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| Iraq |
| JDAM's 8 - Terrs 0 |
| 2007-02-09 |
| BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. airstrike killed eight suspected terrorists and destroyed a building south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday. The attack occurred Thursday night in Arab Jabour, a mostly Sunni Muslim suburb south of Baghdad. American troops came under "heavy enemy fire during a raid targeting al-Qaida in Iraq terrorists and foreign fighter facilitators," the U.S. military said in a statement. Coalition aircraft swooped in, dropping precision bombs on a building where eight suspects had barricaded themselves, the statement said. All eight were killed. No U.S. forces or Iraqi civilians were injured in the attack, the military said. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #5 Breaking : smart bomb outwits dumb terrs. Movie at 11. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-02-09 14:13 |
| #4 John...bad news for 576 virgins, too. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-02-09 10:07 |
| #3 JDAMs are one of the those good news, bad news stories--good news for the good guys, bad news for the jihadis. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-02-09 09:12 |
| #2 Those dumb terrorists brought rifles to a JDAM fight. |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2007-02-09 08:34 |
| #1 Whoops! Looks like this is a dupe, although Fred posted the military version, and mine is the Yahoo version, which had the aircraft "swooping". Otherwise, Yahoo pretty much copied the military press release. But they added a touching Reuters photo, probably not re-touched, of a local guy touching the face of a dead teenager from a previous airstrike which reached out and touched seven children and 23 others. No more posting for me, today! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-02-09 06:27 |