reason we need to create our own media to rival and displace the idiotic memes of the MSM.
Posted by lex 2004-11-18 5:58:04 PM||   2004-11-18 5:58:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 If it really was an 8 inch shell, then it was probalby from a Soviet 203mm Self Propelled Gun. They built them up to 406mm (16 inch).
Posted by ed 2004-11-18 6:09:08 PM||   2004-11-18 6:09:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 The ChiComs also produce an 8" gun/howitzer, and US 8" howitzer rounds are not uncommon around the world. Besides, it's the WaPo and the 8" designation may be as "more or less like" the truth as their description of them as "battleship" guns!
Posted by Ralph Tacoma  2004-11-18 9:23:54 PM||   2004-11-18 9:23:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Soldiers hauled out boxes filled with passports and identification cards.

Let's hope we can haul some troublemakers to "undisclosed locations"...

Remember CIA & Military Intel to order your "interrogation supplies" here:

Islamofacist Interrogation Supply Source
Posted by BigEd 2004-11-19 12:00:22 AM||   2004-11-19 12:00:22 AM|| Front Page Top

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