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2004-04-22 Iraq-Jordan

Marine snipers have terrified the Iraqi fighters

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Posted by Sherry 2004-04-22 4:31:14 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 That the people involved in the fighting weren't involved in any talks about a cease-fire pretty much made it moot from the get-go.

Posted by eLarson 2004-04-22 4:36:13 PM|| 2004-04-22 4:36:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "They seem to have an affinity for the area around the mosque," said Marine air controller Capt. Roy "Woody" Moore, of Fairfield, Conn., who helped guide the bombs onto their targets Wednesday.

What a coincidence: so do our JDAMs.

Posted by exploding diplomacy 2004-04-22 4:38:20 PM|| 2004-04-22 4:38:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ceasefires. Negotiations. Pfeh. It's sad to watch the clueless, so desperate to try to rehab or negotiate with insane and vicious barbarians - whether it's a gang-raised crack dealer or a hardened madrassah-trained jihadi. These "people" don't subscribe to the same ruleset, so all the talking is at cross-purposes and the hand-wringing is just wasted motion to salve the conscious mind - freeing you, finally, to take the action your subconscious settled upon the instant the need arose. Poor misguided social engineers - they must eat lots of Rolaids - and never understand why.

If it's all grown up - and it's broken, well, you're just gonna have to kill it.

Posted by .com 2004-04-22 4:50:19 PM|| 2004-04-22 4:50:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 A translator with the Marines said the singing called residents to "stand up and fight," "join the uprising," and "drive out the infidels."
and
The Marines broadcast their own message that resistance was futile and that Marine snipers ---- whom intelligence reports say have terrified the Iraqi fighters ---- held the insurgents in their sights.
This leads to :
A chant that goes "I hear the virgins calling", "I'm ready for peeled grapes", "Those infidels have me in pieces"

Negotiations my a**

Go marines.

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-22 4:59:42 PM|| 2004-04-22 4:59:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 When an attacking Cobra helicopter took intense fire from the area of another mosque nearby, it fired a Hellfire missile, taking a bite out of the towering minaret.

One can only hope that they finished the job and reduced the mosque to a pile of rubble.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-22 5:08:21 PM|| 2004-04-22 5:08:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Air controllers guided in F-16 fighter jets from the clouds and pointed out an enemy stronghold with a laser beamed from a rooftop more than 1,000 meters away.

Damn. These guys are all going to die. I can't believe they don't know this.

Posted by Cthulhu Akbar 2004-04-22 5:11:10 PM|| 2004-04-22 5:11:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Air controllers guided in F-16 fighter jets...

This is what should be done more often. I hope they level the place before going for the final assault.

Posted by Rafael 2004-04-22 5:51:41 PM|| 2004-04-22 5:51:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 War sucks. I speak from experience.

Would to God I could be young again.

Posted by Michael 2004-04-22 5:59:55 PM|| 2004-04-22 5:59:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Insurgents attacked American positions with ill-aimed mortar and rocket fire throughout the morning and, after a five-hour lull, attacked again with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades during the afternoon prayer time.

Whoa! Aren't these ultra-pious Muslims supposed to be congregated in their mosque at prayer time? Do you mean to say they're afraid of clustering up like that in one of their inviolable holy places?

As if set to accompany their counterattack, insurgents blared militant chants from a mosque set just behind the line of fighting.

Geez, a call to arms like any other propaganda center. Guess that's not a mosque after all.

[out of sequence] When an attacking Cobra helicopter took intense fire from the area of another mosque nearby, it fired a Hellfire missile, taking a bite out of the towering minaret.

There goes the high ground.

Marine snipers ---- whom intelligence reports say have terrified the Iraqi fighters ---- held the insurgents in their sights.

Why are the insurgents so terrified? After all, our incompetent snipers have been slaughtering "civilians" left and right, not them. Do you mean to say that some of those "civilians" were actually fighters? Well then, maybe it is about time they were more than little terrified.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-22 6:09:28 PM|| 2004-04-22 6:09:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I was aborn to soon and joined the wrong force. Get 19 for me and Tennessee.

Posted by Sgt York 2004-04-22 6:11:58 PM|| 2004-04-22 6:11:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Question, would napalm fry the bad guys and suck the air out of the Mosque without doing much damage except blackening the masonary? Or would the pressure wave knock down walls and such?

Seems a nice way to respect the mosque and wipe out the bad guys it the building doesn't get knocked over in the process. Certainly we could cook up some napalm quick enough if we had the need.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-04-22 6:12:23 PM|| 2004-04-22 6:12:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I can't wait for the movie about this battle...We have yet to hear a complete tactical play by play, but I think the role of the marine sniper has to be a serious bummer on the other side of the football. Round the clock attrition of command, control and resupply.

Posted by Capsu78 2004-04-22 6:16:45 PM|| 2004-04-22 6:16:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Question, would napalm fry the bad guys and suck the air out of the Mosque without doing much damage except blackening the masonary? Or would the pressure wave knock down walls and such?

It's why we invented neutron bombs.

I'm wondering if there's some way of dropping a large cryogenic tank of nitrogen with a dispersal charge and simply suffocating the idjits.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-22 6:37:32 PM|| 2004-04-22 6:37:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 War sucks, so does killing bad guys even when they deserve it. (Especially up close and personal).

Its those things I did and was glad to have done, but will be even more glad to not have to do it again.

And I hope to God that Bush & company finish it this time out, and dont leave my kids to finish the job.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-04-22 6:42:13 PM|| 2004-04-22 6:42:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 It was decided by the International Community that Napalm and flame weapons were frowned upon after Vietnam, ruprecht.

I personally have no problem with it. Though, I do have a few words of advice for Sadr and his Tater Tots.

"Don't fear the night.
Fear what hunts the night!"

Posted by Jack Deth 2004-04-22 6:43:18 PM|| 2004-04-22 6:43:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Get 'em boys ;)

These bastards, who use kids and their property, what we call wives here in the civilised world, to hide behind, deserve every thing they are gonna get from the Marines. You all see what the jihadis do around the world, these Iraqi jihadis are no different.
F 'em up.
These throat-slitting, hand amputating, women-stoning, church burning, jew-killing, gang raping, train bombing, killers of kindergartners will get what they deserve, I hope they suffer the way their 'brothers' make people suffer around the world. Send 'em to hell, where they belong.

Posted by TS 2004-04-22 7:06:53 PM|| 2004-04-22 7:06:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 It's decaf for you from now on, TS!

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-22 7:14:33 PM|| 2004-04-22 7:14:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Zenster, lol
I feel like I had a bonafide rant with that one. :-)

Posted by TS 2004-04-22 7:50:46 PM|| 2004-04-22 7:50:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 "And I hope to God that Bush & company finish it this time out, and dont leave my kids to finish the job."

Amen to that, the bottom line of this whole situation.

Posted by docob 2004-04-22 8:25:06 PM|| 2004-04-22 8:25:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 If a bird flew from china carrying a grain of sand and dropped it on the Rocky Mountains, over and over and over again, until the Rocky Mountains were worn away from the abrasiveness of the sand........ That is not a drop in the bucket, compared to the length of time those islamic barbarians will spend in a REAL, PHYSICAL, BURNING, TORTUROUS, HELL.

Posted by Halfass Pete 2004-04-22 9:03:54 PM|| 2004-04-22 9:03:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Feel better,TS?

Good.

That is one of the benifits of using FAE ordinance,what structures are not destroyed,the blast wave will suck the O2 right out of the air.

Posted by raptor 2004-04-22 10:23:26 PM|| 2004-04-22 10:23:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 An IWPR reporter went inside of Fallujah. His report indicates that the mosques maybe the distribution points for food to the people that stayed.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-22 10:56:21 PM|| 2004-04-22 10:56:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 and ammo?

Posted by Frank G 2004-04-22 11:09:19 PM|| 2004-04-22 11:09:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 If they'll hide weapons and seek safety, in schools, among children...they'll hide weapons, among food for the hungry, inside a mosque.

Posted by Halfass Pete 2004-04-22 11:14:14 PM|| 2004-04-22 11:14:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 The IWPR reporter Wisam al-Jaff, who is a trainee?
Wonder if trainee means someone they found on the streets of Iraq and paid to go into Fallujah or say he did.

Posted by TS 2004-04-22 11:19:38 PM|| 2004-04-22 11:19:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Jack Deth, I'm sure the Islamic nations would approve of Napalm if it would preserve such a Holy Mosque.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-04-22 11:53:12 PM|| 2004-04-22 11:53:12 PM|| Front Page Top

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