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2005-05-09 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by ed 2005-05-09 05:56|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hopefully, it's the hammer and anvil approach and the border is thoroughly sealed.

And pursuit is authorized into Syria.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2005-05-09 10:22|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2005-05-09 10:22|| Front Page Top

#2 See Chuck, the border isn't well marked and we lost our GPS stuff back in the desert so we ... just sort of ended up here at these interesting camps. You say they're in Syria??? Well fancy that.

Posted by too true 2005-05-09 10:26|| 2005-05-09 10:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Does this warrant a dancing houris graphic?

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-05-09 11:43|| 2005-05-09 11:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Authorize pursit into Syria, all the way to Damascus.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-05-09 13:41|| 2005-05-09 13:41|| Front Page Top

#5 DUBAI (AFX) - The Al-Qaeda group of Iraq's most-wanted militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi denied a US report on Monday that 75 insurgents had been killed in a sweep near the Syrian border.
'The adorers of the cross claim to have killed 75 Muslims at Al-Qaim. Once more, they are lying, because lying is their religion,' said the statement on an Islamist website, the authenticity of which could not be verified.

Must be hurting them bad. Faster, please!

Posted by Steve 2005-05-09 1:42:31 PM|| 2005-05-09 1:42:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 al-Qaim: the 1426th holiest place in Christendom....heh heh

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-09 13:55|| 2005-05-09 13:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Lol! I'm thinking like Frank's comment, nowadays. I want to turn this whole freakin' thing on its head. "That's all I can stands and I can't stands no more." No more explanations or stats or anything else for the MSM. Nothing. No apologies. It's a war. We will fight it as cleanly as we can, but it's war. Every spokesman in uniform should leave HQ and man a productive station, for a change.

One simple statement, given one time, no questions:
We will kill every last jihadi and jihadi supporter we can lay hands or laser designator on. Period. Whenever. Wherever. No place on this planet is safe haven. Now get the fuck out of Iraq by sunset tomorrow - as supporters you become fair game as night falls. And we own the night.

Posted by .com 2005-05-09 14:37|| 2005-05-09 14:37|| Front Page Top

#8 'The adorers of the cross claim to have killed 75 Muslims at Al-Qaim. Once more, they are lying, because lying is their religion,'

Projection, anyone?

Posted by Raj 2005-05-09 14:48|| 2005-05-09 14:48|| Front Page Top

#9 .com

yes our night vision equipment is good but the IR signature of a person doesn't look so sharp in the summer

more important, our troops are required to obey the parameters set by negotiation between the coalition forces and the Iraqi govt. - we can't drastically change the ROE without them (and btw, the Iraqi SWAT teams have their own ROE which is more 'lenient' than ours)

we could however let it be known that the current ROE are allowing terrorist enablers to evade capture and let the Iraqi parliment take it up

Posted by mhw 2005-05-09 16:03|| 2005-05-09 16:03|| Front Page Top

#10 mhw - I hope you could tell I was being tongue in cheek... I guess my hopefulness shone through a little too much, huh?

It's all about perceived pain and thresholds.

Posted by .com 2005-05-09 16:42|| 2005-05-09 16:42|| Front Page Top

#11 I am surprised no one on Rantburg has noticed where this action is taking place. There is a new article at Google now saying that 100 Terrorists are dead....and that this is taking place in the al-Jazirah Desert. .... part of the al-Jazirah Desert is in SYRIA. Could we be in SYRIA?

Posted by Grins Sluper5274 2005-05-09 16:54|| 2005-05-09 16:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Grins, baby, what makes you think we don't know where this is taking place? This story's been running a couple of days. If you look back on RB you'll see we're on top of it. Al Qaim is an old sore spot for infiltration - as well as being a main point for the smuggler's run which follows the Euphrates all the way to Fallujah. This is where the infamous supposed "wedding party" was bombed.

I've already recommended we obliterate it or give it the Fallujah treatment. Sound like Operation {mumble mumble] is short of wither, but effective enough to have the AlQ weenies shitting their britches. We gotcha covered, bro.

Posted by .com 2005-05-09 17:22|| 2005-05-09 17:22|| Front Page Top

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