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2004-06-20 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-06-20 6:53:13 PM|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If we really want to take Al Zarqawi, then we are going to have to take collateral casualties. I am sure that he surrounds himself with civilians: women, children, baby ducks, et al. This is the same situation as what Yassin did to Israel. We are going to have to announce that Al Z is a hazard to anyone's health that surrounds him. He must become a liability, rather than an asset. If we want him, we are going to have to be hard-nosed to get him, and take the heat afterword. Ball is in our court.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-20 9:55:36 PM|| 2004-06-20 9:55:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Going after AlZ and Fallujah? Is it Christmas, already? And me without having done any shopping...

The last 2 sentences, about the AlZ aide Aref - needs some, uh, clarification... So French agents captured him in Syria, and then convinced Baby Assad to extradite him to France? Is that the untangled truth? Or is the reporter from PakiWakiLand? I can shout, don't hear you! Sheesh, what a mess.

Posted by .com 2004-06-20 10:10:20 PM|| [http://www.amble.com/images/snipercat.jpg] 2004-06-20 10:10:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 For some reason, I get the silly picture in my head of some Marine Colonel, having received a very explicit order to that effect, telling his Battalion to "Go Forth my children, go forth into Fallujah, and kill, kill for Kaliii!"

Okay, I did say that it was silly. Maybe it was the "Laughing Marines on Drugs" story a while back.

Posted by Anonymous5307 2004-06-20 10:30:00 PM|| 2004-06-20 10:30:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting, if lurid, stuff from my usually reliable source in Iraq. Word has it that coalition forces have learned of a coordinated insurgent plan for a series of massive go-for-broke suicide attack on the day of the handover or immediately before.
In a joint plan by all the various insurgent and terrorist factions, thousands of Tater-heads, Saddamites, and freelance jihadis of all stripes will launch themselves at US troops and installations in an all-out human wave assault. The objective will be to disrupt the handover, kill several hundred US troops in one day and, if possible, to completely overrun one or more major installations.
It will be the largest suicide attack since the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, and possibly the largest ever in one day.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-06-21 10:27:32 PM|| 2004-06-21 10:27:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 lesson? roadblocks with concrete barriers everywhere, shoot first

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-21 10:38:12 PM|| 2004-06-21 10:38:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Will they be preparing a special collectors edition of the video?

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-06-21 10:45:57 PM|| 2004-06-21 10:45:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#7
It will be the largest suicide attack since the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, and possibly the largest ever in one day.

Have they been told how that ended?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-06-21 10:51:06 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-06-21 10:51:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 SSSSShhhhhhhhh

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-21 10:59:59 PM|| 2004-06-21 10:59:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Great - gather them up where we can kill them much more quickly than hunting them down like rabbits.

Problem for them is that they are unaware of our surviellance capabilities - amny times we do no act when we could have, trust me on that. Additionally, the larger an op, the more likely serious leaks will compromise it. If you bring the weapons and ammo in with the people, coordinating the assault becomes very hard - every pone of these cowboys will go at thier own pace. If you stockpile, and then bring the people in earlier, sufficient numbers and weaponry to overrun a major installation will stand out quite readily.

Plus, assaulting a modern, dug-in US military unit, with air support and artillery woudl prove to be a different animal that the Muj had never seen before.

The shackles coming off of the King of Battles is enough to turn the assault in itself - 155mm FASCAM-AP (As opposed to AT) for instant area denial, smoke (we have thermals and they do not), and good ol' HE/Frag. And you can bet that they have the targerst registered already for differing scenarios, and its dialed in to the fire control computers, all set up for the 48hr 400m x 400m blocking minefields right where they need them.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-06-21 11:11:12 PM|| 2004-06-21 11:11:12 PM|| Front Page Top

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